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VS10 and multi monitors
A while back I asked about the ideal IDE and one thingf that came up was multi monitor support, it seems the cool cats in the VS10 team where listening and in beta 1 of VS10 they have added that support. Scott Gu has a post that shows it off , lets have...
Posted: Sep 04 2009, 10:07 PM by andrewstopford | with no comments
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VS10 Refactors
VS10 has added code refactoring support and I'm interested to learn a couple of things, would you find them useful (hopefully scotttgu will add VS10 refactoring to his series ), would you use them over R#, would you want the ability to create your own...
Posted: Sep 04 2009, 10:00 PM by andrewstopford | with 5 comment(s)
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NUnit 2.5 RTM
Charlie and the NUnit team have been working hard on NUnit 2.5 and over the last weekend the NUnit 2.5 RTM was released , a huge kudos to Charlie and the team on getting this out. NUnit 2.5 has loads of new goodies , parameterized tests (like MbUnit)...
Posted: May 05 2009, 11:00 PM by andrewstopford | with 2 comment(s)
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BDD with RSpec\Cucumber\IronRuby.
A great deal of debate has been going on about Alt.NET, what it means, what it does etc. For me the concept means to learn something new and not just in the camp that is my bread and butter but in any sphere of our industry. The one place I have been...
MbUnit 3 RTM
MbUnit 3 has been a long, long labour. It started around early fall of 2007 and under Jeff had grown and grown into todays final release. Along the way Gallio was born which as a Test Automation Platform this not only acts as the platform for MbUnit 3...
Posted: Apr 02 2009, 10:34 PM by andrewstopford | with 5 comment(s)
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VS10 and OSS
Jason Zander, GM of Visual Studio gave an interview on the reg where he talks about OSS and VS10. Putting aside any license issues what I am keen to learn about is the kinds of existing projects that you would want to see embrace this from the current...
Posted: Feb 27 2009, 12:15 AM by andrewstopford | with 1 comment(s)
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StyleCop for R# goes RC
Howard has announced that the StyleCop addon for ReSharper has reached RC .
VS10 new UI
The VS10 UI is taking shape , it still looks very much like the UI in the PDC build but with some tweaks. Multi-screen support, the screen shot does not show how it works in action but the things you want\need in this you should start shouting about....
Posted: Feb 24 2009, 08:51 PM by andrewstopford | with 3 comment(s)
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Does the .NET community need an Eclipse?
I can't help but admire Eclipse, at its roots it just a shell that you can adjust at will to make the editor what ever you want. From this has sprung a rich eco system with ready packaged editor tweaked downloads for all your coding needs. In it's native...
Posted: Dec 29 2008, 10:47 PM by andrewstopford | with 9 comment(s)
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GUI toolkits
I do wonder why there are not many opensource winform projects and I am starting to wonder if its down to GUI components. The default winform GUI components are good enough for basic interfaces but for something more complex your faced with a long walk...
Posted: Dec 29 2008, 08:43 PM by andrewstopford | with 4 comment(s)
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