Visual Studio
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It's been a long time since I've dabbled with software deployment technology, which is absolutely fine by me (in my experience installation issues are some of the gnarliest to deal with, so – presumably like the majority of developers, with apologies to Install specialists – I prefer not having to care about them, myself). But […]
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Thanks to Kristine Middlemiss, from our DevTech Media & Entertainment team, for bringing this very cool application to my attention. There a few Visual Studio Add-Ins that I can no longer do without. I use CopySourceAsHtml for every blog post of mine that includes source code, and I'm now just beginning to form a similar […]
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This question has popped up a few times since Visual Studio 2010's recent launch. I received it by email overnight from Roland Cox, which is interesting as I'd already planned this post for today. Do you know how to debug AutoCAD and a custom add in using Visual Studio 2010? What settings do I need […]
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This is a minor pet peeve of mine that I felt like sharing. Feel free to post a comment if you agree, disagree or have your own pet coding peeve to share with other readers of this blog. I quite often see .NET code that tests for the value of a Boolean to see whether […]
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In the first post in this series we looked at the basic (and free) capabilities of the upcoming version 6 of .NET Reflector. Today we'll look at the "Pro" capabilities, which integrate decompilation with debugging of 3rd party assemblies. To get started, we should see a new ".NET Reflector" toolbar inside our Visual Studio installation. […]
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As many of you will know, by now, I'm a big fan of Reflector. I've used it for quite some time, since its early days as a piece of freeware developed by Lutz Roeder, and overall it's proven to be an extremely valuable tool. When a UK-based company, Red Gate Software, acquired the Reflector technology […]
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As mentioned a few months ago, we've been working on a project wizard for AutoCAD .NET development. The official version of this tool is now available via the AutoCAD Developer Center (a direct link to the download can be found here). We incorporated a number of enhancement requests received from people working with the previous, […]
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While I'm a huge fan of learning and using different programming languages – whether to train your brain to consider different potential solutions to a problem or to improve your job security and your ability to roll with the punches as the employment & technology landscapes shift – you will no doubt have noticed that […]
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While not necessarily relevant when working with AutoCAD data, it's very common for people to want to make use of adjacent database systems when developing AutoCAD applications. For just this reason I've been meaning to post something on LINQ (and, in due course, PLINQ), but for now I recommend checking out this guest post from […]
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This post looks at the basic steps required to prepare your application to work with AutoCAD 2010. I've copied the information from the recently-published Platform Technologies Customization Newsletter, a quarterly newsletter available to ADN members. A big thank you to Stephen Preston, Fenton Webb and Gopinath Taget for putting the material together. AutoCAD 2010 software […]