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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...
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...
Monday, September 07, 2009 12:03 PM/EST
Yes, you CAN run VPC2007SP1 on Windows 7I've just upgraded my development machine from Vista to Windows 7. One app that I rely on is Virtual PC because I have a lot of different environments set up to test various things. Microsoft's VPC pages indicate that you...
Tuesday, September 01, 2009 1:59 PM/EST
Time for another “the value of 3rd party tools” reminderI was thinking about a client I've been working with and his willingness to use third party tools so that he can get the job done faster. I know there was a time when I was one of those people...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:16 AM/EST
What I've been up to with Entity Framework latelyEarlier this year, my book Programming Entity Framework was published by O'Reilly Media. Microsoft continues to evolve this technology and there are a lot of enhancements and additions in the version coming with VS2010 and .NET 4.0, so I continue...
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...
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...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 6:53 PM/EST
.NET's New Logo!In case you missed it, .NET has a brand new logo!...
Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:01 PM/EST
Visual Studio 2010 Beta Fever and Windows 7 RTM FeverWhen it comes to Visual Studio, I have downloaded every alpha, beta, service pack etc. as soon as they have become available. I remember having the VS2005 beta open on one computer and VS2003 on another with the Object...
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... |
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