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Thursday, October 30, 2008 2:01 AM

Extending the Visual Studio 2010 Editor: not exactly a good first impression

I know this is the Visual Studio 2010 *CTP* meaning it's a very early release but still I feel quite a bit disappointed about the experience for developing extensions for the new editor. While other features of Visual Studio 2010 are not mentioned nor...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:10 PM

My Favorite Error Message from Visual Studio 2010 CTP

I swear I wasn't doing anything against the law when I got this nice error dialog:     Looks like the pBuffer variable is important enough inside VS as to get its own dialog! :-)
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:49 PM

Entity Framework to adopt T4 for code generation in v2

Yesterday the Entity Framework team announced at PDC08 that they will based all their code generation on the Microsoft built-in T4 technology. This is great news as it will allow deeply customization of the generated code. If you're new to T4 you should...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:01 PM

The New Visual Studio 2010 Code Editor

As you may have already heard Visual Studio 2010 will include a *new* code editor completely *rewritten* in fully managed code and based on *WPF*. Yaay!. Very, very promising stuff. I just fired up the bits I received at the PDC08 and went Help->About...
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Friday, October 10, 2008 10:20 PM

Wishing for dev10: Get rid of PLK, SLK, DLK and anything ?LK

Today one very annoying thing you've to do when you want to deploy your Visual Studio Package extension is to get a PLK or "Package Load Key" from Microsoft. This is a painful process which can be divided into two equally painful parts: Pain...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 2:22 PM

Infacta & GroupMail: They Suck Big Time

I wanted to post this to alert other people about this company. I brought GroupMail Business Edition for $299 several months ago, it was version v5.2.0.54 then. I never got a chance to use it until now, so I headed to the Infacta website to download the...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 1:19 AM

Introducing Silverlight Streaming Library (SLSL)

A weekend a couple of months ago I coded a quick and dirty spike on a C# library to wrap the Silverlight Streaming REST APIs. Using this library you can add, replace and delete File Sets (Applications) and files in your Silverlight Streaming account....
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:07 PM

Clarius SFT February 2007 CTP is available !!

Before you even mention this… yes… it’s March already… I’m proud to announce that one week after the GAX February 2007 CTP release (aka v1.2) we are making available our Clarius Software Factories Toolkit February 2007...
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