Visual Studio – would like to see some new features in the next version
Yesterday evening I was sitting on my laptop and thought about what I like in Visual Studio and what I’m missing. Well, at all I’m very happy with Visual Studio, cannot remember any other development environment that is working as good as Visual Studio on Windows.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, September 22, 2010
IActiveScriptParse and x64
Some days ago I had to work on an .NET application that has been ported from C++. This application is using VBScript as scripting host using the IActiveScriptParse interface. While the C++ compile was working fine on x64 the .NET port didn’t work.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Friday, June 19, 2009
Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant (Firefox browser extension)
Today I have installed Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 [1] and noticed that it adds a Firefox [2] add-on called Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant. This browser extension adds ClickOnce installation support using Firefox browsers.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, July 7, 2008
[de] Visual Studio 2008 Launch in Frankfurt
Während meines Einsatz als Ask the export (ATE) auf dem Microsoft Stand in Frankfurt zum Launch von Visual Studio 2008 [1], Windows 2008 Server als auch SQL Server 2008 sind ein paar Bugs aufgetaucht, die ich heute mal auf Microsoft Connect eingetragen habe. Hier sind die einzelnen Feedbacks:
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Thursday, February 21, 2008
Debug .NET Source Code
Scott Guthrie announced [1] some weeks ago that Microsoft will offer the source code of the .NET framework. The source code will be released under the Microsoft Reference License [2] (MS-RL) and includes all comments which is very useful.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, December 19, 2007
LINQ Quickly (Book Review)
I got a copy of LINQ Quickly from Packt Publishing. Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is a new feature in Visual Studio 2008 that extends its query capabilities, using C# and Visual Basic. Visual Studio 2008 comes with LINQ provider assemblies that enable the use of LINQ with data sources such as in-memory collections, SQL relational databases, ADO.NET DataSets, XML documents, ect.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Object and Collection Initializers in VS.NET 2008
While working with the new Visual Studio .NET 2008 I'm using more and more the new features that are available in Visual Studio .NET and C# compile options. One of those features are object and collection initializers. I like it to write source code like following lines (I always have my JavaScript code in mind, which is sometimes very similar):
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, November 26, 2007
How to create Silverlight Applications with Notepad
You may have read my post about how you can build Silverlight Web applications with Visual Studio .NET 2005 [1] instead of using the next verison codename Orcas. Until this time I used always a Virtual PC which was sometimes a little bit slow.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Silverlight with Visual Studio .NET 2005
Could Silverlight [1] 1.1 assemblies be generated with Visual Studio .NET 2005? Well, if you read the GetStarted [2] page of Silverlight you see only upcoming Visual Studio codename Orcas as development platform.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, June 4, 2007
Orcas and JavaScript IntelliSense
I had a great discussion [1] with Bertrand [2] about the feature to have dynamically (Assembly Resources or on-the-fly created JavaScript files) added JavaScripts in IntelliSense available, too. Currently it is only possible to add JavaScript files by hand that are more or less static files, and ASP.NET AJAX does not come with plain JavaScript files, too, but it is working because ScriptManager is doing his job.
Posted by Michael Schwarz on Monday, April 30, 2007