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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...
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...
So if you are like me and you are really excited about the recent release of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 (the product formerly known by the code-name Orcas) with a Go-Live license and you have been actively using ASP.NET AJAX with the awesome AJAX Control Toolkit , then you will be excited to know that the team has updated build 10618 to include support for VS2008 Beta 2. The major changes include improved designer support which I'm sure will appeal to all. Its all in the blog post here . So go...
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...
Just a quick reminder to all in the Johannesburg area that Mario Lionello will be presenting a talk for SA Developer .NET on the .NET data binding interfaces tomorrow night, Wednesday the 13th of June 2007, at Torque IT in Rivonia. If you haven't done so already, please RSVP here . As always I'm looking forward to the talk as well as meeting up with the community. If anyone still wants copies of the MSDN Community CDs please either bring blanks CDs, an external hard drive, flash disk or a...
Two of the Microsoft ADO.NET team members, Mark Shields and Fabio Valbuena, have put a rather detailed post discussing EntitySQL. EntitySQL has been developed to address the need for programmers to reason, express and write queries in terms of the new Entity Data Model abstractions. One of the cool benefits of EntitySQL is that the developer can truly work in a data provider agnostic fashion as the language merely provides a means of querying the enhanced data model that is provided by the Entity...
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...