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Shared Source CLI Google group launched
I’ve just created a Google group based on the SSCLI which you can view and join by going here - http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft-shared-source-cli It supersedes now defunct SSCLI newsgroups from the Microsoft and Yahoo servers which have had all...
Posted: Jan 06 2009, 04:53 AM by gbarnett
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Shared Source CLI (aka Rotor) on Vista
I thought I would share my experiences with Rotor on Vista (x86 and x64). First off Rotor is an open source version of a big chunk of what's in the full commercial .NET that you use on your machine today BUT certain things in Rotor are no where near the...
Posted: Dec 08 2008, 05:00 AM by gbarnett
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Results: Using a dark theme in VS for a week
As I mentioned several days ago I’ve been seeing if a dark theme in VS would help my eyes a little. The short of it is – no, no it didn’t. The major sore point is that if you use a dark theme in VS then you find yourself constantly swapping between dark...
Posted: Sep 26 2008, 06:20 PM by gbarnett
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Experiment: Using a dark theme in VS for a week
I've been highly critical of using dark themes in Visual Studio particularly because the UI of VS is light in its very nature. The combination of the two proving to be an interesting proposition when using VS for large durations of time. I digress. Recently...
Posted: Sep 20 2008, 03:03 PM by gbarnett
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DSA book on 'This Week on C9'
First off thank you to all who have downloaded the first draft of Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated Reference with Examples . At the time of writing this post there have been more than 3200 downloads within around 3 days of it being put up on...
Data Structures and Algorithms book (free) first preview available!
This is a little project that myself and Luca have been working on in our spare (spare) time in the last month or so. The book is no where near complete but we wanted to get it out there now and progress with it in view of the public eye rather than just...
My Visual Studio vNext wish list
My wish list for Visual Studio vNext isn't that long. The things I would like to see in Visual Studio vNext (I'm not that hopeful) are the following: A filtering intellisense members list box Some intelligent suggestions More refactoring options Unfortunately...
Posted: Aug 04 2008, 05:20 AM by gbarnett | with 5 comment(s)
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C++ portability guide
I was looking for this document a while ago and couldn't seem to find it but I stumbled across it moments ago almost by chance. It's the the Mozilla guidance for C++ portability - give it a read here if you are interested in that stuff it is full of subtle...
Posted: Apr 20 2008, 07:16 PM by gbarnett
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Something I let pass me by - VC++ TR1 released
If you have been using the Boost libraries then you will probably not see anything major that's not already in the Boost TR1 library BUT officially VC++ now has a TR1 implementation which is always a good thing. Information about TR1 (and the MFC update...
Visual C++ in Visual Studio 10 will use SQL Server Compact instead of ncb's
For many this will no doubt induce a sigh of relief, we've all been there in moderately sized projects and then happened to see that the ncb file size seems to have grown exponentially - I don't think I've ever met someone who hasn't deleted the ncb file...
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