Articles from December 2009
As I have mentioned before I am working on a book that covers Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. So I have been playing with Visual Studio 2010 for quite a while now, and many of the common lines of feedback have been that the product is a great improvement in a lot of areas, however, there has been an overarching performance issue that has been plaguing various aspects of the new release. Late yesterday Scott Guthrie from Microsoft blogged a Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Update announcing that Microsoft is pushing the release date of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 back "a few weeks" to allow for a public release candidate in the February 2010 time frame.
Although I'm anxious to be able to use the new version of Visual Studio as some of the already existing performance improvements have been great. Especially the "Reference Dialog Load Time" improvement, which is just amazing. I'm glad to see that the feedback that all of the beta testers, MVP's and other people that have been testing and working with Visual Studio has been taken very seriously. I think with the additional time, they are going to be able to deliver a product that is that much superior!
Posted by Mitchel on Friday, December 18, 2009
I have talked to many developers that have one common feature request that we would like to see for Visual Studio, Spell Check. As a developer one of the most troubling things can be minor typo's in code after it has been completed. Although simple to fix, it can be embarrassing to have a typo that goes out in a module that a client is reviewing or that you put up for sale on SnowCovered. Well, today I got an email from Chad Nash at DataSprings, and they have a set of tools that are going to help us out on this front from a DNN module perspective.
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Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, December 16, 2009
After talking with a number of clients since last week, I thought it would be worthwhile to make a post here with a formal warning regarding upgrades to DotNetNuke 5.2. As announced at OpenForce US, DotNetNuke 5.2 contains the Telerik Controls for ASP.NET, which is a very good thing for DotNetNuke as a whole, however, it can cause massive problems for individuals that are already using the Telerik Controls as a site upgrade can end up rendering portions, or the entire site unusable, until DLL versions are restored. In this post I will give a bit of information regarding the scenarios that I have encountered and some guidance on how to protect yourself from upgrade issues.
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Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, December 02, 2009
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