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Troubleshooting pkgdef Files - The Visual Studio Blog
For those using the Visual Studio 2010 SDK to create extensions for Visual Studio, you should find the creation and use of .pkgdef files to be mostly automatic (see What's a PkgDef and Why? ). However, like anything involving computers and software, there are occasions that require manual intervention because they aren’t covered by the automatic settings or things can go wrong. This article illustrates some possible issues with .pkgdef files and provides techniques for discovering what’s wrong and correcting them.
Decorate Your Code with Astonishing Attributes
hen I first saw attributes in Visual Studio .NET, I thought they were some sort of oddity Microsoft had dragged in from Java, C++, or perhaps the Delta Quadrant. They clearly aren't Visual Basic code. To someone who uses angle brackets only for comparing two numbers, this Property statement, <XmlIgnore(True)> Public Property Salary() As Decimal , looks like it's been infected by the Borg! In fact, attributes don't look like code because they aren't code. They're really code "decorations" that supply extra information related to the code to anyone or any process that cares.
Visual Studio Extensions
Here's a preview of the new managed project system tutorial. It's written for Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio SDK 1.0, and Windows Vista. Submitted by Martin Tracy.
Tutorial: A Simple Managed Project System - Visual Studio Extensibility User Education
In most applications certain user interface areas are shared among various modules. Examples are all kinds of menus, tool bars, status bars, Outlook style sidebars and others. What is common for all of them is that they serve as containers for collections items (menu items, toolbar buttons, etc.) that user can activate to trigger some actions in the application.
Understanding Composite UI Application Block, Part V
ThunderClap, Vol. 7, No. 2: Microsoft's Composite UI Application Block (CAB) -- A Prefabricated Toolkit for a Modern Smart Client App, and an in-house training class on it
Thunderclap, the Newsletter of Rolling Thunder Computing Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 2005 In this issue: Feature Article: The Composite UI Application Block -- A Prefabricated Toolkit for a Modern Smart Client App Blatant Self-Promotion: New in-house class on Composite UI Application Block A Good Read: Two Books about Funerals by Thomas Lynch
Understanding the TypeDescriptor: A Metadata Engine for Designtime Code - Partho's Weblog
Hi folks - long time no see... E.L.D.S. ? Yeah, sure!
From what I see, in this version, Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation doesn’t allow you to author and use business rules without a link to an activity or a workflow… Also, the types of rules you can create are somewhat limited… After spending some time trying to fit WF into what I needed, I recalled the simplicity of the Microsoft ScriptControl object that allowed you to run VBScript or JavaScript code snippets, and even allowed to pass in parameters… I wanted to have a mechanism where I can execute a .NET code snippet that was not previously compiled with the simplicity of the following statement: ScriptEngine.Evaluate(codeBody, methodToInvoke, methodParameters); So, I decided to create a class that can compile and run C# code on the fly… Imagine being able to create your business rules in C# (or VB.NET), maintain them in some secure but easy to edit place like database, and execute them when needed… Here is my code (as always, use at your own risk, etc…):
SYSK 293: Business Rules – Easy, Flexible, Decoupled - AppDev: Something You Should Know by Irena Kennedy
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging;
Programatic Configuraton - Enterprise Library (v2.0) Logging Block
ObjectBuilder Dependency Injection Framework
Code Plex Project Hosting for Open Source Software ObjectBuilder Dependency Injection Framework About ObjectBuilder ObjectBuilder is a framework for building dependency injection systems, originally written by the Microsoft patterns and practices group.
Enterprise Library : Configuration Part 1.1.3 - ConfigurationContext - Being Scott Densmore
Last week I did a podcast (why do we call it that when we use the WMA format?) with Ron Jacobs on the ConfigurationContext. I know that the talk was abstract and probably a little hard to follow and I hope to clear that up today with another explanation and samples. I want to start off by saying that we intentionally did not document this “feature” because: a) we ran out of time , b) we knew it was a hard concept to cover, and c) I didn’t think people would be that interested (see what you get when you assume things). What is the ConfigurationContext ?
patterns & practices Developer Center February 2012 Prism provides guidance designed to help you more easily design and build rich, flexible, and easy-to-maintain Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) desktop applications and Silverlight Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and Windows Phone 7 applications.