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This is probably an oldie, but only today have I lost patience with the Error List window. I'm fed up with the hundreds of HTML validation errors it shows, hiding the real build errors. Half the time my HTML source view shows that <asp tags are
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Call me a control freak, but I really dislike the magical aspects of VS 2005 & ASP.NET 2.0. You know, the times where HAL VS2005 says "We'll fix that up for you, don't worry how". Or "You don't have to write code, just give
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Hey, IE Team, when I start debugging you open a new browser window but IE7 has got me into the habit now of using tabs all the time so when I want to open other pages, docs etc I quickly have 5-6 tabs open while debugging. So why do you close the whole
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I don't know James Cansdale personally, but I do find this MVP situation very interesting. No, that's bollocks actually, it's more than "interesting". Roy says it best : "Legal issues aside, Jamie "fixed" a mistake
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Three weeks since my last post, and I've had something interesting to talk about almost every day. The last few days have been a blur of typing as I implement the coolest thing since sliced bread. But I can't tell you about it, so you'll have
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I like a clean output window when I'm building in Visual Studio; I fix warnings so that all I see in the window is a bunch of "0 errors, 0 warnings". So Visual Studio 2005 gave me some work to do. Although I've been using 2005 for a
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Have I finally found something that chaps my butt enough to get off my lazy ass and start blogging again? Yes, I jolly well think I have. And it's nice to be back, thanks. (No,my blog is still not on Community Server, even though everyone else in the
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I keep hearing on mailing lists, forums and now blogs about the new Consolas font for Visual Studio . Consolas Conschmolas. Yuck. It may be a prettier or technically superior monospaced font, but it's still a monospaced font, which suck. Why do programmers
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While playing with CS 2.0 and WF in VS 2005 I found that most people were debugging by attaching to the aspnet_wp process. Although this works well, it's more convenient to debug with F5, so I started poking around. Here are the steps I followed, but
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I'm proud to say that while I was at the ASP Insiders Summit in Redmond I found a couple of issues in ASP.NET 2.0! How cool is that, to actually be useful to the team that invites you. Ok, finding bugs isn't the help they probably want at this stage,
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No, I refuse to link to the same Visual Studio 2005 Update post that everyone else is. Just be patient furchrissakes. In any case, what does "launch date" matter? Everyone waits until the first few dot releases before installing outside of VPC , right?
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Scott Guthrie published a great article yesterday explaining how Visual Studio 2005's new web projects work . My favorite part? This feature of the Team System integration: Ability to measure and precisely quantify the percentage of code exercised by
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Isn't the aim to get slashdot to link to you, not the other way around? Red Gate Software 's newsletter pointed me at slashdot this morning for a review of Expert .NET Delivery Using NAnt and CruseControl.NET by Marc Holmes. As you know, I've been thinking
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Unfortunately, VS2005 and/or MSBuild is not going to allow us to build applications targetted at .NET 1.0 or 1.1 frameworks. Why is this a big deal? Well, to most people it isn't frankly, but ISV's need to offer products that run on 1.0 because that's
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So, onto the next stage of the problem! Now that everything is a) built under .NET 1.0, b) delay-signed, c) obfuscated and d) signed again it runs perfectly. I tested every page and every user control and fixed all the bugs introduced from obfuscation.
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