Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta

Last night I downloaded the latest beta version of the amazing Visual Studio IDE’s and I must say it looks amazing and is looks very different than any that have come before it.

One of my minor niggles with all previous versions was the lack of multi-monitor support but the latest beta from Microsoft is the first version to offer this support and so far the results are excellent.

Having an entire monitor free to display a page of code without any clutter while having all my Solution Explorer , Properties and Class View windows available and docked on the second monitor (along with more code windows if needed) will be an great productivity boost.

There are lots of new features to play with and I shall blog about them one by one as I get to know them more but the first thing I will say is how nice it looks in Windows 7. The start-up and performance seems good for now. Certainly no slower than VS2008. The UI was apparently written in WPF which is the first commercial application that I have seen that has been written in WPF.

That’s enough for this post as I have a couple of projects that I am working on that I can test this new version on as well as testing out a few “File New” projects.

Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta now.

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jQuery and Visual Studio Intellisense do not want to play together

“Error updating JScript IntelliSense: jquery-1.3.2.min-fds90[1]..js: Object doesn't support this property or method @ 32:399”

I have the hot fix installed and at some point it has worked but I don’t think the .vsdoc file plays well with others as the only other thing that I can think of is that I use the jQuery UI library along with a table sorting library.

I don’t really need it but it’s nagging me to the point of madness not being able to get it working!

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Cross-thread operations with PostSharp

1	public void ShowStatus(ApplicationStatus status)

2

{

3	this._lblServiceAddress.Text = "Connected to: "

4	+ status.WebServiceAddress;

5	this._lblUserId.Text = "Working as: "

6	+ status.UserId;

7

}

via lesnikowski.com

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Command Query Responsibility Segregation - Udi Dahan

via vimeo.com

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Microsoft Ajax Content Delivery Network - ASP.NET Ajax Library

Microsoft CDN have updated jQuery to 1.4.1

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UI Prototyping/Mockup tools you should be using

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JQuery 1.3 and Visual Studio 2008 IntelliSense

jquery-1.3.2.min.js
jquery-1.3.2.vsdoc2.js
Visual Studio 2008 SP1
KB958502 hotfix applied and still received the Object doesn't support this property or method @ 18:9345 error.
Fixed by renaming both by renaming both JS files.
jquery-1.3.2.js (remove min)
jquery-1.3.2.vsdoc.js (remove 2)

just wanted to share since it took me forever to find the solution.

via blogs.ipona.com

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Smelser.NET | Is my code Fluent?

public static class FluentCommentExtensions
{
    public static NonFluentComment By(this NonFluentComment instance, string commentorsName)
    {
        instance.CommentedBy = commentorsName;
        return instance;
    }

    public static NonFluentComment Says(this NonFluentComment instance, string comment)
    {
        instance.Comment = comment;
        return instance;
    }

    public static NonFluentComment RatedYou(this NonFluentComment instance, ushort rating)
    {
        instance.Rating = rating;
        return instance;
    }

    public static NonFluentComment CanBeContactedAt(this NonFluentComment instance, string commentorsEmail)
    {
        instance.CommentorsEmail = commentorsEmail;
        return instance;
    }
}

via smelser.net

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Using CDN Hosted jQuery with a Local Fall-back Copy - Jon Galloway

1	<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>

2	<script type="text/javascript">

3	if (typeof jQuery == 'undefined')

4

{

5	document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='/Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));

6

}

7

</script>

via weblogs.asp.net

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UK Government Launches Open Data Site: data.gov.uk

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/01/20/uk-government-launches-open-data-site-datagovuk/

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SQLite on .NET in 3 minutes. Download to querying in no time flat. | MikeDuncan.com C# Dev tips, patterns and tools you can actually use.

http://www.mikeduncan.com/sqlite-on-dotnet-in-3-mins/

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ASP.NET Support in ReSharper 5 - Hadi Hariri - Devlicio.us - Just the Tasty Bits

http://devlicio.us/blogs/hadi_hariri/archive/2010/01/20/asp-net-support-in-resharper-5.aspx

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Lifehacker - Firebug 1.5 Updates with New Features, Still a Web Developer's Dream [Downloads]

http://m.lifehacker.com/site?sid=lifehackerip&pid=IphonePost.detail§ion=Allpost&targetId=Lifehacker-5453025

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Lifehacker - Firebug 1.5 Updates with New Features, Still a Web Developer's Dream [Downloads]

http://m.lifehacker.com/site?sid=lifehackerip&pid=IphonePost.detail§ion=Allpost&targetId=Lifehacker-5453025

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Large or asynchronous file uploads in ASP.NET MVC | dimebrain

http://dimebrain.com/2010/01/large-or-asynchronous-file-uploads-in-asp-net-mvc.html

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Project Rosetta: UI Tutorials for Designers and Developers

via visitmix.com

This has been dropped into my learning queue

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Writing A Custom File Download Action Result For ASP.NET MVC

via haacked.com

Also mentions that ActionResults follow the Command Pattern.

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Editable Routes

via haacked.com

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NHibernate, polymorphic associations and ghost objects

via ayende.com

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Learning in the Open: I – Starting with ActiveRecord

via devlicio.us

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ASP.NET MVC 2: Strongly Typed Html Helpers - ScottGu's Blog

via weblogs.asp.net

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Lightweight Task Scheduling Library for .NET / Silverlight

via hardcodet.net

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ASP.NET Performance - Part 4 - CDN

Part 4 of a series on ASP.NET performance.

http://codebetter.com/blogs/karlseguin/archive/2010/01/12/asp-net-performance-part-4-cdn.aspx#

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Ambiguous Controller Names With Areas

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Classifieds Starter Kit

An open source classifieds starter kit name trading center has been released.

More details on the following blog post:
http://weblogs.asp.net/reganschroder/archive/2010/01/16/trading-center-my-advancing-of-the-classifieds-starter-kit.aspx

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ASP.NET MVC 2: Model Validation

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/01/15/asp-net-mvc-2-model-validation.aspx

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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Launch Date

"Short but sweet, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will launch on Monday, 12 April 2010."

Published Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:18 PM by Rob Caron

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SamGentile/~3/j7zWBpobL7U/

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Trapped at work!

Service Condition Report

The latest travel news from the Oxford Bus Company at 0945

The conditions have deteriorated so badly in the last hour. The roads are now so dangerous that we have had to suspend all our services for the time being. Many of the main roads are now like ice rinks.

The espress service to London and the airline service to Heathrow and Gatwick have been suspended too as its impossible for us to get out of the city centre safely.

We have told our drivers to complete the journeys they are currently on and then return as carefully as possible to the depot.

We will review the situation again at 2pm.

via oxfordbus.co.uk

I'm trapped at work!

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Oz firm seeks talented IT developer • The Register

via theregister.co.uk

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Google suggests Islam is nothing • The Register

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I wonder what happens if you type 'the register is' into google. Or 'google is' ?

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How to Change your Blogger Title Tags

via bloggingtips.com

A simple copy and paste operation from within the blogger template editor and now my blogger blog now has more SEO friendly page titles.

My posterous blog already has this optimisation but my blogger template is quite old now.

Nice tip

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SCOPE_IDENTITY and @@IDENTITY broken on SQL 2005 and SQL 2008??!

Check out this website I found at connect.microsoft.com

It is late admittedly and I am just skim reading at the moment but unless I am very much mistaken SCOPE_IDENTITY and @@IDENTITY which are the inbuilt SQL Server functions for returning the newly inserted unique identifier are broken in SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008.

Not good. Time to re-read this and have a rummage about on google.

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Schema Compare does not support SQL Server 2008

Today I needed to compare the schema between two SQL Server 2008 databases and modify one database from the schema of the other.

In the past I have used the excellent tools from RedGate but I did not have them installed on my netbook however it gave me a chance to use the schema and data compare tooling in Visual Studio 2008 Team System edition that I do have installed on my netbook.

Going through the connection wizard setup Visual Studio gave me the following error message:

Schema Compare does not support SQL Server 2008

A bit of googling later and I found this patch that sorts this out:

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR R2

After installing this I was able to get going and successfully update my database as you can see from the screenshot below:

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Making Sense of ASP.NET Paths - Rick Strahl's Web Log

Check out this website I found at west-wind.com

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Convert a .NET 2.0 DLL to 4.0 (VS2010) without source

via blog.paulbetts.org

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Html Agility Pack

Check out this website I found at codeplex.com

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Free screen color picker from ColorSchemer

via colorschemer.com

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Where Does it Hurt?

http://www.agileatwork.com/where-does-it-hurt/

TestiPhone.com - iPhone Application Web Based Simulator

http://testiphone.com/

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LogMeIn - Remote Access and Desktop Control Software for Your Computer

Check out this website I found at secure.logmein.com

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Subdomains for a single application with ASP.NET MVC

http://lukesampson.com/post/303245177/subdomains-for-a-single-application-with-asp-net-mvc

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