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Having been in IT for 32+ years, I have worked on a variety of hardware. I suppose the slowest computer I used was an IBM 360/25 (total RAM 15K), however the slowest PC to run Visual Studio was at a particular client site. In the morning after logging in, we would start our PCs, lock the keyboard and go to the drinks machine. We would stand there and drink one drink, get another and then go back to our PCs. After giving the three-finger salute (ctrl-alt-delete) and entering out password, visual studio ......
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Stylecop 4.7.17.0 has been released at
http://stylecop.codeplex.com/releases/view/79972It has added support for cultures into the Settings.StyleCop file. Currently supports en-US,en-GB, fr-FR, pl-PL, pt-BR and ru-RU.
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NASA is about to launch another X-Ray telescope - NUSTAR. It will achieve a much better angular resolution than previous telescopes. Source: SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration ......
The United States Geological Survey has just published a map of IO at http://gallery.usgs.gov/pho... ......
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There are numerous plug-ins for Notepad++ available at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/
I have just received an email notifying me that I am to be named as a co-discoverer of one or more Kuiper Belt Objects in a report to be made to the minor planets center.
From this list, the New Horizons team will select a second target for the spacecraft after it flys by Pluto.
Stylecop 4.7.16.0 has been released at
http://stylecop.codeplex.com/releases/view/79972#DownloadId=323236Release 4.7.15.0 - adds support for cultures into the Settings.StyleCop file.
Currently supports en-US,en-GB and fr-FR. More coming soon.
I created the MSTest project by creating a new class library project and copying the test classes to it. I then followed the instructions in the following posts.http://social.msdn.mi... I did not need to add the GUID fix as I used ReSharper to run both sets of tests ......
On this project I needed to provide unit tests both in NUnit and MSTest. I will write about this later.Once done, both projects ran without errors being detected. I loaded up the main project as source to CodePlex. (Resharper was very helpful in that it would run both sets of tests - thank you Jet Brains!) Can't code withoutIn-depth C# code analysis with instant errorand warning highlighting and quick-fixes ......
Today I started a new open-source project, based upon my CommonData project.
So what have I done so far.
- I have created a project on Codeplex.
- I have created some documentation at http://commoneventlog.codeplex.com/
- I have made a VS2010 version of my existing application MAKELOG
- Uploadloaded the utility MakeLog in its VS2010 form
- Published the project.
When you have to work with languages away from the many languages supported by Visual Studio, then a good text editor is a required. Now almost any text editor is better than Notepad but Notepad++ is excellent.
Download it from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/There are a variety of add-ons for Notepad++. Try it - it is an open source editor that is free.
Another good infographic - this one about sunspots and their effect on us.. Source SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration ......
Audacity 2.0 has been relesed at
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windowsIt is an excellent tool for recording and audio editing.
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Many programmers were introduced to computing by playing one of the the Star Trek games.
At
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Continuing my series of lessons learnt from practical experiance...
For some time my development PC has been running slow when acessing certain web sites such as Hotmail, yet when I used my wife's PC, same site performed OK. The problem I eventually tracked down to an HTML testing add-on, turned it off, restarted Firefox and then Firefox performance improved dramaticly. One particular area of improvement was that Silverlight no longer crashes when uploading a file to Hotmail.
So far Visual Studio is fine. The only things missing are:
- StyleCop does not recognise the current Resharper 7 EAP build
- Need the updated GhostDoc Pro
I have migrated one of my VS2010 projects to VS 11 Beta and no problems.
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The answer to this simple question is at http://devnet.jetbrains.net... forces you to use more thought in naming variables. Can't code withoutIn-depth C# code analysis with instant errorand warning highlighting and quick-fixes ......
Those hard-working developers at Jetbrains are making Resharper 7 for Visual Studio 11 Beta available by what they refer to as the Early Adopter Program (EAP).Build 7 EAP is just for Visual Studio 11 Beta and will run alongside Visual Studio 2010 / Resharper 6(.1)A given build of Resharper 7 EAP will run for 30 days using just an evaluation licence.Details are at http://blogs.jetbrains.com/... Can't code withoutIn-depth C# code ......
The install of the beta not altogether without problem. Three set up files were not found, however the set-up completed otherwise without issue. I have reported this problem at http://social.msdn.microsof... I have run VS2011 Beta - it opens and builds projects OK.I am now installing ReSharper 7 EAP for VS11 Beta from http://confluence.jetbrains... ......
At http://www.space.com/wallpa... there is a fine selection of wallpapers at a variety of resolutions to suit most monitors. Plenty Of Planets Omega Centuri The Great Red Spot ......
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At
http://www.youversion.com/mobile there is a free application for mobile devices called you version. A number of translations and paraphrases are available both in English and other languages.
Wireshark is a free tool for monitoring network traffic. The wireshark download is at http://www.wireshark.org/do... - there are downloads for Windows and several Unix platforms.At http://www.youtube.com/watc... Pluralsite have provided a short training video.There is an good introduction to WireShark at http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... is a screenshot courtesy of Wikipedia. Learn about addressing network performance management issues and enhancing ......
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Having burnt the DVD from the ISO file, I am now installing VS2012 Beta.
One requirement that is not clear from the VS2012 install is the amount of space required on the C drive. I reckon about 7Gb free on the C drive is required.
It is highly significant that a Go-Live licence is now available for Visual Studio 11 beta. The key sentence is "Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET Framework 4.5 Beta meet our high standards for pre-release software, so we support application design, development, test, and deployment in test and production environments.".Full details of the Go-Live at http://www.microsoft.com/vi... is still on-going with VS11. I intend to install VS11 on my development PC. ......
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Davey Winder of IT Pro at http://www.itpro.co.uk/6391... has raised the question "Are you ready to launch IPv6 securely?".The question is a good one - IPv6 has its official launch on 6/June/2012. Unix and windows have been ready for IPv6 for some time. ISP's and network administrators need to start making plans for the upgrade.O'Reilly have published an excellent book on Planning for IPv6 at http://shop.oreilly.com/pro... Chapter 1 of this ......
Scott Hanselman has posted an excellent article at
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudio11BetaInContext.aspx on Visual Studio 11 Beta which is now available for download.
At
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/268774/Learn-HTML5-in-5-Minutes there is an excellent article by Jennifer Marsman entitled "Learn HTML5 in 5 minutes". It does just what it says!
The article also addresses the issue of backwards compatibility.