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Generating Enums From Database Tables
I posted earlier about how to use enums in LINQ To SQL , and I spoke about why I think enums are useful. The only problem with this approach was that you had to create the enums by hand, even if you had the same data sitting in a lookup table. If you were at my recent Code Generation with T4 Chalk 'n Talk at Tech Ed South Africa, you would have seen me generate enums automatically from the database, which is what we're going to do below. Note: If you're not familiar at all with T4, check...
Visual Studio eXtensibility (VSX) Video - How Do I: Add Intellisense to a Language Service?
In this video, I cover how to add Intellisense functionality to your custom language service . The video covers Statement/Word Completion and QuickInfo. I can see this coming to a LOLCode Language Service near you! Here's a screen shot: Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Visual Studio eXtensibility (VSX) Video - How Do I: Work With Other Combo Box Types?
I've been a bit bogged down, so I haven't noticed some of the recent Visual Studio eXtensibility (VSX) How Do I videos going live. I see that How Do I: Work With Other Combo Box Types? is now available. It's a follow on to an earlier video which covered adding a standard combo box, and it includes adding an Indexed Combo, a Most-Recently Used (MRU) Combo (like the Find combo in Visual Studio) and a Dynamic Combo (Like the Zoom combo in most PDF viewers). Here's a screenshot: Share...
Visual Studio eXtensibility (VSX) Video - How Do I: Add A Dialog Page to Configure My VSPackage?
This week's Visual Studio eXtensibility (VSX) video is up. It covers adding a dialog page to configure your Visual Studio Integration Packages . It does this by adding a section into the Tool..Options window. Below is a screenshot: Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) Video - How Do I: Add Commands and Controls Into the Visual Studio IDE?
This week's VSX video is on adding commands and controls into the Visual Studio environment . It's a modified version of the VS 2005 version of the video that was up on the site before, more tailored around Visual Studio 2008, including using VSCT files for the command placement. Here's a screenshot: Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!