About code. Mostly on C++
I am using Visual Studio for many years, but I have to admit this came as a total surprise: the Find combo box in Visual Studio is more than just what the name says. Besides searching for files, you can use it for opening files, creating new files, setting breakpoints (in a smart way), going … Read more
I was pointed recently to this tool from CodePlex, called .NET Mass Downloader. Earlier this year Microsoft released (partially) the source code (with symbol files) for the .NET framework (version 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5). Visual Studio 2008 however downloads these files on-the-fly, as they are needed. This tool allows you to download all sources and … Read more
A new installation kit for the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack has been released. It’s recommended to uninstall the original pack (version 9.0.30304.0) and install the new one. The new feature pack is available at the Download Center. Before you install, make sure you read the note from the System Requirements paragraph; there is an … Read more
Yesterday Microsoft released the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack, formally known as MFC Feature Pack beta. The pack can be downloaded from Microsoft’s
I started a few days ago to study F# and I was struggling with some things that were not good documented. I want to share what I’ve learn from that and hopefully that will help others. After you download and install F# (available at http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/release.aspx) a new project template will be made available in VS … Read more
I’ve recently discovered a new nice feature in the natice debugger of Visual Studio 2008: the visualization of bit flags. Let’s take this enumeration for example. Notice that each constant is basically a bit flag. enum Weekdays { Monday = 1, Thuesday = 2, Wednesday = 4, Thursday = 8, Friday = 16, Saturday = … Read more
Microsoft launched yesterday Visual Studio Gallery, a site hosting Visual Studio extensions. Currently, there are over 350 such extension, free or per charge. The extension include macros, add-ins, packages, project templates. A good thing is that anybody can contribute with content to this gallery. There are some very good extensions available in the gallery. You … Read more
Microsoft announced yesterday that it released VS 2008 to manufacturing. For now, it is only available for MSDN subscribers. The official public release will happen on February 27, 2008 at Los Angeles. You can have an overview of the product here. You can read more about the product on the home page.
A couple of days ago, Somasegar has announced that Microsoft is on track to release Visual Studio 2008 before the end of November 2007. On the other hand, the marketing release will take place on Februarie 27, 2008 in Los Angeles, along with Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. You can read the announcement on … Read more
One week ago, Somasegar (Corporate VP for the Microsoft Developer Division) wrote on his blog that Microsoft will integrate F# (a functional language) in Visual Studio. We will be partnering with Don Syme and others in Microsoft Research to fully integrate the F# language into Visual Studio and continue innovating and evolving F#. In my … Read more