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Visual Studio 2010 editor vs. gVim over Remote Desktop
19 October 09 09:00 AM | andarno | 0 Comments   

For those of you who may think WPF is too slow, you gotta check this out. Visual Studio 2010's new WPF-based code editor is lightening fast, especially when compared over a fast FiOS Remote Desktop connection to gVim! Read More...

Filed under: WPF, Visual Studio

How to force Vista to NOT elevate an application
15 October 08 07:52 AM | andarno | 0 Comments   

User Account Control, the feature in Vista that causes installers and some applications to require "elevation" to administrator privileges to run, cuts both ways.  It's designed to protect users from apps that try to make system-level changes Read More...

GZip encoder for Compact WCF
01 October 08 03:13 AM | andarno | 1 Comments   

The GZip encoder is not included in NetCF as it is on the desktop WCF, but it isn't hard to build yourself and in fact we have released a sample of exactly how to add your own GZip encoder to NetCF: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108652 So many Read More...

Filed under: Mobile devices, NetCF, WCF, .NET

If the MS Office team wrote Visual Studio
05 August 08 07:29 AM | andarno | 2 Comments   

Some humorous pros and cons to Visual Studio, if the Microsoft Office team were ever to take over. (disclaimer: this is a tongue in cheek post.  No offense -- only laughs intended) Visual Studio 2008 would be able to load VC7 projects, modify them Read More...

Filed under: Visual Studio

Visual Studio trick to quickly find any file in solution
02 August 08 08:04 PM | andarno | 4 Comments   

You know that Find text box in the toolbar of Visual Studio?  Those of us who are keyboard-inclined probably never use it because Ctrl+F is quicker than moving your hand to the mouse.  But there is a hidden gem of a feature inside it that really Read More...

Filed under: Visual Studio

OpenID and ASP.NET web sites
14 April 08 11:21 PM | andarno | 0 Comments   

If you are a web developer I hope you've considered accepting OpenID credentials for logging in your users.  If you have an ASP.NET web site, the process of adding OpenID support to your web site couldn't be easier when you use the free C# DotNetOpenId Read More...

Filed under: Identity, .NET

Why you should never use TCHAR in C++ header files
22 February 08 11:38 PM | andarno | 0 Comments   

In C++, TCHAR, LPCTSTR, CString, and other types discretely change to their char/WCHAR, CStringA/CStringW counterparts depending on whether UNICODE is defined in your source code.  Cool.  By conscientiously using _countof(x) instead of sizeof(x) Read More...

Filed under: C++

Why your Visual Studio add-in fails to load with error 0x80004005
15 February 08 04:43 PM | andarno | 0 Comments   

Writing Visual Studio add-ins gives you the power to do some impressive things within the IDE to enhance your productivity.  Unfortunately getting your add-in to load into Visual Studio can sometimes be a pain.  Here's just a tip you should Read More...

Filed under: Visual Studio

Why double-clicking on an .SLN file doesn't always launch Visual Studio
13 February 08 08:32 PM | andarno | 9 Comments   

Well this is my first post as a member of the Visual Studio Platform & Ecosystem team.  My second full day on the job, and I've found some less-than-ideal areas of Visual Studio that I'm eager to improve for myself and for you, our customers.  Read More...

Filed under: Visual Studio

Write a NetCF app that provisions your device from your device
04 February 08 07:42 AM | andarno | 1 Comments   

My first post in the provisioning series introduced what provisioning of your Windows Mobile device means and the basics of why you would want to do it.  In future posts I'll give some concrete examples of XML that accomplish a few common tasks.  Read More...

Filed under: Mobile devices, NetCF, Provisioning

Microsoft launches MSDN Code Gallery for open-source sharing
01 February 08 03:28 PM | andarno | 0 Comments   

Microsoft recently launched the MSDN Code Gallery for Microsoft employees and others to share code and software using the Microsoft Public License .  MSDN Code Gallery looks and feels very much like CodePlex , but Code Gallery lacks the TFS source Read More...

New job with Visual Studio Platform & Ecosystem
24 January 08 09:55 PM | andarno | 0 Comments   

I have accepted a new position within Microsoft with the Visual Studio Platform & Ecosystem team.  Rather than working on the .NET Compact Framework I will be working on "VS10".  I don't actually make the transition for a few more Read More...

XmlSerializer compatibility between NetCF and the desktop
23 January 08 09:28 PM | andarno | 1 Comments   

The XmlSerializer found in the .NET Compact Framework has a very different implementation than the one found in the full .NET Framework.  The reasons for the differences include size and performance constraints that make the desktop's XmlSerializer Read More...

Filed under: Mobile devices, NetCF

Using the XmlSerializer as an XmlObjectSerializer with WCF
18 January 08 08:06 PM | andarno | 3 Comments   

The Windows Communication Foundation introduced the new DataContractSerializer to replace the XmlSerializer in many scenarios.  The DataContractSerializer is faster than the XmlSerializer, but has certain limitations.  For example it does not Read More...

Filed under: Mobile devices, NetCF, WCF

An impressive Silverlight Slideshow control
01 January 08 03:31 PM | andarno | 3 Comments   

I recently discovered a very impressive (and free) Silverlight slideshow control. I would recommend it over any Flash-based slideshow controls that I've seen so far (because this one's better--not just because I work here <g>) Here's a sample: Watch Read More...

Filed under: Silverlight