Visual Studio
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Just released: a streamlined version of Visual Studio focused on developing data-centric business applications. Visual Studio LightSwitch is basically a set of templates/Wizards and runtime components that help you build and deploy applications for creating, editing and querying business data. The tool either installs on top of VS2010 or presumably installs its own Visual Studio […]
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I've been planning to look at it for ages – and have certainly mentioned it before – but other things have kept on cropping up. Well last Thursday, on my train trip back from Wallisellen (the home of Microsoft Switzerland), I finally managed to take the plunge and start working with the Async CTP for […]
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And yes, I do mean that literally. 🙂 Since starting this blog, 5 years ago – and even more in the last 2 years, since starting to develop and edit our Plugins of the Month for Autodesk Labs – I've been checking every line of code I've written to make sure it doesn't exceed 70 […]
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The topic of P/Invoke came up this morning in a discussion with Stephen Preston and Viru Aithal. Stephen mentioned a couple of interesting P/Invoke-related tools he'd stumbled upon, and Viru pointed me at an interesting technique he'd used for P/Invoking unmanaged member functions. In this post I'll present the tools, in a later post I'll […]
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Despite having worked for some time with a number of language features previewed for VS2008 and properly released in VS2010 (F# being a prime example), I've finally gotten around to installing VS2010 as my main .NET code development environment. To make sure I could get code across properly into my blog, I was able to […]
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This topic isn't at all specific to AutoCAD – in fact it was encountered by Adam Nagy with the recent Plugin of the Month he developed for Revit – but it seemed something people might hit. Thanks to Adam for proposing this topic and providing the information to share with everyone. 🙂 In recent versions […]
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Thanks for George Varghese and Albert Szilvasy from the AutoCAD Engineering team for this helpful tip (culled from an internal email discussion). If you've ever wondered how to reduce the noise AutoCAD makes in Visual Studio's output window while debugging – at least since AutoCAD 2009, when we integrated WPF for user-interface components such as […]
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Yesterday my two sons – who are now 6 and 4, both great ages – managed to get me to sit (several times, of course) on a whoopee cushion. Which brought back many fond memories of my brother and I playing similar tricks at around that age. What amazed me most was how the technology […]
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In the first part in this series, we looked at getting our basic installer to install files and in the second part we focused on checking and modifying the Registry. In this part we're going to finish up our installer by tweaking the user interface. Let's get started with some fundamentals: the name of the […]
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In the last post we created a basic installer to deploy our product files and source into a user-specified location. In this post we'll look at the Registry-related activities that need to happen from our installer. One of the files we added to the install project was the RegDL executable. We're going to add some […]