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.NET GeneralOctober 20, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 6:43 PM/EST
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has arrivedUpdated October 21. The Beta 2 is now available to all. MSDN Subscribers can now download Beta 2 of VS2010. Hooray. It will be available to everyone else shortly. The Visual Studio Developer Center has info on downloading and... September 28, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009 9:56 PM/EST
Building an XML file with Google’s Weather and LINQ to XMLI had a need to create an xml file that contains tomorrow's weather forecasts for selection of addresses in a database. I spent way too much time working this out, so thought I would share for the next dev down... August 20, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:24 PM/EST
Exceptions are for Exceptional Events (and they are expensive, too)I learned this mantra from .NET guru, Jeffrey Richter and was able to share it with a client last week. My client had noticed a lot of messages about exceptions in the Visual Studio debug output window. However, the application... August 14, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009 3:57 PM/EST
Remembering XAML's beginnings to help move forward with WPF & SilverlightEarlier this week at the Vermont.NET User Group, local developer Zac Morris who is CTO of the Vermont based WattMetrics, did a presentation on XAML. The title of the presentation was "Don't Fear the XAML: How How Silverlight and WPF... August 12, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 6:53 PM/EST
.NET's New Logo!In case you missed it, .NET has a brand new logo!... July 30, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:05 AM/EST
My favorite little VS2010 feature - ZoomingThe VS2010 code editor has been re-written in WPF which enabled Microsoft to put a lot of fabulous features in there. One that I am very fond of is the zoom which you can get by holding down the CTRL... July 22, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:50 AM/EST
Life without EF or any ORM?This morning I've been adding some new features to an old app that was started in .NET 1.0 then migrated to .NET 2.0 a few years ago. I use VS2008 to work with the app but it continues to target... July 20, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009 12:58 PM/EST
VS2010 Beta 1 - Beware default Build TargetsOne of the new features of VS2010 Beta 1 that I have been exploring is the 1-Click Deployment which I mentioned in another blog post last month. (Visual Studio's Database Publishing Wizard and the new 1-Click Web Deployment) My test... July 8, 2009
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:41 PM/EST
I'm a VB Video InterviewsAt this year's Microsoft MVP Summit, Beth Massi and Kathleen McGrath ran around with a video camera and interviewed a bunch of Visual Basic MVPs, including folks like Deborah Kurata (did you know Deborah has recently (finally!) started blogging?), Ken... July 3, 2009
Friday, July 03, 2009 10:49 AM/EST
VS Debugging - Why did VS stop breaking on Exceptions?Sometimes when we encounter behavior in our dev tools that we don't like, we will drop everything to figure out how to get around it. Sometimes we just accept it and move on. I know that I hate when my... |
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