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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Missing or Hidden Dialog Controls on VMWare
This is an oddity with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 installed on the a virtual machine that I’ve run into that perhaps one in a hundred other VMWare Workstation users might run into. I’m running VMWare...
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Add Reference Search with Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools
My absolute favorite feature of Visual Studio 2010, so far, is the javascript Intellisense support via the <reference> tag. Add the following line to your .js file and you get jQuery...
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Target Framework and Platform Target: Get Your .NET Projects on the Same Page
It builds and runs fine on your local machine but when you deploy it to the server, all kinds of problems arise. Before you spent countless hours chasing ghosts, make sure you have your .NET projects...
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Office Outlook Add-In Development
I’ve long been interested in building add-ins for Microsoft Office but every time I’ve started to dive into it, I’ve been repelled by the challenges of understanding the Office COM interfaces and...
View ArticleUpgrade to System.Data.SQLite 1.0.74.0 in Visual Studio 2010
I wrote about getting SQLite up and working in Visual Studio 2010 and your .NET 4.0 projects in June. Then I got distracted with work and didn’t have a chance to come back to my exploration of SQLite...
View ArticleHow to Get Berkeley DB 5.2.28 and .NET Examples Working in Visual Studio 2010...
Over the years, I’ve looked into using Berkeley DB for my own C# applications because it has a solid reputation as a very fast, reliable key/value database. Every time I’ve walked away disappointed...
View ArticleHow to Get Berkeley DB SQL API into the .NET System.Data.SQLite Provider
My last post covered getting Berkeley DB up and running with .NET. Now it’s time to take it one step further and build the open source System.Data.SQLite ADO.NET library, replacing the SQLite 3 engine...
View ArticleAgile Software Design, Architecture and Planning Tools
Dr. Dobbs published the Jolt Awards for Design, Architecture and Planning Tools today. The Jolt judges make a very important introductory point before discussing the specific winners.“On large...
View ArticleDiversions in the D Programming Language
I am not a systems programmer, meaning I do not write operating system device drivers or file systems or operating system modules, etc, all written in a language that will compile down to raw machine...
View ArticleTechEd: ASP.NET and C# Bonanza
Sadly I was unable to attend, but watching a few videos over the weekend is enough to get my juices flowing for what is coming down the pike for .NET and ASP.NET and C#. Here are a few notes and...
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