Posts tagged with csharp
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12 April 2010 - What’s new in Visual Studio 2010 part 1: quick overview of the key improvements
A quick overview of the new features of Visual Studio 2010 from the point of view of a professional programmer and to help you decide whether or not to upgrade yet — read article
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12 April 2010 - Visual Studio 2010 Launch today: what’s new and really improves the developer’s experience?
Today Microsoft launches Visual Studio 2010 worldwide with several special conferences around the globe. In a series of articles I emphasize the changes and new features that you should look out for as a professional programmer or developer — read article
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19 October 2009 - Visual Studio 2010 roadmap: final release dates now known
Visual Studio 2010 is yet to become full beta 2, but employees already saw the preview and the final release date is announced. In a few days, it’ll finally hit the market. Be ready to download this cool new version packed with new features. A little article on an estimated roadmap until the final release date — read article
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21 September 2009 - All Syntax Highlighter 2.0 brushes collected, described and downloadable
Complete overview of all known available brushes for Alex Gorbatchev’s SyntaxHighlighter (aka Google’s Code Highlighter), including syntaxes / brushes found anywhere on the internet, added here for ease of use and direct downloading of each and every brush. Includes brushes-wishlist and is regularly updated — read article
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17 September 2009 - Comparison Chart of Online Regular Expression Testers, overviews and reviews
Online regular expression testers, information, programs and tools can help a great deal in finding the right regex for a given task. Unfortunately it can be daunting to find the right one. How do you know whether a free online regexp tool is javascript, or what server side language or flavor was used? Perl-style regexes, or old-school sed/awk? This article summarizes all known online regex tools and their abilities and is updated regularly — read article
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27 August 2009 - Overview of type suffixes in C# and VB.Net
Remembering type suffixes if your daily job is working with VB.NET or C#.NET is not easy. D can stand for
Decimalin VB and forDoublein C#. A C is not forCurrencybut forCharand M is not Million butDecimalin C#. Still with me? An overview of all these unintuitive type suffixes along with prefixes and plain text modifiers is provided here for convenience. In addition, an explanation of the secrets, lies and bugs these suffixes can introduce — read article
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21 August 2009 - Tip: Force UTF8 or other encoding for XmlWriter with StringBuilder
When you use an XmlWriter or XmlTextWriter and the output target is StringBuilder or StringWriter then it is not possible to set the encoding to anything else then UTF-16. This tip explains why this is designed this way by Microsoft and offers you a way around this all-too restrictive behavior of the XmlWriter, to allow — read article