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Monday, April 19, 2010
Visual Studio 2010
Posted: 4:40:00 PM 0 comments
I've got Visual Studio 2010 up and running both at work and at home, and so far it's been pretty smooth. A few things that I ran across that I don't particularly care for, but have made a workaround for:

  • You can't use the standard FixedSys font in the editor. Because it's using WPF, it can't use old fonts like FixedSys. The solution is to pick up this TTF replacement. It's the best one out there.

  • I like a dark environment, complete with a black background and a bunch of highlights, especially for comments and literal strings. Apparently, Microsoft doesn't. They make the background of anything that's not the background of the page translucent, resulting in a darker color when seen against a black background. Further, multiple lines with background colors aren't filled in, leaving annoying-looking, thin black lines between each and every line of text that has a highlight in it. This is fail. Fortunately, this fix takes care of both.


I've begun working on getting all of my code into Visual Studio 2010, although the C++ projects are going to prove a little more painful, possibly more so than they are worth. Cent and Constellation may have to remain on 2008 until I can figure out a way to get them working again.

But so far, 2010 kicks ass. Code Analysis is fun to play with, and reducing all my VB.Net properties to one line is just delicious. I'm not going to go to the .Net 4.0 Framework just yet, although that is indeed the next logical step, and with luck it will come possibly next week.

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Friday, November 18, 2005
SQL Server & Visual Studio 2005
Posted: 5:09:00 AM 0 comments
Took my first crack at SQL Server and Visual Studio 2005 tonight. My first thought: It's a lot of fluff. Things are prettier, but they don't do too much differently.

They completely redesigned the client tools for SQL Server 2005, and I'm not entirely sure they got it right yet. There's some annoyances I've had using it at work, including how projects are done with the connections that you have to open every time, and there's a bunch of bugs with the "save password" check box that doesn't seem to always save.

Visual Studio 2005 on the other hand is for the most part bug-free from what I can tell. I did a bunch of ASP.Net 2.0 work tonight, and the master page solution is simply awesome. I don't like the way namespaces work, though, and I found it difficult at first to figure out the coding architecture.

I can't wait to start converting some VB.Net solutions over to see the improvements to that language. Perhaps the Google Desktop project I've been working on will finally work. Hmmm...

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Friday, July 08, 2005
Plugging it in
Posted: 8:09:00 PM 0 comments
After the hideously long VS.NET 2003 installation, I finally got to playing around with the C# code. What I wanted to do was learn how to create plug-ins in Visual Basic, so that I can hot-swap compiled code in an application I am working on. It took some messing around and a lot of trial and error, but I finally got it working in VB.NET, so I'm pretty happy about that.

Damn, I got something done. That feels good. I think I'm going to go spend some time with Mr. Driller as a reward. Yes, the original Mr. Driller by Namco. It's got some DirectX issues with the latest versions, but overall it's a lot of fun. My best unlimited mode depth is 20,715 feet right now. We'll see if I can't break that.

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What the..?
Posted: 3:25:00 PM 0 comments
So I go to open up a project downloaded from MSDN. It's in C#, so I figure I'll just open it up in Visual Studio.NET and convert it to VB by hand. Wouldn't be the first time I've done it.

I unzip and open the directory and, to my surprise, the icon for the solution file is generic. I scratched my head and opened up Visual Studio manually to try to open the file.

"This file has been created in a later version of Visual Studio .NET."

Whaaaaat?!

Did some searching, and sure enough, VS.NET 2003 wasn't installed on my computer. Terribly frustrating, as I don't remember when I ever uninstalled it.

Whatever.

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