vb.net
I saw on Dan Appleman’s blog that a new version of his Visual Basic.NET or C#: Which to Choose? is available, reflecting the latest changes in VS.NET 2005. I immediately bought a copy from Lockergnome, apparently the only vendor that allows instant eBook downloads after purchase.* There
debugging
One of the most underappreciated features of Visual Studio .NET 2003 is the Command Window. Did you know there are a bunch of command alias shortcuts available for use in the command window? I use ‘?’ all the time, but I didn’t know about the others. And then there’s
.net
We recently switched to VS.NET 2003 (.NET 1.1) at work, yet we’re still using third party assemblies compiled under .NET 1.0. Now, ideally, you’d want assemblies recompiled to be sure that they are running as .NET 1.1. We happen to have a source license
outlining
Evidently the VB code outlining support is completely broken in VS.NET 2003. Why hasn’t this gotten more publicity? We used the code outlining features all the time at work in 2002, and they worked great. But after switching to VS.NET 2003 we noticed that selecting Edit, Outlining,
debugging
I’m looking forward to VS.NET 2005 like everyone else, but the one killer feature that will absolutely compel me to upgrade on day of release is Edit and Continue. I had no idea exactly how much time I spent editing live code in VB6’s debugger until I