December 2005 - Posts

Close of Forums and Hosting Environment (MSDNConnection/ASPXConnection Programs)

It's a pity that MSDN Connection is going to close the forums and server there... Well, maybe it's a good sign of resources management. :)

An important announcement.

20 Dec 2005 

Hello All ,

THANK YOU for your continued support of MSDN Connection! Over the past year, we have received invaluable feedback from many of you about the features and offerings which you would like Microsoft to provide as part of your membership. Your feedback indicated that training and relevant, personalized technical information were the highest priorities you wanted Microsoft to focus on, with other features such as the forums and hosting environment of low importance to you. Based on this, Microsoft is very pleased to announce the addition of two new free benefits to address your requests: A personalised training roadmap, and a personalised homepage complete with feeds from MSDN and Codezone. Please visit your individual country MSDN Connection sites for details.

As part of this new upgrade, we are retiring the current forums and hosting environment found at www.aspxconnection.com on Dec 31, 2005. Your feedback as well as research indicates that less than 1% of our total MSDN Connection subscriber base currently use these features. As such, we believe that our resources would be better used on offerings such as training which you have asked for. If you are a user of the live ASP.NET testing environment and wish to keep your test site code, please take this opportunity to make a backup prior to the end of December deadline.

Thank you very much for your continual feedback on MSDN Connection and we look forward to your continued support.


The MsdnConnection Team.

Colt Kwong

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Code Snippets Manager Hidden in VS2005

This is a very good article about Code Snippet Manager in VSTO V2.0 by Kevin. However, the "Code Snippet Manager" is hidden in VS2005 by default (strange?!), so you can't do anything nor increase your productivity even though you'd read this article.
 
So what we have to do is to customize the menu by adding the Code Snippets Manager to the Tools menu "manually".
 
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VSTO Security and Useful Post

Well said and wholeheartedly agree with Pierre.

As a complement of that blog entry, below are three useful posts by McLean in this topic some times ago:

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Coloring Problem of my eye or VS2005?

 
I'm a color blind (of specific colors), and that's why I'm so eager to learn all "user friendliness and usability" features in VS2005 and all Apps. I have a Web services with a custom namespace like Something.WebServices, the fully qualified class name like Something.WebServices.WsDefault (right pane). However, the source of that asmx file and VS2005 may dislike my naming convention.. so it complaint and just highlight the first 2 characters only (left pane)
 
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