Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog : Interesting Find

Sandcastle Source Code Published

PeterRitchie — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:15:00 GMT

The source for the Sandcastle project has been published. This is great news.

For more information, see http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits.aspx.

Trace to output window without adding code.

PeterRitchie — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:08:00 GMT

Want to trace some run-time data to the output window while debugging without changing and recompiling your code? Use Tracepoints: http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/06/13/did-you-know-you-can-use-tracepoints-to-log-printf-or-console-writeline-info-without-editing-your-code-237.aspx

.NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1

PeterRitchie — Tue, 22 May 2007 17:45:00 GMT

I noticed mention of .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 on a Microsoft site today.

The BCL Team's latest blog entry http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2007/05/21/the-regexoptions-compiled-flag-and-slow-performance-on-64-bit-net-framework-2-0-josh-free.aspx mentions a fix that will make it into the .NET Framework 2.0 SP 1. Seems an inevitable release of SP1 for .NET Framework 2.0 is pretty official.

Using Toolbox for Code Snippets in Visual Studio 2005

PeterRitchie — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:23:00 GMT

Just noticed today that you can drag text into the Toolbox then repeatedly drag it back out wherever you want, into a Visual Studio source window.

Simply select some text in a source window, drag it over to the Toolbox tab (assuming you have Toolbox set to Auto Hide), wait for Toolbox to expand and drop the text wherever you want it.

Now you can simply open up the Toolbox and drag-drop that text whenever you want, much like a code snippet; but much faster (and without literals).

Interesting Find for Command Prompt junkies

PeterRitchie — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:29:00 GMT

Pipe data from a file or command to the clipboard in the Command Prompt!...(read more)