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October 2008 - Posts

Thursday, October 30, 2008 5:34 PM

Hotfix for VS2008 SP1 Available

In VS2008 SP1 our team added a significant new feature: live semantic analysis of open files (or “background squiggles” as we called it internally).  Unfortunately, soon after release we found a few small issues with the release.  They are:
Posted by kevinpilch-bisson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:13 AM

CodeRush Xpress for C#

Yesterday at the PDC, Dustin announced the availability of CodeRush Xpress for C# .  This is a free addin for VS 2008 that provides a whole bunch of fantastic editor productivity features.  Download it today and give it a shot!
Posted by kevinpilch-bisson | 1 Comments
Monday, October 27, 2008 5:42 PM

Removing elements from a Dictionary

The topic of removing elements from a dictionary came up recently on an internal mailing list.  Someone was iterating through all the elements of a collection and wanting to remove some of them. The problem with that is that modifying the collection
Posted by kevinpilch-bisson | 9 Comments
Monday, October 27, 2008 7:58 AM

ArgumentNullException and refactoring

I hate using strings to represent program elements!  One of the big problems is that it hinders automated refactoring.  Strings don’t have any semantic meaning, so refactoring tools don’t know which references to the string need to be updated.
Posted by kevinpilch-bisson | 4 Comments
Monday, October 27, 2008 7:38 AM

Virtualization Update

Just a quick update.  After my previous post, I actually stopped using virtualization for most cases, since I found the performance hit to be too significant.  While the automation I mentioned before still doesn’t support HyperV, I hand built
Posted by kevinpilch-bisson | 3 Comments
 
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