Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 are out!

Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Programming | No Comments »

It's official -- a community technology preview of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 are available for download! Also, if you haven't heard, Parallel Extensions have been rolled into ... Read more..

Generating GUIDs for WiX with a Visual Studio Macro

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Posted in Programming | 1 Comment »

Lately I've been doing some work with WiX (Windows Installer XML) and have needed to generate fresh GUIDs frequently. For those infrequent uses, the online UUID Generator worked great, ... Read more..

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM Installation Quirk

Monday, August 11th, 2008 Posted in Programming | No Comments »

After installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM this morning, it seems that Windows Workflow Console Applications aren't a supported project type anymore. Just creating a new workflow console application ... Read more..

.NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Released to RTM!

Monday, August 11th, 2008 Posted in Programming | No Comments »

It looks like .NET 3.5 SP1 has been released today! http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tamir/archive/2008/08/11/net-3-5-sp1-is-rtm-and-available-for-download.aspx Looks like a lot of new things as well as some performance enhancements and bug fixes. Sweet! :) It also looks ... Read more..

CopySourceAsHTML and Windows Live Writer

Saturday, June 21st, 2008 Posted in Server | No Comments »

I try not to "meta-blog", but I recently discovered some neat tools that have really helped me out a lot. The CopySourceAsHTML plugin for Visual Studio is pretty amazing.  ... Read more..

Icons, anyone?

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Programming | No Comments »

This week I've been prototyping a WinForms application and, as typical in most projects, the need arose for some icons to use in my ListViews and TreeViews. Here's a ... Read more..

Visual Studio Add-ins

Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Programming | No Comments »

While Visual Studio 2008 is a fantastic development environment in its own light, it's also possible to install add-ins that further enhance its capabilities. I've been using a number ... Read more..