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Intel Parallel Studio - a tool you will want
I've been using the Beta of this tool for a while now and its amazing. Do yourself a favour and download it - http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-sdp-home/ Note: on the webpage it says that there is a non-commercial version, I'm not sure what the extent...
Posted: Mar 18 2009, 05:21 PM by gbarnett
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A good book on Vim commands and a Vim emulator for VS
I've used Vim for quite some time on Windows (yep, not quite a Vim purist...) however, I have never actually read a book on Vim. For those who don't know Vim is an awesome text editor with a really powerful set of commands you can issue via the keyboard...
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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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 released
Download . Some stuff it includes: Some new WPF designer stuff (not sure what though - not really my area) ADO.NET Entity Designer Office MFC stuff (not sure if it also includes TR1, these two were bundled together earlier on in the year) Some improvements...
Posted: Aug 11 2008, 12:26 PM by gbarnett
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Hang on! I've been mentioned on This Week on C9!
I think I'm almost famous. I'm mentioned 10:47 - 12:25. The mentioning was in response to my Visual Studio vNext wish list . Check out the video . Originally posted at http://msmvps.com/blogs/gbarnett . Please post all comments there. Thanks, Granville...
Posted: Aug 09 2008, 01:39 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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Cool new features in Rosario
I was just randomly browsing the web and came across a recent blog post by Giovanni Bassi (translated to English via Google) and saw that he had a few screens of the new functionality in the Visual Studio Team System Rosario April 2008 CTP which included...
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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