Category Archives: Visual Studio

.Net4, WPF4 and VS2010 interesting links

.Net, General, Tools, Visual Studio, WPF

Since the release of VS2010 last week a lot of cool blog posts had been written. The thing is more than VS2010 itself, the Beta1 comes with .Net4 and WPF4 too, and that’s exciting too !

Because I didn’t have time yet to write my own feedback, I’m sharing some links I found the last couple of days.

Download

  • A full list of what is available to download (VS2010, .Net framework…) can be found here.

MSDN Documentations

  • .Net Framework4 Beta1: here
  • What’s new in .Net Framework4 Beta1: here
  • WPF4 Beta1: here
  • What’s new in WPF4 Beta1: here
  • VS2010 Beta1: here
  • What’s new in VS2010 Beta1: here

From Beta1 to Beta1 and RTM

  • Jaime Rodriguez wrote a very nice article today and share his “insider view” of what’s on the road to RTM.
  • Karl Shifflet explained on his blog what’s going to change in the DataBinding pipeline (no more dummy converter !)

Channel9

  • Interviews of WPF and Silverlight program managers.
  • Rob Releya is also talking on the new XAML stack available in the framework. More information can be found on his blog.

Other bloggers

And also, Blend3

  • Unni’s wrote an article about updates that had been made to Blend regarding user feedback on Connect.

Browse your codebase like a pro with ReSharper

Tools, Visual Studio, ,

I’ve already blogged about R# a couple of times. There is no doubt: it’s a must have for any serious .Net developper. A few weeks ago I learned and setup new shortcuts to improve my navigation skills in Visual Studio.

Here are the results… If I want:

  • to find a Type I hit Ctrl+T
  • to find a File I hit Ctrl+Shift+T
  • to find a Member (in a file) I hit Ctrl+Alt+T (Note: I setup this one on my own using Tools/Options/Keyboard)

A search box opens and I can start searching instantaneously.

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Here are the basic scenarios :

  • I want to open the ViewModelBase class, I hit Ctrl+T and then VMB (R# is able to search using capital letters)
  • I want to go to the OnPropertyChanged, I hit Ctrl+Alt+T and then OPC (same as previous example)
  • Finally, to open the file in the Solution Explorer I hit Shift+Alt+L

It’s simply amazing the time we can save using those simple shorcuts. Of course, you need to be quite familiar with your codebase (if you just arrive on a project it will be harder :p)