For copying and pasting source from Visual Studio into my blog posts, I have found CopySourceAsHtml to be very helpful. For those that are not familiar with it, CopySourceAsHtml integrates nicely with Visual Studio by adding a context menu item, which allows you to easily copy source code from your source files. All of the HTML formatting is handled by the add in. As far as I’m aware, there is currently no official release of CopySourceAsHtml for Visual Studio 2010. The good news, however, is that...

With .NET 4.0 right around the corner, I thought it would be cool to download Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and start playing around with the next release of Entity Framework. The initial release of Entity Framework came with a great deal of criticism. To make matters worse, there was a large uproar when it was rumored that Microsoft would be abandoning LINQ to SQL, in favor of Entity Framework. This was because, at the time, many developers felt Entity Framework was an inferior technology to LINQ to...