I'm in the middle of writing an extender provider for something I need and I came across a pain-in-the-ass scenario. Extender providers, like controls, run at design time as well as run time. I needed to debug something in one of my set-accessor methods so I put in something like this:
if ctl.Name = "controlName" then stop
Man, all hell broke lose. VS2008 does not like this one bit - it IMMEDIATELY gives you a window telling you that it found a user break point and needs to close. From this point forward you cannot re-open that project. I tried opening that file in notepad and removing that code since obviously VS was trying to compile it but that did not help. I ended up renaming the file then opening my project. Then I clicked on the "Show all files" button in the property browser, brought up the culprit file, comfirmed the code was fine, right-clicked and selected "include in project". Then I was OK.
I can see why VS doesn't like this, but why the hell can't it give us a recovery option !
Well, it's been about 10 weeks since I launched the SteelBlue Site's store-front and the official release of CodeBreeze. Sales have been decent considering I haven't had time to do any marketing. If you're reading this and you're one of my customers, thank you for your business. All the comments I've received from my customers have exceeded any of my expectations on what people would think of the product.
On the 12th of January, I'm sponsoring a code-camp in Philly where I plan to give away a couple of licenses as well as discount coupons to all attendees. CodeBreeze is on release 1.0.0086 currently and contains several enhancements specifically requested by my users. CodeBreeze 1.1 is under final development stages and will include some amazing new features.
For those of you who have not seen it yet, I recorded a DNR-TV show demoing the product in its entirety. The product was in release 1.0.0079 when I recorded the show so there have been several new features put in since then; but the release notes describe all.
CodeBreeze can be obtained at www.steelbluesolutions.com, or you can contact me directly if you are looking for enterprise-level licensing.
Thanks again to all and a happy new year to everyone.