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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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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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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...
VS 2008 C++ refactoring...
...well there still is none. I seem to be pressing commands in VS 2008 Win32 projects which would invoke pretty basic refactoring tools in C# and VB.NET but yet C++ has nothing! Now I know the VC guys are working on a parser that will help with the intellisense...
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