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23. december 2005 14:38

Problems debugging BackgroundWorker and solution

Did you ever set a breakpoint within BackgroundWorker execution (worker thread), hit it and then application would stall. It is certainly a strange behavior. Apparently the problem happens because debugger calls into ToString() of the BackgroundWorker's
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22. december 2005 22:52

Two things you should know when upgrading DevExpress' WinForms Component Collection for VS2005 from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2

There are two things you have to know: don't do a simple upgrade. Rather uninstall previous version, clean GAC, Program Files and Common Files and do a fresh install. There seems to be an issue in previous installer. No big deal. The other issue is with
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21. december 2005 16:19

WinFX December CTP is out

I am bit late to the party, however, if you don't know yet, WinFX December CTP has been released for download (there is a separate downloads for SDK as usual). And the most interesting download available is Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” Community
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21. december 2005 11:36

Do you need a cheap/excellent backup application?

If you need a cheap/excellent backup application look no more. There is SyncBackSE from 2BrightSparks. This backup application is created in the same way I would create it. It has tons of features (worth mentioning synchronization feature - you can keep
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21. december 2005 11:33

Community Server 2.0 beta 2 upgrade rolled back for me

Since I've upgraded my CS blog engine to 2.0 beta2 I had problems posting - IOW I couldn't post anymore. Thus I've rolled back to CS 1.1 for the time being so you can read more news from RightHand. Isn't Virtual Server just beautiful for this kind of
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18. december 2005 13:23

Upgrading Community Server to 2.0 beta 2

I'll be upgrading my Community Server 1.1 to 2.0 beta 2 today hopefully, thus expect some problems before the upgrade is complete.
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17. december 2005 10:07

Community Server 2.0 beta 2 is out

Fine Telligent folks have just released Community Server 2.0 beta 2. Go check it out here . Also, it seems that RTM has been pushed back to February 2006.
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16. december 2005 10:57

FinalBuilder 4 is out and very useful

If you do serious development then you probably know that you have to deliver executables to your client or to a tester occasionally or perhaps every day, every week, etc. When the project grows it becomes more and more annoying and error prone building
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16. december 2005 10:35

Infragistics joins the "we don't support VI group"

I saw Andrej 's post on the new Infragistics Netadvantage Vol. 3 for CLR 2.0 (VS2005/.net 2.0 that is) and went investigating what's up. As you remember weird things are going on with VS 2005's visual inheritance support. Fortunately, Developer Express
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16. december 2005 10:18

Nice managed DirectX Tutorials

If you are learning managed DirectX you'll certainly appreciate nice tutorials, such as these (found them via Z Buffer ).
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14. december 2005 10:54

New ADO.NET 2.0 book: Professional ADO.NET 2: Programming with SQL Server 2005, Oracle, and MySQL is out

My friend and a MVP Bill Ryan co-authored a brand new ADO.NET 2.0 book Professional ADO.NET 2: Programming with SQL Server 2005, Oracle, and MySQL . I haven't seen the book yet, but judging by names involved I guess it is worth checking it out. Anyway,
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14. december 2005 10:32

CodeRush and Maintenance Complexity

Did you ever wonder what does mean CodeRush’s Maintenance Complexity tool window (accessible via DevExpress/Tool Windows/Metrics menu item). Here is Mark Miller’s blogging about it and it explains what those numbers actually means. I examined few classes
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11. december 2005 12:54

If you are still on .net 1.1 there is a post SP1 hotfix

If you are still using .net 1.1 you might be interested in this post service pack 1 hotfix for System.Windows.Forms.dll released by Microsoft (thanks to Jochen Kalmbach for the info). From the info page: "The following issues are fixed in this hotfix
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9. december 2005 23:08

How to upgrade application version and not loose user application settings

If you have been using or considering using new application settings feature in VS 2005 you might be wondering how not to loose user settings when you increment assembly version. The thing is that user settings are not automatically upgraded and you loose
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3. december 2005 20:13

SLODUG/INETA Visual Studio 2005/SQL Server 2005 launch event

SLODUG/INETA invites you to SLODUG/INETA Visual Studio 2005/SQL Server 2005 Slovene users group launch event on 7th December starting at 17:00. The event will take place in Microsoft Slovenija, Šmartinska cesta 140, Ljubljana conference room. You'll find
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2. december 2005 9:53

Upgrading DevExpress WinForms controls to 2.2.1

As soon as I downloaded the new WinForms Component Collection 2.2.1 for Visual Studio 2005 I installed them, turned the visual inheritance "experimental" support on opened an existing project. It won't compile though because you have to manually update
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1. december 2005 12:56

Slides of my "What's new in .net 2 framework and programming languages" presentation

Yesterday I held "What's new in .net 2 framework and programming languages" presentation at VS2005/SQL2005 launch event . You can find slides (in Slovene) here . Are you ready to rock?
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1. december 2005 11:54

Developer Express reintroduced visual inheritance support

I have to admit that this Thursday really surprised me in positive way. Or better, Developer Express guys did it. They just released a service release of their Windows Forms range of products with enabled support for visual inheritance as it was in old
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