November 2009 - Posts

Post #8 – Updated Facebook Developer Toolkit for .Net
V3.0 of the Facebook Developer Toolkit was just released on Codeplex . Major Updates: • Provide better doc and samples • Provide support for Silverlight • Provide support for ASP.NET MVC • Provide improved support for WPF • Provide improved support for Read More...
Post #7 – Serializing Dictionary<string,string> to/from XML
I spent a bit of time searching for the magic of how to use XmlSerialize with the Dictionary type this morning and thought I’d share the easy-to-use result: Assuming you have an object, let’s say it’s called “data” that is of type Dictionary<string,string>, Read More...
Post #6 - “First-time Experience” with the Arch Tools
Cameron Skinner, Product Unit Manager, for the Visual Studio “Team Architect” group, has a great blog post about discovering the new modeling tools within Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. Check it out! Read More...
Post #5 – Great post by Dane Morgridge on Model First Development
Using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 to do Entity Framework Model First Development for Visual Studio 2008 Read More...
Post #4 – Copying VSIX extensions to the Experimental Instance
When using Visual Studio Extensions (aka VSIXs), sometimes you may want to use those Extensions when debugging in the Experimental Instance of Visual Studio. However, when installing VSIXs via the Extension Manager or by double clicking on a .vsix file, Read More...
Post #3 (a bit delayed)
While I "fell off the horse" of daily blogging, I'm climbing back on and will still do a post-per-day, it's just that I'm going to do 5 of them today :) Today's post is about the "sticky toolbox" feature you can use with the UML designers. So many times Read More...
Post #2 of NaWriSOMyBloMo (National Write Something On My Blog Month) - Visual Studio 2010 Extensions aka VSIX
Yesterday I started a personal challenge of writing something on my blog every day this month. Today's hint for Visual Studio 2010 is that it would be very wise to start coming up-to-speed on the new Visual Studio Extension mechanism known as VSIX. You Read More...
National Write Something Month...
All over the world people have taken inspiration from the folks at National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) http://www.nanowrimo.org/ and are creating other types of month-long creative self-challenges (vlogging, etc.) so I'm going start my own and see Read More...

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