Now that Developer Express have made a version of Refactor! available for free for VB.NET 2005 (see my previous post), why should one consider to spend money for the professional edition of the product? Detailed information on this topic is still in the works, but here’s the bottom line (quoting Richard Morris, the CTO of Developer Express):
The features of Refactor! Pro (R!pro) that are not in Refactor! (R!) include
- more languages (Visual Basic AND C#)
- more Visual Studio IDEs (VS2 …
I have just finished installing VS.NET 2005 beta 2 on my Tablet PC for the second time, with the exact same result: I can’t get any networking whatsoever to work on the system. What I did is really quite simple: I cleaned up the system very carefully because there had been an installation of beta 1 on it before. I found a lot of information about that on the web, like here, I also had collected some experience doing that a few times with the CTPs (on a different system). I’m reasonably sure I d …
VS.NET 2005 beta 2 is finally available in MSDN subscriber downloads, as I’m sure I’m not the first to report. Now if only the download would use more than a third of my download capacity… So we’re talking tomorrow at the same time, if things keep up. Hm.
I’ve heard similar information from other sources, but now Mark Bower said it out loud in his blog post: VS 2005 beta 2 is nearly there and should be available for MSDN subscribers a while before the 25th. Early next week, or maybe even a little earlier than that?
In a recent post, I announced a plugin that would bring a few features from nostalgic Emacs days to the modern world of Visual Studio 2003 and CodeRush. I received some feedback on that first version and now the Updated, Fixed and Obviously Much Better New Version™ is available. To start with, here’s the download link again, for the current version: CR_ElectricEditing-current.zip
If you need instructions to get the plugin installed, rev …
One thing I loved back in those days when I was using (X)Emacs as a development platform was the fantastic support for editing programming languages. Obviously, C and C++ were the programming languages everybody wanted to edit at the time, and Emacs had various editing modes for these languages. The culmination point was the arrival of CC Mode, but even before that the c mode and c++ mode for Emacs had features that were called “electric”. Years later, IDEs in the MS world have finally caught u …
I’ve always been wondering what would happen when the number of icons in the VS.NET 2003 splash screen exceeded 10… because it looks like the splash screen would be “full” then. But I always thought okay, they didn’t think about this very well. Hm… now I found out, it stretches to make room for additional lines:
Rob Mensching has published a really interesting article on MSDN where he talks about why and how the process of creating software setup programs should and can be integrated in the overall development process. I support most of what he’s saying, and even if you don’t, the article is an interesting introductory read about WiX. …