Patrick uses the awesome power of the assembly comparison feature of the tool NDepend to show exactly how much more there is in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: Summary: # Assemblies 112 # Namespaces 919 to 935 (+16 +1.7%) # Types 39 988 to 40 513 (+525 +1.3%) # Methods 387 421 to 386 790 (-631 -0.2%) # Fields...
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ScottGu makes it official today. There is a whole lot of stuff here, and I think its safe to say that this is "stretching" the concept of a Service Pack. Scott's post has a lot of detail. The big ticket items are the Entity Framework and Astoria , but there is a lot of additive stuff. See Brad...
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My good friend, Tomas, is the master of Visual Studio themes. I was just looking at his latest, Distant Shores (too dark for my taste), where I finally picked up on Damien Guard's Envy Code R VS font. I also grabbed his Humane Studio theme which I am really digging right now. I think I'll go with this...
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I was given this information on the release of the .NET Framework Reference Code to give out: .NET Framework Reference Source Key Messages The developer community response to the .NET Framework Reference Source announcement last October was very positive. Access to the .NET Framework source code helps...
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I knew it was coming so I stayed up extra late last night but not long enough :) Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite with the .NET Framework 3.5 is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads ! See Soma's post here . While my copy is on the way, I would like to thank the whole extended team at Microsoft for an...
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So sayeth Don ? Soma's announced that Orcas will RTM this month . Lots of .NET families will have something extra to be thankful for next thursday...
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Us old time MFC/ATL programmers have appreciated having the library source code available to step into, debug with, and study. I've had access to BCL source code at times in NDA but now everyone can have access! ScottGu discusses making the source code to the .NET Framework publicly available . This...
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It's taken me three days and a bit of pain, but I finally have VS2008 installed on my Alienware/Vista. The biggest problems were in uninstalling Beta 1. There were a variety of problems but the main one was: Error 1324: the folder path ‘VS Tools for Office’ contains an invalid chacter I was...
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Its time! Orcas VS2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta 2 are available for download . There is a Go-Live license. Check out ScottGu's blog for details. Great job guys!...
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I mentioned back here that I was designing a Parallel Calculation Engine using Microsoft .NET. I actually am doing this as part of my team of three and we have learned quite a bit the last three weeks. For me, I haven't done much with just "straight" multithreading under .NET, by which I mean...
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