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Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:12 PM

VS2008 Goodness

Last night I presented at the Perth .NET Community of Practice monthly meeting to quite a full house. Despite not covering some of the new designer features for WPF, WCF etc or any of the improvements in the web space it seems to have gone down reasonably...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 3:21 AM

Small Features are Cool Too!

This evening I was taking a look at some of the additional options in the Project Properties dialog in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and noticed that there was an additional dropdown on the Resources page. The Access Modifier dropdown with options Friend...
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Sunday, September 23, 2007 3:10 PM

Visual Studio 2008 - Are 3 Pillars Enough?

As some of you will be aware, Dave and myself have embarked on writing the sequel to Visual Studio 2005 , aptly name Professional Visual Studio 2008, which should be completed early next year. For the last month or so, while we were waiting for the contracts...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:56 PM

Power Tools for .NET Compact Framework v3.5

Microsoft have just released the Power Tools for the .NET CF v3.5 B2 that can be download here , which includes: Remote Performance Monitor and GC Heap Viewer NETCF CLR Profiler App Configuration Tool NETCF ServiceModel Metadata Tool Remote Logging Configuration...
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:30 PM

Everything is Go this Weekend

Things are looking up for a monster weekend of activity: For those who don't already know I'm making the move to Sydney on Sunday evening, so there is a fair bit still to be done. I've just got back from lunch with the residents from the Silicon...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 5:50 PM

VB 9.0 Feature Focus

In my previous post I commented that VB is coming of age in Visual Studio 2008 with better support for some of the debugging attributes. One of the blogs that I regularly read is the B#.NET blog and recently Bart has been doing a VB 9.0 Feature Focus...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 10:51 PM

VB.NET Meets the DebuggerDisplay Attribute in VS2008

One of the most annoying things I find about working with the Guid class is that in order to see what the value is you have to go into a watch window and query myguid.tostring() , this doesn't sound like too much work but if you are used to relying...
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Sunday, September 02, 2007 8:18 AM

Entity Framework - Something I can ignore for the time being

Well, when I say "can" ignore I actually mean I can't work with it at the moment using Sql Server CE. Apparently, according to Danny who has been great at posting an update regarding the decisions that have been made, the Sql Server CE made...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 6:00 AM

Visual Studio 2008 featuring Client Application Services

One of the neat features that Windows Forms developers get with the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 are the Client Application Services. As both Brad and Daniel have posted about these services piggyback off the ASP.NET 2.0 services for authentication...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:25 AM

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Sync Services

It's taken me a while to get around to exploring what's new with the Microsoft Sync Services in Beta 2. Given how far they had got with Beta 1 I half expected this to be pretty much baked. Unfortunately this is definitely not the case. Without...
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Saturday, August 11, 2007 8:34 PM

Multi-targeting with Visual Studio 2008

Over of the perhaps over hyped features of Visual Studio 2008 is the ability to create, or work with existing, .NET Framework v2.0 applications. One of the pain points of previous upgrades to Visual Studio is the need to migrate to a compatible version...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:46 PM

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Installation Issue with Team Explorer

Recently I started rebuilding my personal laptop and made the decision to see whether I could get away without installing Visual Studio 2005 . Unfortunately early this week I ran into a bit of a hurdle when I attempted to install Team Explorer. For some...
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Friday, August 03, 2007 3:46 AM

Automation with Device Emulator v3

In order to successfully build an application for a mobile device you need to go through the same process as you would for building any other application when it comes to testing. Unfortunately this is typically a painful process as it requires the application...
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:37 PM

Windows Mobile Security for Developers

Before I get into the talking about a tool that windows mobile developers will find useful I thought I'd start off with a tool for the end users who are worried about loosing their precious device. Earlier this week I was sent a link to the Shadowmite...
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Friday, May 25, 2007 9:15 PM

.NET Compact Framework 3.5 Redistributables

Anyone working with Visual Studio "Orcas" to build mobile applications should be aware that the v3.5 Beta 1 Redistributable are now available from MS Downloads. There is also a good list of the new features that have been added to v3.5 of the...
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