Scott, one of my colleagues from my first year at MSDN, has a blog now and he just posted a cool entry illustrating the new configuration system in VS 2005...Configuration is a breeze. In the current Visual Studio .NET 2005, you’re going to find that a great thing has happened to configuration. Basically, the mechanism for creating, editing, and...

Eric describes a new Whidbey feature focused on creating those 'utility' classes in the style of System.Math or System.Environment:C# Whidbey Featurette #3: Static classes Because all functions in C# must live inside of a class, there are some clases - System.Math is a canonical example - that are merely collections of static methods. Since...

Eric describes a new Whidbey feature focused on creating those 'utility' classes in the style of System.Math or System.Environment:C# Whidbey Featurette #3: Static classes Because all functions in C# must live inside of a class, there are some clases - System.Math is a canonical example - that are merely collections of static methods. Since...

In a very 'Easter-Egg-ish' post, Grant Richins (a developer on the C# Compiler Team), explains a configuration option of 'alink.dll'.So everybody hopefully knows you can put a star "*" for either of the last 2 version numbers of the AssemblyVersion attribute.  ALink will then translate that into the days and minutes since January 1st,...

In a very 'Easter-Egg-ish' post, Grant Richins (a developer on the C# Compiler Team), explains a configuration option of 'alink.dll'.So everybody hopefully knows you can put a star "*" for either of the last 2 version numbers of the AssemblyVersion attribute.  ALink will then translate that into the days and minutes since January 1st,...

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Not a long post (I've included it all below), but useful nonethelessC# Featurette #2 - Inline Warning Control Another feature that we added for Whidbey is the ability to selectively disable warnings within your code. For example:#pragma warning disable 135  // Disable warning CS135 in this block#pragma warning restore 135Comments on this...

If you are using the CTP (Community Technical Preview) or you are just interested in Whidbey/VS2005, then you'll definitely want to check out the new blog created to allow various team members to post info on VS2005. Check it out here.You might also be interested in the relatively new VS2005 portal on MSDN.

I have to admit that I haven't developed a "wizard" framework yet in .NET, I've just been stacking panels on top of each other, naming them step1...stepN and then showing and hiding them as necessary. Not exactly an easy-to-reuse approach, but it works. Justin Rogers, a developer who has worked on the GDN Workspaces system, the ASP.NET forums,...

This is so very cool... a great idea, good explanations, tons of useful bits of code and information, and even a very graphically pleasing set of diagrams in the article!!Generate Thumbnail Images from PDF DocumentsBy Jonathan Hodgson This article presents VB.NET code to create thumbnail images from a directory of Adobe Acrobat PDF documents using...

Make sure you check out your University/College bookstore! "vbjay" mentioned today (on GotDotNet) that he bought the Academic version of VS.NET 2003 from his college bookstore for just a bit over $100.00. I did some googling around and found several University bookstores offering the software for around 99 dollars (to current students and staff...

If you haven't read much about Refactoring before, I'd suggest you check out Jay's earlier post on the subject, but he is now going into quite a bit more detail.Whidbey Refactorings: RenameLet's start by talking about Rename. I view Rename as being one of the “Tier 1” refactorings – the refactoring we absolutely must provide, and which must...

Check it out here Part 6: Efficiently Representing Sets Scott Mitchell Summary: Scott Mitchell discusses data structures for implementing general and disjoint sets. A set is an unordered collection of unique items that can be enumerated and compared to other sets in a variety of ways.

Check it out here Part 6: Efficiently Representing Sets Scott Mitchell Summary: Scott Mitchell discusses data structures for implementing general and disjoint sets. A set is an unordered collection of unique items that can be enumerated and compared to other sets in a variety of ways.

I didn't know this existed... so I'm going to assume that a few of you don't know about it either... there is a Blog site for MVPs at http://www.msmvps.com/, with some blogs hosted on that site (using .Text) and links to MVP blogs on other sites.