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Visual Studio 2008 is out!
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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As you all probably know, yesterday Visual Studio 2008 was released in its RTM version. You can download trial versions ot it here . Visual Studio 2008 ships the C# language in its third version. You can download the C# v3.0 specification from here .
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Whitepapers on .NET 3.5
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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The following nice set of whitepapers written by the authoritative David Chappell is available for download at Microsoft: Introducing the .NET Framework 3.5 Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation Introducing Windows Communication Foundation...
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Line Of Code Counter tool
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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Just a few days ago Microsoft has released this nice free tool called "Microsoft Line Of Code Counter" that does just what the name says: it counts lines of code inside source code files. This tool is a Framework .NET 2.0 application that comes already...
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Remove the Open button from the File Download dialog box in Internet Explorer
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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I casually discovered that you can easily avoid to display the Open button shown by the File Download dialog box in Microsoft Internet Explorer by placing the following tag in your web page: <head> <META name="DownloadOptions" content="noopen...
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Code Protection SDK for .NET from Microsoft
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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Disassemblers and decompilers are sometimes essential tools in a developer's toolbox but it is true that they also expose code to be easily reversed and even patched. A few days ago Microsoft has released version 2.0 of the Software Licensing and Protection...
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Visual Studio 2005 C# Code Snippets
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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There is a very nice and vast set of C# code snippets that you can download to integrate those already installed with Visual Studio 2005. You can read about the code snippet categories here and you can download the install package here .
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Windows search not searching inside some file types?
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over 6 years ago
by
esseemme
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The other day I was searching for a specific configuration section I had made time before inside the web.config file of a Visual Studio project but I just could not remember what project it was. I ran a Windows search on the entire file system partition...
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"Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server" free ebook
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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The final release of the guide "Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server" can be downloaded (6.48 MB) from the codeplex.com site.
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Win32 Programming - part 4: C++ runtime redistributable
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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If you develop Win32 application using Visual C++ 2005 you will probably also have to distribute the C++ runtime together with your application. X86 – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=32BC1BEE-A3F9-4C13-9C99-220B62A191EE&displaylang...
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Regular expression tools
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over 6 years ago
by
esseemme
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There is a nice set of tools that may be of great help for anyone working with regular expression on the .NET platform. Following is a list of some of these free tools: RegexDesigner.NET (full C# source code available for download) Rad Software Regular...
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Win32 Programming - part 3: tools
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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Here I recap, for those that do not yet have them, what I believe necessary tools and documentation to approach Win32 programming: Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition (download it localized in your preferred languare and also don't forget to...
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Win32 Programming - part 2: forums and newsgroups
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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In writing any non-trivial application, help from the community of developers if often fundamental. In my own dev projects I have been using various forums and discussion sites. Following are links to what I think among the very best: Microsoft Discussion...
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.NET resources tools
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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There are few interesting and useful tools around for working with managed application resources. You might be interested in taking a look at them: Resource Refactoring Tool ResX File Public Code Generator ResEx, a translation friendly .NET resource editor
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Win32 Programming - part 1: an introductory tutorial
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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Something I once enjoyed was developing small Windows applications starting from scratch, that is, coding everything in C or C++ using only the Win32 APIs. I'd like to dedicate a few of my blog's posts to what it means to write applications this way....
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C#/VB .NET Coding Guidelines free ebook
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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Steve Sartain, an architect at Iridium Software, has put together a nice set of "C#/VB .NET Coding Guidelines". You can freely download the over 100 pages long ebook here .
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Service Oriented Architecture
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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If you are into this SOA thing that is so popular lately, you might be interested in reading these two very interesting documents provided by Microsoft: Readings in Service Orientation SOA in the Real World (chapter 2 with non-black images on pg 26 and...
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Patterns & Practices April 2007 DVD
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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Patterns & Practices are Microsoft's proven recommendations for how to design, develop, deploy, and operate architecturally sound applications for the Microsoft Platform. You can download the full set of detailed technical information including printable...
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Hosting Windows Media Player inside Firefox
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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You might not know that Microsoft has developed and released a Firefox plug-in to allow hosting Windows Media Player inside the Firefox web browser. You can download the plug-in from here .
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"Windows PowerShell" free ebook at Microsoft
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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You can download a 44 pages long ebook introducing "Windows PowerShell" scripting here . The associated demo files are also available here .
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"Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers" free ebook
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over 6 years ago
by
esseemme
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You can download your free copy of the ebook "Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers" edited by Microsoft Press here . You can also get the corresponding source code samples here . This is an ideal book if you need to start learning VB...
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error MIDL2020 : error generating type library : LayOut failed
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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If you get an error like this, chances are that your MIDL compiler is too old. Try using a more recent one by downloading a recent platform SDK. If you are still using Visual C++ 6.0 look at this post for the last compatible PSDK .
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InfoPath cannot open the selected form because of an error in the form's code
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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Today while trying to open an InfoPath 2007 form I got the following error: Form template: http://MyServerName/forms/form.xsn InfoPath cannot open the selected form because of an error in the form's code. The Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 is not installed...
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Last Platform SDK compatible with Visual Studio 6.0
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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Having had recently the need to use the old Visual Studio 6.0 (specifically Visual C++ 6.0), I discovered that the last Platform SDK compatible with this IDE is the February 2003 edition .
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Seaching for .NET contents? Try here...
Posted
over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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A site for .NET developers: http://searchdotnet.com/
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Skipping .NET assembly strong name validation
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over 6 years ago
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esseemme
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This is something I did not know ... you can disable strong name valildation on an assembly using the Strong Name tool. An assembly that fails strong name validation will not load unless you disable signature verification for the assembly using the Strong...
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