Visual Studio
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I don't normally talk about product offers, but then it occurred to me that some readers would find this promotion of interest. Microsoft is making Visual Studio 2008 available to first-time purchasers at the upgrade price, as long as they are using another development tool, including free tools such as Visual Studio Express Editions. It […]
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This comment came in from a developer on a previous post: We still do all our stuff w/C++/STL/COM/MFC; lots of custom entities and object behavior - for Civil 3D/Land Desktop/Map -- hence, I'm not Dot Netted. The predominate explanation I've heard to move from C++ to .Net is that UI is maybe easier to write...but […]
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As mentioned in this previous post, I had the great pleasure of spending a day up at Microsoft Research in Cambridge last week. My host, Don Syme, took great care of me and was very generous with his time and knowledge. Some background on why I decided to request a meeting with Don: Don is […]
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This just may be the catalyst I needed to get around to installing Visual Studio 2008: the availability of the F# September 2008 Community Technology Preview. This takes F# an important step closer to being a full .NET citizen, with the first release delivered by Microsoft's Developer Division (the previous releases having been delivered by […]
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A member of our AutoCAD Engineering team pointed me at this very cool tool - the Framework Design Studio. The wiki doesn't really do it justice, so here's a post describing what the tool does. I also found it a little trick to get to the download, so here's the latest version at the time […]
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I've mentioned before how much I appreciate the content on MSDN's Channel 9. For those of you who are familiar with C# 1.0, but haven't yet taken the time to dive into the language features introduced since then, I strongly recommend the "whirlwind" series posted on Channel 9. Here's a quick description of what these […]
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I've talked about Lutz Roeder's Reflector tool a couple of times and it's proven to be very useful to me, once again. I mentioned in my last post about some problems I was having with tail recursion, and my choice to replace certain recursive functions with iterative versions. Today we're going to use Reflector to […]
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A quick post, for now, just to point you to this blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sburke/archive/2008/01/16/configuring-visual-studio-to-debug-net-framework-source-code.aspx This will only work with Visual Studio 2008, it seems, so I haven't yet tested this out myself (I tend to be a laggard when it comes to Visual Studio, for some reason). A quick note on what I've been up to […]
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Jeremy Tammik, from our DevTech EMEA team, pointed me to this useful and interesting site: http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/benchmark.html It introduces a very easy way to benchmark functions in your application by simply tagging them with a [Benchmark] attribute (you also need to have included the C# file posted on the above site in your project, of course). […]
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In parts 1 & 2 of this series we looked at metaprogramming with AutoCAD using AutoLISP and VB(A), and then using VB.NET and C#. In this post we're going to look at what's possible from F#, through the lens of my relative inexperience with the language, of course. The quotations mechanism in F# appears to […]