Gaston Milano's WebLog
About something...
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Whidbey Usability Issues
I was working with Whidbey since the early betas and I'm still waiting for some changes in order to improve usability of the VS IDE on C# property pages.
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From a VSIP Package 2003 to VSIP Package 2005
I was converting some 2003 packages today so I gotta enumerate the most common tasks that you should do if you wanna do the same.
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Cool Commands for Whidbey
Some time ago I implemented some commands for VS 2003 that I called WhidbeyCommands because some commands were the same that in Whidbey (Close all but this, Show Container Folder, Copy Full Path).
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VS XAML Viewer Updated
The last week was a special week for me because we were releasing a new Deklarit upgrade first and second there were our company “Olympic Games” from Thursday to Saturday, our team was playing tennis, basket, soccer, volley, etc after work. So after the Olympic Games (on Sunday) I could not move my body anywhere J so I was watching TV and dedicated to finish a second version of the XAML Viewer.
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Xaml Viewer for Whidbey
At this time I suppose you know about the CTP for Avalon but may be you didn't install it yet. I have installed the CTP without problems, my installation order was:
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Resource Editor 1.2 for VS.Net
N. Chaudhry send me a new version of the code that I posted some time ago. He fixes some bugs and add the Rename action for strings, bitmaps, and icons. Thanks Chaudhry !!
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XML and Mvp.xml
Today almost every application has to work with XML file. In order to work with XML the framework gives us a couple of classes, the most used class XmlDocument.
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How to add references by automation
It's easy but I always forget the steps. I have to look in my code in order to remember. So here the steps:
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Inductive User Interface (IUI)
Since 2001, when the IUI guidelines were published there were a lot of comments about how useful is IUI.
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Give me a warning please !!
Actually it is common that programmers should switch between C# programming an C++ programming. This is my case, and when I switch to VC++ programming I really miss the C# compiler.
Today I spend 1 hour debugging (C++) because I wrote a code like this
CString Item::GetMessage()
{
CString sXml;
if (m_Info == NULL)
sXml.Format("%s", "Empty Item");
else
{
CString sXml;
sXml.Format("The Information is: %s", m_Info->GetInfo());
}
return sXml;
}
As you can see I redefined sXml, then my function always return "Empty Item" or "".
If you compile a similar code using C# compiler you are going to get an error ("A local variable named 'sXml' cannot be declared....").
So, C++ compiler please... Give me at least a warning !!