Contents tagged with Visual Studio
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Updated WCF RSS Toolkit for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5
Now that I'm happily living in the exciting, fast paced world of Greater London you'd think my weekends would be spent enjoying the active nightlife or soaking in the culture and history all around me. But you'd be wrong. I'm a nerd and so I spent my weekend in nerd bliss, a.k.a. getting reacquainted with my old friend WCF. Sorry ladies, I'm taken.
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Visual Studio 2008 is Out and Startup Is FAST
Okay, so I have to admit that in the two days I've had Visual Studio 2008 installed on my desktop system I haven't had a chance to look at everything. However, when I was at Tech-Ed Barcelona I saw several demos where the speaker started Visual Studio 2008 and it seemed to just spring to life. My experiences with Visual Studio 2005 was far from "springy" including seeing the "Preparing Visual Studio for first use" diaog about every 5th time I started the application. In every demo, I had to make sure VS2005 was already running to avoid long delays and audience boredom.
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SharePoint/MOSS 2007 Forms Based Authentication Login/Registration Web Part
SharePoint 2007 and MOSS 2007 are built on ASP.Net 2.0 which means they can leverage many of the same features of ASP.Net 2.0 including the AspNetSqlMembershipProvider for use with Forms Based Authentication. While the ability to use the SQL based authentication exists in SharePoint, the other features like user registration and password recovery are not available. So having some time on my hands I decided to create a custom web part for FBA sites to allow users to login, register, and recover their password.
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Multithreading Demo Code from VSLive Dallas
I have placed the source code from my VSLive Dallas talk on Multhreading in Windows Forms on my corporate website. There are three solutions, each showing a different aspect of multithreading specific to Windows Forms. The first is called AsyncDemo and shows how to wrap a slow process in the .NET asynchronouse programming model. The second solution is BGWDemo and shows how you can use the BackgroundWorker component. The last demo is called TimerDemo and shows the difference between the three types of timers available. in the .NET Framework. This code is currently in C#, I'll try to get a VB version done as soon as I can.
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Vista Compatibility: Getting Prepped for Friday and Looking For Help
As you may have already heard, Windows Vista will be available for download on MSDN this Friday, November 17th. WooHoo!! While I'm looking forward to using the new OS full time (I've been beta testing off and on for several months) I understand that there are some issues with with running my usual list of software on the brand spanking new platform. In particular, here's a list of software that I know I'm going to have problems with.