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Yes after they promised earlier this week its finally available for download. See my post over here for all the details. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
It looks like Microsoft has been busy lately as not only do we have a new beta of Visual Studio 2008, but we now have a Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate 1 sporting stability improvements not to mention almost 2000 bug fixes. In addition they have dropped a Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh that includes the same core improvements featured in Silverlight 1.0 RC1. There are some breaking changes which are listed here but nothing that looks too serious. In addition you might want to grab the July ASP.NET...
Another great Visual Studio plugin has been upgraded . This time its the amazing free add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML documentation comments for C# and now once again VB.NET. Go grab a copy for yourself from here . It works wonderfully with Visual Studio 2008 (code-named Orcas) as well. Technorati tags: GhostDoc Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
This is definitely the best refactoring tool that I've ever used for Visual Studio. Personally I turn off their Intellisense overrides and stick to the Visual Studio default ones, but I find value in it spotting coding warnings especially when I'm reviewing code that is not mine. This release adds full support for Visual Basic .NET, code analysis for C# and support for XML and XAML. I've been testing the EAP against Visual Studio 2008 (code-named Orcas) and it works just great. You can...
Have you tried out Microsoft Silverlight under the Visual Studio 2008 (code-named Orcas) Beta 1 Virtual PC image yet? I have an by default it doesn't work as you would expect. For those not familiar with the Windows Server 2003 security default lock-down policies it might be a little too much for you so I thought I'd explain how to make it work. So you start off and create a new Silverlight project and run it. And you get presented with an Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration...
Its great when you provide feedback to Microsoft and it gets heard. In April I suggested that the MSDN Community Distribution program should include beta and CTP content as they are typically the bandwidth killers for developers in countries like South Africa. So the June 2007 CD is coming with a DVD packed with CTP goodness. The June 2007 CD contents includes: 7 tracks for beginners using Visual Studio 2005 Express and covering topics such as object oriented fundamentals, Windows Forms based user...
As a developer that grew up on Delphi 1.0 through Delphi 7.0 I am a little saddened at what has happened to Delphi as a product. I recall the local Borland Delphi 8.0 launch where they touted that Delphi was now a first class citizen on the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and that their product releases would coincide with the framework releases. Unfortunately this didn't seem to materialise as I waited at least a few months for updates to Delphi 8.0 to support service pack 1 of the .NET framework 1...
One of the coolest Visual Studio add-ins that I use is Roland Weigelt 's amazing tool called GhostDoc. Basically it writes guesses your documentation for you based on the context and naming of the member. Its really wicked for generating the boiler-plate documentation as you can then edit it in-place and it won't be modified by GhostDoc. I also find it extremely handy when you add an argument to a method and need to document it, simply press your shortcut key sequence and whalla, its documented...
The XNA team has released a refresh update to XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 and XNA Framework 1.0. You can find the download links here . If any Johannesburg SA Developer .NET community members would like a copy of XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 Refresh on CD, please contact me and we can arrange. The refresh includes the following previously announced changes: XNA Game Studio Express Windows Vista is now fully supported You can now add icons to XNA Game Studio Express Games. Incrementally deployment...
Now if only I was running Windows Vista at work then I'd for sure be adding Simone Chiaretta 's CC.NET Monitor gadget to my Sidebar to monitor my projects on our CruiseControl.NET server that we use for continuous integration. Here is a blurb of what the gadget is all about: The gadgets list all the projects running on the specified server and in the docked view it shows different icons based on the status of the project. In the undocked view it also shows the last built label and the time of the...
The greatest .NET based RSS and news reader has just become open source. Wicked stuff. I've been using the free Omea Reader for quite some time now as I got tired of waiting for RssBandit and Omea Reader is just sooo blindingly fast. Dear Friends, After collecting your opinions and having long internal discussions, we have finally decided to move Omea Pro into the open source domain. This will definitely take some time, but the first step has already been made - from now on, Omea Pro is available...
JetBrains have opened up the ReSharper 2.5 Early Access Program for Visual Studio 2005. I must say I kinda like using ReSharper as it cleans up my code and often points out common mistakes. You can download the latest build here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
True to their word Microsoft has released Beta 1 of the long awaited XNA Game Studio Express for download. Just remember that you will need to download the following unless you haven't already got them installed: Visual C# 2005 Express Edition (434mb ISO) DirectX Software Development Kit - August 2006 (507mb) XNA Game Studio Express Beta 1 (92mb) Also please read the readme before installing as there are some specific installation requirements that need to be met. Oh and it won't work on...
I was getting rather frustrated with Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 (Whidbey) today. All of a sudden the IDE refused to open up, all I'd see is the splash screen and then it would disappear and so would the devenv.exe process. I tried turning on the activity log (devenv /log) and nothing spectacular was revealed. Luckily I stumbled upon a user with a similar issue with the November 2004 CTP ( http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx?feedbackid=c35fe8b9-91d0-4123-943b-a79a33a28435...
JetBrains have updated their beta of Resharper 2.0 and you can get the latest build 205 here . The changelog indicates: Bugfixes New refactorings: Make method non-static, Safe delete I was delighted to notice that build 204 worked with ASP.NET 2.0b2 without all of those annoying exceptions being thrown. One of the most annoying bugs I've filed, where Intellisense and Resharper collide, has reportedly been fixed in build 205. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it...
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