January 2008 - Posts
So that's part 1: www.rickvandenbosch.net is now online. There's nothing to be found over there yet, but the domain has been delivered. Oh, and there's an easy redirect to my blog, so that goes back here ;). From now on, you can also use rickvandenbosch.net/blog as the url to find my blog. I'm currently talking to the bloggingabout.net admin to mirror my content over there, for now it's just a redirect. Keep posted for more updates on the new domain.
As stated on ScottGu's blog in his latest post, the .NET Framework Library Source Code is now available. A detailed blog post about the steps to follow to enable .NET Framework source access in Visual Studio 2008 can be found at Shawn Burke's blog in this post.
Taken from Scott's post:
Once you follow the configuration steps in Shawn’s post above, you’ll be able to dynamically load the debug symbols for .NET Framework libraries and step into the source code. VS 2008 will download both the symbols and source files on demand from the MSDN reference servers as you debug throughout the framework code.
The last weeks have been filled with holidays and introductional days at my new employer. Because of that, I haven't had the time to realy dive into Visual Studio 2008, although I have played around with it since the RTM version was available. Since this week I've been writing some serious code in VS2008 for my new personal site (more about this later!). I can only agree with what Pieter de Bruin said in his post about the new line of developer tools and additions: "If you are building .NET 2.0 applications, you really should take a look at all of the above".
I'm already loving working with VS 2008. There have been numerous 'big' additions and changes which make a developers life so much easier. But how about all the little ones? The ability to run a unittest from the contextmenu of the code editor, the 'remove unused usings' possibility (finally!), the enhanced properties form for project properties and so on. All those changes are great! I'm curious what you think are the best additions/changes in Visual Studio 2008. Care to share? Add your favorite at my 'Best Visual Studio 2008 enhancements' list at Listas.
Dennis already blogged about it: we had some problems with the availability of BloggingAbout since last night. The error was fixed this afternoon, so everything should be back to normal. If you're experiencing any difficulties, please let me know through the contact form, or mail me at rick.van.den.bosch[at]bloggingabout.net.
Today was the first of two introduction days at Avanade. Maybe you missed it, but I started there today. And that's why I'm writing this blogpost from a hotel in Almere, using my new Avanade laptop. ;)
I'm sure there will be lots of stuff to blog about, so stay tuned for more...
All the best for the year 2008!
I hope we will be hearing/reading a lot of each other this year ;)