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Tag Archives: visual studio
Updated chart of .NET version numbers
Way back when, I published a table detailing the version numbers of the various parts that make up a .NET application: The Tools, the C# language, the Framework itself and the Engine (CLR) that it all runs on. With the … Continue reading
Cool switch snippet
I was watching one of the MSDN Screencasts today and Mike Taulty put in a switch statement that pre-populated itself with valid values for each of the case statements within the switch. I hadn’t seen this before so I investigated … Continue reading
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Always show the solution, Dammit!!!
This has got to be the most pointless setting in Visual Studio. I can’t imagine why any reasonable person would want to hide the solution. Maybe it is for those “Morts” I keep hearing about who bundle everything into one … Continue reading
Contradictory messages
While attempting to create a database project in Visual Studio 2008 against a SQL Server 2008 database I got a rather odd error message. The dialog used to create the project requests information about the SQL Server database. It clearly … Continue reading
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Object Initialisers II
Following on from Gary Short‘s message from my previous post on Object Initialisers, I decided to take a screenshot of Orcas displaying the tooltips. I really have to compliment those that designed and wrote intellisense. Not only does it work … Continue reading
A start on LINQ
I was at the Microsoft MSDN Roadshow today and I got to see some of the latest technologies being demonstrated for the first time and I’m impressed. Daniel Moth’s presentation on the Language Enhancements and LINQ was exceptional – It … Continue reading
Automatic Properties
Continuing my look at the new features found in the C# 3.0 compiler I will look at Automatic Properties. public class Employee{ public string FirstName { get; set; } public string Surname { get; set; } public DateTime DateOfBirth { … Continue reading
Extensions Methods
I’ve been looking at more of the language enhancements in C# 3.0. In this post I’m going to look at Extensions. There have been many times went a class has needed to be extended, but the additional code just doesn’t … Continue reading
Anonymous Types
Anonymous Types are another new feature to the C# 3.0 compiler. To create one, just supply the new keyword without a class name, followed by the, also new, object initialiser notation. As the type name is not known it needs … Continue reading
Visual Studio 2005 on Vista
I’ve got Visual Studio 2005 installed on Vista – It wasn’t the trouble free installation I’d hoped for. I had to go through the installation cycle twice. On the first attempt it got so far and then informed me that … Continue reading
