Contents tagged with Visual Studio 2005
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Oracle 10g for Windows Vista released
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Complete Visual Studio Team System shortcut keys listing
Reading this blog entry, I remembered of the times when my younger brother Alex was the capo of PowerBuilder 6: just to impress you, he would put the mouse in his shirt pocket and then banged through the IDE just with the keyboard with amazing speed and dexterity. Well, it so happens that you can do the same with Visual Studio, only that we are so spoiled by the mouse that we never learnt how to drive VS without one. Almost a year ago, Jeff Atwood wrote a VS macro that generates a nice Web page with all the keyboard shortcuts available, I installed the macro, run it, and uploaded the shortcuts page ready for you to download and check here (the link is in Spanish, don't worry, just press the Download button.) So, any unexpected and useful shortcut there?
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Programmer fonts, do they matter?
May be I pay attention to silly things, but some fonts are easier to read than others and if you keep writing or reading code during hours and hours, the font that you use may very well affect your productivity (just a theory
![Geeked [8-|]](http://ecuador.latindevelopers.net/emoticons/emotion-15.gif)
, besides, far more ridiculous stuff has made it's way in the Internet). Anyways, this is a code section with the standard Visual Studio font (Courier New Size 10): -
PowerCollections.MultiDictionary
¿Quieres leer esto en español? Ven acá.
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Atlas Toolkit released
The first official release of the Atlas Toolkit is ready! Well, what nowadays is called a release, what with the release-early-get-feedback-CTP-like-hell-release-again cycle. But I won't rant at the moment because these are actually good news, so go download Atlas right now (before another early release replaces it ;-)
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Faster databinding
My friend Harley Jácome has started blogging (hey, ¡está en español!). There he describes a neat Windows Forms databinding trick that is probably very old but that I wasn't aware of. Which one do you think is faster?
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Slides for the JSP - ASP.NET Architecture Comparison Webcast
As promised I just uploaded the demo files for the JSP - ASP.NET Architecture Comparison webcast. You can now download the JSP demo project (made with Eclipse) and the ASP.NET demo project (made with Visual Web Developer). Both projects connect to the Northwind database running on SQL Server Express, you will most probably have to modify the connection strings (in the Java data access classes and the ASP.NET web.config file). Do let me know if you have any problems.
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Isolated Storage
Say you want that every user save her preferences, last actions, last login time, etc. in her PC, where would you put that information? In isolated storage of course, this is like a .NET managed folder where you can create a number of files, there is one store per user/application/assembly, and the use couldn't be simpler:
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A revisit to a tiny C# shortcut
My blog on string.IsNullOrEmpty() caused quite a stir (in my micro-scale, anyway), I got a number of comments, most of them interesting, and I feel happy of *not* being the only guy interested in silly small details. The feedback forced me to polish my benchmark, first of all James Bogosian is right: the performance differences are really small, I had to do 20'000.000 and 30'000.000 comparisons to see some stable differences. I also introduced the name.Length > 0 comparison out of several suggestions; after some cleaning, the results for the not null and not empty string tests were these:
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Comparing ASP.NET and JSP architecture and components
Next Tuesday 4th I'll be doing a webcast by the title of Comparing ASP.NET and Java ServerPages (JSP) Architecture and Components, as usual I'll try to minimize the quantity of slides and show as many code as possible. The webcast will be at 9:00 A.M. PST (that is, 12h00 Panamá-Bogotá-Quito-Lima time). If you would like to join us you can register here.