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Our cries have finally been answered then?
I for one am very happy that the next version of Visual Studio will finally embrace what some of us have been requesting for a long time now – UML adoption. A few months ago I mentioned some stuff that would be in the next version of VS and now that more...
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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Resharper 4 development moving fast now
Last time I checked R# 4 was in Beta, just randomly browsed to the download page for the nightly builds and see that R# 4 is RC3. I must say I am somewhat disappointed with JetBrains with regards to Resharper , we are several months past the release of...
Posted: Jun 10 2008, 10:26 PM by gbarnett | with 2 comment(s)
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Lack of a good free UML designer for .NET, or just in general
I have found that .NET really lacks in this space, needless to say I've been scouring the web for a decent free UML designer. Annoyingly most of the free UML tools have heavy restrictions on there use ( VP , MagicDraw ), oh and Visio is hopeless for complex...
Using F# interactive
Just a quick post on how to get the best out of F# Interactive What is F# interactive? That's a dang good question! Well you can think of F# interactive as being a console application that you type stuff into and its evaluated and based on what you type...
Posted: Sep 19 2007, 05:51 PM by gbarnett | with 1 comment(s)
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Expression Tree Visualizer
I played with this a while back but never blogged about it and thought that maybe I should do now as its a pretty nifty tool. First and foremost, if you have not looked at C# 3.0 or LINQ then here are some articles that I have written on the subject:...
Posted: Sep 15 2007, 08:08 PM by gbarnett | with 6 comment(s)
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Debug proxies for custom collections to aide debugging in Visual Studio
I stumbled across this while working on a small project ( Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) ). Creating a proxy for a type, or whatever really - in my case a collection is really simple and provides some really cool results in the locals window when...
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