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Wed, Mar 18 2009 17:21

Intel Parallel Studio - a tool you will want

I've been using the Beta of this tool for a while now and its amazing. Do yourself a favour and download it - http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-sdp-home/ Note: on the webpage it says that there is a non-commercial version, I'm not sure what...
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Sun, Oct 5 2008 12:31

A good book on Vim commands and a Vim emulator for VS

I've used Vim for quite some time on Windows (yep, not quite a Vim purist...) however, I have never actually read a book on Vim. For those who don't know Vim is an awesome text editor with a really powerful set of commands you can issue via the...
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Tue, Sep 30 2008 22:35

Our cries have finally been answered then?

I for one am very happy that the next version of Visual Studio will finally embrace what some of us have been requesting for a long time now – UML adoption. A few months ago I mentioned some stuff that would be in the next version of VS and now that more...
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Fri, Sep 26 2008 18:20

Results: Using a dark theme in VS for a week

As I mentioned several days ago I’ve been seeing if a dark theme in VS would help my eyes a little. The short of it is – no, no it didn’t. The major sore point is that if you use a dark theme in VS then you find yourself constantly swapping between dark...
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Sat, Sep 20 2008 15:03

Experiment: Using a dark theme in VS for a week

I've been highly critical of using dark themes in Visual Studio particularly because the UI of VS is light in its very nature. The combination of the two proving to be an interesting proposition when using VS for large durations of time. I digress...
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Mon, Aug 11 2008 12:26

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 released

Download . Some stuff it includes: Some new WPF designer stuff (not sure what though - not really my area) ADO.NET Entity Designer Office MFC stuff (not sure if it also includes TR1, these two were bundled together earlier on in the year) Some improvements...
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Sat, Aug 9 2008 13:39

Hang on! I've been mentioned on This Week on C9!

I think I'm almost famous. I'm mentioned 10:47 - 12:25. The mentioning was in response to my Visual Studio vNext wish list . Check out the video .
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Mon, Aug 4 2008 5:20

My Visual Studio vNext wish list

My wish list for Visual Studio vNext isn't that long. The things I would like to see in Visual Studio vNext (I'm not that hopeful) are the following: A filtering intellisense members list box Some intelligent suggestions More refactoring options...
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