In my current project, we have adopted Microsoft StyleCop as a tool to make sure everyone sticks to the same style of coding. One of the things we currently incorporate in our daily work is making sure our existing code conforms to the rules we agreed on. Today however, StyleCop refused to check a class...
The Sandcastle project, Microsoft's tools to generate documentation from your well-documented code, is now available on CodePlex. That was already the case, but until about 2 month's ago, that was without the source code. You can now download Sandcastle including the source code from CodePlex...
Because I blog about Crystal Reports occasionally, and created a helper class to assist in integrating it into .Net applications, I get a lot of questions from people that have problems running their reports. Especially in production environments after they deploy the reports. Unfortunately, I'm...
Just as a small update on the use of StyleCop . I disagreed with some of the rules, like having to use spaces rather than tabs. It's not really an annoying rule, the only thing about it is that you have to agree on using spaces or tabs and then stick to it. But still, I found out you can tune StyleCop...
Or to be more specific, by Microsoft StyleCop . Now this may not be new to you, and that's very likely since StyleCop was announced in May of this year, but it was new to me. The tool checks your code for coding style and more specific, the Microsoft coding style. It was developed outside the VSTS...
VB6 and VB.Net developers know this feature: "Late Binding" and C# developers have often ridiculed that option. Buit it seems that the next version of Visual Studio will support a feature called "Dynamic type support". An article on this new feature can be found here , at Charlie...