Roland Weigelt

Funny, this wildly unspectacular snippet is one of my most-used. For previous versions of Visual Studio, I had a macro for inserting this comment, but code snippets are much better, as they disturb the natural flow of typing much less.

My colleague Jens Schaller has a nice post on Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets.

Insgesamt 14 Personen fanden sich gestern Abend für das erste Treffen der User Group “Bonn-to-Code.Net” in den Räumen der Comma Soft AG in Bonn-Pützchen ein. Das Treffen stand ganz im Zeichen des Kennenlernens, dazu stellte jeder Teilnehmer in einer kurzen Präsentation sich, seine Kenntnisse und seine Interessen vor. Danach wurden erste Vorschläge für Vorträge bei den nächsten Treffen gesammelt und auch gleich der nächste Termin (21. März 2006) festgelegt.

Hier ein paar Bilder:

Today I finally took the time to completely clean my keyboard (a Cherry G80–3000). I removed all keys, cleaned the area behind the keys with a vacuum cleaner (uh.. disgusting) and used soap and warm water to wash the keys (oh look how bright they are now!). It’s not that I didn’t take care of my keyboard at all before, but after some years of use, superficial cleaning with a damp cloth just isn’t enough.

Some pictures:

Ahhh… Almost like having a brand new keyboard!

After reproducing my old VS.Net 2003 settings (using a proportional font) on Visual Studio 2005 and playing around with features like bold fonts, I’ve finally settled on fonts and colors settings. Here’s a preview what source code looks like:

Download: FontsAndColors.vssettings.

When you import the settings using the “Import and Export Settings Wizard” (in the Tools menu), please do yourself a favor: Keep the default “Yes, save my current settings” and create a backup of your settings, so you can go back to your old fonts and colors if you want.

Neben den meist flüchtigen Kontakten, die sich über mein Blog und meine Arbeit an GhostDoc ergeben, würde mich auch gerne mal “live” mit anderen Entwicklern auszutauschen. Da ich im Köln/Bonner Raum keine andere .NET User Group gefunden habe (und mir Fahrten nach Düsseldorf und Essen auf Dauer zu weit sind), versuche ich einfach mal eine eigene Gruppe auf die Beine zu stellen - schließlich ist ein Neues Jahr auch immer ein guter Zeitpunkt, um etwas Neues anzufangen.

Daher habe ich am 1.1.2006 die .NET User Group “Bonn-to-Code.Net” gegründet.

Weitere Infos gibt es auf der Website unter http://www.bonn-to-code.net.

2005 was an amazing year…

• GhostDoc became really popular (the VS2005 version alone had over 6000 downloads since the release in early November).
• The PDC was a great experience, and visiting Microsoft before that was a lot of fun.
• Being part of the “Show Off” session was nice; unfortunately it was pretty late, so people started leaving the movie theater before my video was even shown.

My plans for 2006 (to be more exact, those related to .NET)

• GhostDoc: After doing a bit of work after Christmas, it became clear that GhostDoc 2.0 will be a “large” release. Internally I’ll do some heavy refactoring on certain, isolated parts, throwing out some historical junk and moving to “C# 2.0 style” code.
• Things I want to learn: From my current point of view, WPF is the thing I want to dive into.
• Things I want to do: I’m in the process of founding a local .NET user group for the Bonn area, called “Bonn to Code” (yup, pun intended – all credit for that name goes to my colleague Jens Schaller).