I’ve been working for real with Visual Studio.NET 2005 beta 2 now for some time. It crashes here and there but overall it is a good experience from […]
Creating DevExpress’ XtraForm derived form as partial class
Developer Express offers an XtraForm (a windows form derived from Form class) with Look & Feel default set so you don’t have to use LookAndFeel objects to centralize […]
DirectX wishes for VS.NET 2005
Do you have wishes for managed DirectX for Visual Studio.NET 2005? You are in luck. Tom Miller’s put out a post inviting community to express their wishes for […]
CLR team goes ZBB
It is certainly a good thing that CLR team cleared the bug list for .NET Framework 2.0. I guess that makes 11/7 even more realistic date.
Is SecureString usable
if you want to keep a secret text in a System.String you’ll have security vulnerabilities. Since it stores the plain text in memory (and you have no control when […]
Visual Studio.NET 2005 sugars
Did you ever find yourself wondering which namespace a class belongs to? One would open the help and use index functionality to find it. Now the process is a […]
CodeSmith and Visual Studio.Net 2005 beta 2 story
I already blogged about CodeSmith being a wonderful tool so I won’t repeat my ode again. While CodeSmith is a great tool it doesn’t yet support integration into […]
RightHand.DataSet.Visualizer for Visual Studio.NET 2005 is born
Visualizer is a new cool feature of Visual Studio.NET 2005 debugger. It is exactly what I was looking for visualizing ADO.NET’s DataSet data thus I decided to write my […]
Visual Studio.NET 200x easily extensible?
Not exactly. Ever tried to write a Visual Studio.NET 200x addin? If yes, then you know that it isn’t exactly easy. Fortunately, there is a cure to this […]
Refactoring in VB.NET 2005?
C# 2005 does refactoring and this is a well known (and very welcome) feature by now. A less known fact is that VB.NET 2005 does refactoring, too. Not out of […]