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I haven't even had Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 for more than a day and I've found a compiler bug already. My Compact Framework 2.0 project compiled just fine under Visual Studio 2005 against the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 (build 2.0.6129.0) and it even worked using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1 against the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 Beta 1 (build 3.5.7066.0). So I was quite surprised when I got the following compilation error against the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 Beta 2 (build 3.5.7121.0): error...
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...
I've been asked by a few people recently how to embed and access resources in an assembly. And yes your .NET executable (.exe file) is actually an assembly. First you will need to embed the resource inside the assembly. In Visual Studio this is very easy. Simply select the file in the Solution Explorer and goto the Properties window and set the Build Action to Embedded Resource . Visual Studio will automagically embed the resource into the assembly at build time. The name of the embedded resource...
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...
JetBrains have released version 2.5.2 of their wonderful refactoring and guidance tool ReSharper . I must say that the product has come a long way since they started adding support for Visual Studio 2005. I don't know what I'd do without it. Its great to see that they are already working on support for Orcas and have their ReSharper 3.0 EAP (Early Access Program) available for all to try. One pity is that they don't support Visual Studio Express editions but apparently this is due to...
Looks like I found a bug in the Compact Framework 2.0 SP2 today. I had created a custom attribute derived from the System.Attribute class. There wasn't anything really special about it other than that it had a constructor taking in an enumeration. See the following code snippet: public enum Bar : byte { A, B, C } [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.All)] public sealed class FooAttribute : Attribute { public FooAttribute(Bar bar) { } } [Foo(Bar.A)] class Program { static void Main( string [] args) {...
In Andre 's recent post he asked why Visual Studio generates method stubs that throw a System.Exception with the message "The method or operation is not implemented." instead of throwing the exception System.NotImplementedException . This question has been on my mind before so I decided to Google it and found the following answer in Anson Houston 's blog. We ultimately had to change the code generation, however, because we have a tenet that generated code should always build (at least, when the code...
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!