My best friend Jeroen van den Bos has just posted a great article about why Visual Studio should be part of Windows . Jeroen and I share a long history together and as we're both ex- demosceners , I fully understand his reasoning and I wholeheartly agree with his point: make Visual Studio.NET Express...

Several people, mostly VB.NET developers, have disagreed (and still do) with my opinion about Edit and Continue (E&C) in a debugger. It's a free world (well, for most people). However let me elaborate some more about why I think Edit and Continue isn't a feature you really should be using and if...

Let me quote myself from a usenet posting I did on Edit & Continue in C#: Afaik, E&C is not planned for vs.net 2004 [C#], and frankly I'm happy about it, because the [C#] devteam can spend that time on other, more valuable features :). (E&C IMHO creates bad debugging styles. Debugging isn...

After the recent sourcecode control debate I started thinking: why on earth are we still using the 'file' as the base unit to store sourcecode in? The whole 'file' concept is pretty bad and limiting when it comes to sourcecode control, code reuse and overall code management. Much better would it be if...

Lately, some people started blogging about a new source control system, Vault. I haven't used it, nor am I intending to do so. The reason is not that I don't like Vault or Eric Sink, but because I don't have problems with what I currently use, Visual SourceSafe (VSS). I personally believe Eric Sink knows...

Yesterday I blogged about a problem ISV's can run into when they are selling .NET class libraries compiled with Visual Studio.NET 2003 to customers using Visual Studio.NET 2002. Today I've found a solution, which seems to be used by other ISV's already, and which solves the problem which caused me to...

Additional Note: I've changed the title of this article. The title is a hint from Robert. While I think blogging is about ventilating personal opinions, I do not feel it's my duty to bring Scott and this site (because the blogs are in the main feed) in trouble. I do however find it pretty weird that...

Simon Mourier wrote a large blog about debugging and sums up several points why debugging is still a PITA and that during all those years debuggers are still well.. harsh and cumbersome. I disagree with most of the points Simon mentions. The command line gnu debugger still causes sweaty palms and horrible...

Yesterday, I saw several blogs about the datalayer phenomenon and how to construct one. Now, there are several roads which lead to a glorifying solution: some muddy, some paved with the finest asphalt. Today, I'd like to talk about one of the more muddy ones: ye olde 'DataSet Route'. When I started with...

According to Soma Somasegar's last post , the following is/isn't supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft's OS which has to replace Windows XP: Visual Basic 6 runtime and IDE . Supported. Visual Studio.NET 2002 . Not supported Visual Studio.NET 2003 . Not supported Visual Studio.NET 2005 . Supported with...