About code. Mostly on C++
Microsoft has made available a first beta version of an experimental version of .NET 4.0, called .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 Enabled for Software Transactional Memory v1.0. Since that is quite a long name, the short one is STM.NET. This is a special version of .NET 4.0 that enables software transactional memory for C#. It … Read more
Google has unveil the next product they will launch later this year. It’s called Wave and it’s a communication protocol. It’s like the email of the 21st century, but much more than that. Wave is a collaborative product. The waves are communication objects, both conversation and documents, allowing people to almost instantly communicate on the … Read more
There is a new search engine in town. It’s called Bing, and was created by Microsoft. Looks like they are going to invest massively in advertising it; according to AdAge, it will be between 80 and 100 million dollars. You can find a short video here, with Stefan Weitz, the director of Windows Live, talking … Read more
Visual Studio 2010 has support for code contracts that allow to express pre-, post-conditions and invariants to your .NET code. Let’ say you want to create a function to return a random value in a range. This could look like it: class Program { Random rng = new Random(); public int GetRandom(int min, int max) … Read more
Yesterday I have installed Visual Studio 2010 and decided to try my VSBuildStatusAddin. It work on the first try, only with a change to the .AddIn configuration file. Here is some screen shots in Visual Studio 2010. The images above show a new version of the add-in, 1.1.0. This new version provides the following features: … Read more
After 4 releases of Visual Studio with Help 2 engine, Visual Studio 2010 will bring yet another change: a new help engine, called MS Help 3. The first beta will ship only with online support, but the second beta should contain offline support too. Changes in the new system include: the new help files have … Read more
I have fixed several bugs on version 1.0.4 of my VSBuildStatus add-in for Visual Studio that displays the status of a build/clean/deploy operation. The bugs were mainly about the batch builds. The new version is 1.0.5. You can download this Visual Studio 2005 & 2008 add-in from here. If you are using a previous build … Read more
I have modified my VSBuildStatus add-in to work with Visual Studio 2005. Basically I had to remove the LINQ stuff to break the dependency on the version 3.5 of the .NET framework. The new version (1.0.3) that supports Visual Studio 2005 is available here. Let me know if you have any problems with it. Especially … Read more
Axialis Software offers this 50% off sale on all their products for today only. This is a short notice, but if you are looking for an icon or cursor editor, IconWorkshop or CursorWorkshop are the ones to go with. I’m using IconWorkshop for some time and I find it a great tool for creating and … Read more
Axialis released a lite version of its IconWorkshop software, which is a great tool for creating and modifying icons (I’m using the full version and I find it easy to use and very productive). This lite version is available for Visual Studio 2008 users, and installs only if VS 2008 Standard or Professional is installed … Read more