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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 well. Well at least, Brian saw some things he...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 10-04-2007
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 and Public (in conflict with the documentation which...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-25-2007
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 to be finalised, I have been going through...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-23-2007
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 Tool NETCF Network Log Viewer There are...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-12-2007
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 Beach House and then later we're off to...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-06-2007
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 where he goes into a bit of detail about some of the...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-05-2007
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 on datatips it can quickly be quite annoying. For...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-04-2007
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 the decision to focus their attention on other...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-02-2007
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, authorisation and personalisation. In...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 08-29-2007
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 spending too much time the following issues really...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 08-28-2007

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