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• Syntax For Generic Type Declarations In Type Elements

  I was recently working on implementing a provider based design for a project I'm working on which also happens to make heavy use of generics throughout the provider architecture. The signature of the type to be used in the <providers> section of the config file is MyType<T, V>, however I kept getting the dreaded "Unable to load type 'MyType' from assembly 'MyAssembly'" error when attempting to run the application. After about 30 minutes of wringing my hands... Posted Jun 17 2007, 03:12 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, Tools and Resources, .Net, Visual Studio

• ScottGu Has A Power Packed Outline Of Orcas Up

  Scott Guthrie continues to show us why he's the man with the plan over at Microsoft with a huge post on some features new to Orcas : One of the highlights of my recent trip to Europe was getting the chance to publicly show off some of the new features in our next release of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework (codename: "Orcas") for the first time publicly. You can download the deck I presented here . You can also watch a version of the Belgium talk that Tom posted on the web here (note: another... Posted Feb 09 2007, 04:58 PM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Technology and Internet, .Net, Links and News, Visual Studio

• XNA Studio Express -- Requires C# Express?

  While I don't plan on being the next John Carmack , I was pretty stoked to see that XNA Studio Express went RTM recently. Except for one small problem...XNA will only run on machines with C# Express installed; the full blown non-express SKU's (Professional, VSTS, etc) aren't compatible. I do realize that an XNA Professional release is in the pipeline, but I'm not going to install C# Express just to play around with the XNA Express bits (even though it's very tempting). I think it's kind of silly... Posted Dec 13 2006, 02:32 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Visual Studio, Gameage, Irks

• So That's Why My Orcas CTP Wasn't Mounting

  I recently downloaded the September CTP VPC image of Orcas (aka Visual Studio vNext) only to find that the image I downloaded refused to mount in Virtual PC. Thankfully I just stumbled across Jon Galloway's post about just this issue here . In a nutshell, there are two VPC images I needed to download; I only snagged the base image (which contains the operating system) and missed the image containing the actual Orcas bits. Note to self, always read the (full) instructions . I'm a happy camper now... Posted Oct 01 2006, 01:19 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Visual Studio, Irks

• Visual Studio 2005 SDK - August 2006

  Via Gabriel Lozano-Moran ( full post here ): It hasn't been officially announced yet to my knowledge and the download link is not yet live but in the next couple of days Microsoft will release the Visual Studio 2005 SDK - August 2006 V3 RTM. Playing around with download links I was able to get the download link for the SDK. Navigate to the VSIP Members web site Log on Navigate to the following url: http://affiliate.vsipmembers.com/downloads/69/UserFileDownload.ashx Accept the license agreement The... Posted Aug 15 2006, 08:59 PM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Tools and Resources, .Net, Links and News, Visual Studio

• My.Blogs Visual Studio Add-in Released

  From Keyvan Nayyeri (full post here , Google action here ): Visual Basic team has given a collection of sample codes for dealing with blog contents in Visual Basic 2005: My.Blogs is a collection of sample code that will show you how you can easily provide programmatic access to weblogs in the applications you build. The My.Blogs sample code supports reading from blogs feeds (including RSS 2.0, ATOM 1.0, and RDF 1.0) as well as posting entries to blog servers (using the MetaWebLog API). Read their... Posted Dec 06 2005, 08:23 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, Visual Studio

• To .Pdb Or Not To .Pdb

  It’s a fair question. There are lots of folks who will say “deploying with .pdb’s kill performance”…to some extent this is true, but not as true as some folks would like to think, especially with machines running as fast as they do lately. That being said, there are really 2 different development scenarios that deploying with .pdb’s applies to: A corporate IT setting. An independent software vendor (ISV) setting. In an IT setting, the environment is usually (hopefully... Posted Nov 09 2005, 07:58 PM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Visual Studio

• Taking the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Plunge

  I am thinking about installing Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 on my main machine (which of course has .Net 1.1/VS2003 on it). I’ve had very good luck with VS2k5b2 on a secondary machine (sans previous versions installed though), to the point that I abhor going back to VS2k3 (VS2k5 is simply beautiful man). Has anyone run into any issues with this? I don’t want to get left behind…can’t have you guys knowing more about .Net 2.0 than I do ;-). Share this post: | | | | | Posted Aug 10 2005, 06:43 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, .Net, Visual Studio

• Resource Management in Visual Studio 2005

  Resource management is changing in Visual Studio 2005/.Net 2.0, moving from a string based lookup mechanism (i.e. ResourceManager.GetString([value])) to a strongly typed system. This is a welcome change, and one I’ve been exploring recently (finally getting around to learning VS2005 and all of the new features). I’ve written a short, high level article about the new resource management changes, so have a look and let me know what you think! Share this post: | | | | | Posted Jul 13 2005, 08:13 PM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Technology and Internet, Tools and Resources, .Net, Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Installation and First Thoughts

  I finally got around to giving Visual Studio 2005 (beta 2) a test drive recently. Whereas my meanderings with the beta 1 bits were downright hideous , this experience has been a complete 180 from that. Installation was trouble free (and fast I might add…I’d estimate around half the time of Visual Studio 2003, and definitely much faster than beta 1 of VS2005; 20 minutes on a relatively fast machine). Startup time is very snappy as well, again faster than VS2003…most impressive... Posted Jul 09 2005, 02:14 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, .Net, Visual Studio