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Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:26 PM

Workaround for Help Issue in Community Technology Preview May 2004

Excellent! Thanks to Rob Caron for letting us know how to fix the external help system in the latest Visual Studio .NET Community Technology Preview . And I thought it was just my machine…
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Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:38 AM

Tech·Ed Series Webcasts

While browsing tonight, I ran across some Tech·Ed series webcasts that cover some great architectural and developer-related topics. Some of these have already occurred, so they’re viewable on-demand. Others are upcoming. Software Estimation
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:25 AM

NxOpinion Mentioned in Steve Ballmer's Keynote at Tech·Ed 2004

The NxOpinion project I’ve been working on for the past year-and-a-half with Sagestone Consulting and the Robertson Research Institute was mentioned by Steve Ballmer in his keynote yesterday at Tech·Ed 2004 (see full transcript ): The last
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:53 AM

Threat Modeling Tool

Looks like we’ve released a Threat Modeling Tool . From the site: “The tool allows users to create threat model documents for applications. It organizes relevant data points, such as entry points, assets, trust levels, data flow diagrams,
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Monday, May 24, 2004 9:52 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Team System

That darn Chris Sells ...always doing my work for me. I was going to collect some juicy tidbits to post about the Visual Studio 2005 Team System that we announced at Tech·Ed 2004 today, but it seems he's beat everyone to the punch. So first, I'll
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Monday, May 24, 2004 9:17 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Community Technology Preview May 2004 for MSDN Subscribers

For those MSDN Universal ( update: ALL) subscribers who aren’t at Tech·Ed 2004 in San Diego, you can now download the Visual Studio 2005 Community Technology Preview May 2004 from MSDN Subscriber Downloads . The 32-bit edition weighs in at
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Sunday, May 23, 2004 8:20 PM

Book: Coder to Developer

I read Coder to Developer (by Mike Gunderloy) this weekend, and overall, I think it’s a good book for someone who has worked on smaller software projects and is interested in putting a little more rigor into their development process. The book discusses
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Friday, May 21, 2004 4:15 PM

Smart Paster for Visual Studio .NET

Alex Papadimoulis has created a plug-in for Visual Studio .NET called Smart Paster . From his description: I don't know about you guys (and gals), but I often find myself pasting large string literals (SQL queries or dialogs) into code. It started to
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Friday, May 21, 2004 12:07 PM

Designing Products for Offshore Development

A recent posting at Alan Cooper’s site talks about Designing Products for Offshore Development . It isn’t an in-depth article, but it does touch on some of the challenges that are faced when working with a disperse team whose culture, language,
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004 4:24 PM

.NET Show: Longhorn Avalon

There’s a new .NET Show on Longhorn Avalon : In this episode of the .NET Show David Ornstein and Pablo Fernicola discuss the purpose and benefits of the new graphical model for Longhorn. Later, Rob Relyea and Nathan Dunlap walk through some source
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Friday, May 07, 2004 8:59 AM

P/Invoke Add-In for Visual Studio .NET 2003

From the must-read-blog of Chris Sells comes word about an add-in for Visual Studio .NET 2003 that allows you to insert P/Invoke signatures by right-clicking in your source code. If that isn’t cool enough, you can also contribute P/Invoke signatures
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Thursday, May 06, 2004 4:27 PM

DotNet Spider

As many of you know, I’ve been working for quite some time on an application called NxOpinion . I’m privileged to work with a great development team at Sagestone (a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner), and one of our developers named Tony John
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Wednesday, May 05, 2004 7:51 PM

A Few Whidbey Commands for VS.NET 2003

Gaston Milano didn’t want to wait for Visual Studio .NET 2005 (Whidbey) to use a few handy commands, so he leveraged some of the IDE extensions and made them available to users of VS.NET 2003 . They’re all pretty simple, but I can already
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Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:06 PM

Longhorn M7.2 Bits Now Available on MSDN

A little earlier than I had expected (not that I’m complaining), but the Longhorn M7.2 bits are now available for download for MSDN subscribers. The 32-bit version checks in at just under 734MB and requires you to burn an ISO file to a bootable
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Wednesday, May 05, 2004 12:06 PM

Longhorn M7.2 Bits Coming to MSDN Subscribers

According to Chris Sells and his blog entry , MSDN Subscribers will soon be able to download the same version of Longhorn that is being given to WinHEC attendees this week. It will include the OS and the SDK. However, as Chris mentions, it will not include
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Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:21 AM

Lutz Roeder's Reflector 4.0

Oh yeah…I forgot to post this yesterday, but Lutz Roeder recently released a new version of his excellent Reflector for .NET tool. Go get it.
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Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:06 AM

Windows Forms 2.0 Screenshots

Thanks to Chris Sells for pointing out that the Windows Forms team has posted some screenshots and overviews of upcoming Windows Forms 2.0 features and controls . § WebBrowser control – finally, a managed wrapper of the IE ActiveX control §
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