February 2008 - Posts

Cool in Visual Studio 2008 #3 - Automatic Properties
C# 3.0 comes with this new compiler feature called "automatic properties". This is so useful (to reduce code written) that you wonder why nobody thought of this before. Instead of this: 1: public class CurrencyOld 2: { 3: #region Members 4: Read More...
Posted 22 February 08 06:39 by hgr | 1 Comments   
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Cool in Visual Studio 2008 #2 - Code Analysis and Generated Code
Microsoft's code generators (the WCF service proxy generator) insist in not adhering even to the most basic code analysis rules (naming for example). Since we enforce a bunch of code analysis rules on our code, in Visual Studio 2005 it was very common Read More...
Posted 18 February 08 05:19 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Cool in Visual Studio 2008 #1 - Public Resources
Now that the "saga" of migrating to Visual Studio 2008 is gone, it's time to enjoy the new features. The first little thing that I just noticed is this ability to change the "access modifier" in resource files: This makes ResXFileCodeGenerator Read More...
Posted 18 February 08 04:07 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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AssemblyResolve and Visual Studio 2008
Beware of the following bug in Visual Studio 2008 using the AppDomain's AssemblyResolve event: AppDomain.AssemblyResolve Bug Apparently this event is not always fired when the code is hosted in Visual Studio 2008 (for add-ins for example). This works(ed) Read More...
Posted 08 February 08 04:36 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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GhostDoc and Visual Studio 2008
The version of GhostDoc for Visual Studio 2008 is available here: http://www.roland-weigelt.de/ghostdoc/ Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 04:58 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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DSL Tools and Visual Studio 2008
If you're using the DSL Tools there are 2 important steps to take care of. First, you'll need to install the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 . This will install the DSL Tools on your machine. Second, very important, before even trying to open any DSL solution, Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 04:45 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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ResXFileCodeGeneratorEx for Visual Studio 2008
There is a recent version of this tool that is compatible with Visual Studio 2008. You can download it here: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/ResXFileCodeGeneratorEx.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 03:36 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Moving to Visual Studio 2008
Today we're moving to Visual Studio 2008. This means updating Team Foundation Server and all the other satellite tools (code policies, add-ins, etc.) in the environment. First impression. They say that Visual Studio 2008 is a number of times faster than Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 03:34 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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