Beta 2 of Visual Studio .NET 2005 has introduced a problem that prevents CodeRush from showing its menu entries. A workaround for the Options dialog has been published, which involves binding the command to call the dialog to a keyboard shortcut. One thing that’s not that easy to do is showing the CodeRush tool windows, like the CodeRush Guide, the Messages window, or the tool windows of 3rd party plugins like the CodeRush Documentor. To work around this, I have created a plugin called _CR_Open …
A while ago I wrote an article titled Taking part in a System.Transactions transaction, with some details on how to create your own class that takes part in a transaction, instead of just using the standard functionality. Now Sahil Malik has posted a new article that’s certainly worth a read because it contains information on recent changes in VS .NET 2005 beta 2 (I haven’t found the time yet to look into these changes myself) and another practical example of implementing one’s own transaction …
I was just watching the recent WinHEC 2005 Keynote webcast by Bill Gates and others, and one topic that was new to me (I haven’t been following all the early details on Longhorn too closely, so maybe I’ve been missing something) was the mentioning of Metro, an XML based document description language that’s apparently going to be the native spool format in Longhorn. Interesting idea, but I don’t think that’s very new… anybody remember how the Postscript/Display Postscript combination used to… …
Two bugs have been fixed in this one:
- When an electric delete operation was triggered while the caret was in virtual space, the caret would jump to the start of the virtual space, often the start of the line. This could happen to you, for example, when you had a new line inserted somewhere (maybe because you had used the electric semicolon in the previous line) that you didn’t want. You’d hit delete to get the next statement in the next line to move to the caret position, but the caret (tog …
I’m not going to make the same mistake again as last time and try to provide an updated version in the old location… so, although there are only a few fixes, the current version has its own place on this page. Here’s the link to version 1.1.3: CR_ElectricEditing-1.1.3.zip
In this version, the checkbox that can switch on and off the whole plugin functionality should finally work correctly. A bug has also been fixed that occurred after an elect …
Now I’ve finally had a look at the image library that comes with VS.NET 2005 beta 2. In a previous post I had commented on the video that Aaron had made about the library, and there seemed to be a number of varying views on the topic as well as on the final contents of the library. So what’s in it? Well, it’s part light, part dark… The icons, at least those in Windows XP format (74 are included of those), have several different formats, ranging from 16x16 to 48x48 and from 256 colours to True …
As astonishing as this problem was, I found a very easy fix for it, suggested in the Microsoft Product Feedback Center, if you can believe it. Apparently, a similar issue was already in the beta 1 refresh that came out many months ago, but was never actually solved. I tried to make my voice heard here, maybe it’ll be fixed in the future. Meanwhile, here’s what needs to be done to get networking back: Uninstall (or don’t install from the start) the “Microsoft Device Emulator version 1.0 Beta 2 - …
You can find their original announcement here and this link at Microsoft tells you much more about Refactor! itself. With the availability of new C# refactoring functionality in VS.NET 2005, Microsoft seem to have noticed the lack of similar functionality for Visual Basic developers. That’s why a cooperation was struck up with Developer Express for them to offer their fantastic DXCore-based refactoring product in a free version to VB.NET 2005 developers.
There’s lots of additional information …