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Microsoft is releasing a Windows Live toolkit for Visual Studio into beta in the next couple of months. Think it will help adoption? Microsoft to integrate Windows Live tools into Visual Studio
By default the Code Snippet Manager in Visual Studio 2005 should appear directly under the Tools menu. This is the second install I have noticed that it wasn't there. Not sure what the combination is that is keeping it from being there by default, but if this happens to you restoring it is simple. Go to Tools -> Customize Select the Commands tab Select Tools Drag the Code Snippets Manager.. from Command up to the Tools menu
eWeek has put together a nice slide show, including screen shots, of the top 25 projects on CodePlex based on activity. This would be a nice feature for CodePlex to browse based on screen shots or other project contributed images instead of just a list mode
I'll assume many of you reading this at least know what The .NET Show is. Well, after 7 years its over. Their announcement post doesn't really explain why. Ratings? I never understood why this show didn't transition into a podcast. You always had to go download each episode manually. Or did I just miss something
Visual Studio has this annoying habit of expanding the solution folder tree, especially when synchronizing with Visual SourceSafe. Even without that problem I sometimes find myself with many expanded tree nodes in the Solution Explorer and I want a quick way to collapse them all. So I searched for a macro based solution to the problem and came up with the VS.Net Macro: Collapse All from Captain LoadTest. This macro was not designed to collapse a non-expanded folder's sub items. So I made a few quick...
Microsoft's Enterprise Library version 3 is now available. The two big new features are: Validation Application Block - Developers can use this application block to create validation rules for business objects that can be used across different layers of their applications. Policy Injection Application Block - Developers can use this application block to implement interception policies that can be used to streamline the implementation of common features, such as logging, caching, exception handling,...
The research channel has a 3.5 hour video on designing .NET class libraries by Krzysztof Cwalina the program manager for the .NET Framework team. This class presents best practices for designing frameworks that are reusable object-oriented libraries. The guidelines are applicable to frameworks ranging in size and in their scale of reuse from large system frameworks to small components shared among several applications. They started as a small set of naming and design conventions, but have been enhanced,...
This article show how to create a self registering COM interop layer for your .NET code that can be called from JavaScript in a Vista Sidebar gadget. Read .NET Interop for Gadgets
Microsoft has launched a new site, Beginner Developer Learning Center. This adds to, but does not replace, the Express sites and Coding4Fun. Much of the content seems to be copied from other Microsoft sources. However it has been put together in a very clear, step-by-step, learning path to get started. Overall, it looks like Microsoft has done a good job organizing the information. Their target audience, if you judge by the photos, would seem to be kids. And this will probably turn some people away...
I found a post by Sean Deasy that lists the 5 podcasts every developer should listen to: Hanselminutes .NET Rocks! ArCast Polymorphic Podcast ASP.NET Podcast Here is what I think of each of them. Hanselminutes is tied with .NET Rocks for the best of the bunch. Scott Hanselman covers interesting topics, not always related to .NET, that are short and to the point. I think the show would flow a little better with Carl Franklin. .NET Rocks has the best guests and usually covers interesting topics. It's...
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