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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

• Microsoft Releases Bug-Fix Version of Visual Studio 2005

  Via eWeek : Microsoft has released to manufacturing Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1, which features fixes for user-reported issues. Service Pack 1 of the development platform also includes more than 70 improvements for common development scenarios, including new processor support for code generation and profiling, as well as performance and scale improvements in Microsoft's TFS (Team Foundation Server ). Although Microsoft has released the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 bits to manufacturing, official... Posted Dec 15 2006, 01:25 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Tools and Resources, 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

• You Ever Have One Of Those Nights...

  Where Visual Studio absolutely refuses to cooperate? The VS gods were very much aligned against me earlier this evening...broken references in projects that worked just fine the last time I opened them up, breakpoints playing IDE hide-and-seek, code just outright refusing to compile even though I know it should, not to mention my source control server just outright being bloody slow as hell. *sigh* Yeah, it was just one of those nights...for every hour I wrestled with VS, I got about 10 minutes of... Posted Nov 27 2006, 03:54 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio, Irks

• Visual Studio 2005 // TODO

  Note to self: Continue to use Class View over Solution Explorer on all projects in the very near future...this has been on my todo list for a while now and I keep forgetting about it. Class View beats the snot out of Solution Explorer hands down. Share this post: | | | | | Posted Oct 24 2006, 05:35 AM by Jayson Knight with | with no comments Filed under: Opinions, Visual Studio

• 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

• Consolas Font -- Great For Visual Studio

  I came across this post over on CodingHorror.com earlier today, and I must say that the font he mentions (Consolas) is a huge improvement when it comes to readability when working within Visual Studio…download it here (the installer will set consolas as the default font in Visual Studio 2005 during the installation routine). I’m diggin’ it so far, sweet! Share this post: | | | | | Posted Aug 04 2006, 02:05 AM by Jayson Knight with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Tools and Resources, 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