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I find it annoying that VS 2005 opens the Forms editor when you double-click on a source file for a form. Dammit Jim, I’m a programmer! I want to see the code. I searched high...

I love little gems like this one. Comment Reflower is a plugin for Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 that word wraps comments in source files. It’s fairly intelligent in that it tries to stylize comments...

Bloget Alpha 2 is ready for download. So what’s new you ask? The two major new features of this release are Pingback support and logging. Pingback is a popular protocol that enables authors keep track...

Dr. Dobbs Portal has an interesting interview with members of the MSDN Wiki team. The MSDN Wiki was launched last June with the goal of extending the documentation for VS2005 and the .NET Framework. Although...

Microsoft has posted guidelines and FAQ’s for using Visual Studio 2005 on Vista. Looks like you’re out of luck if you’re using Visual Studio 2002 or 2003. While we have made tremendous investments in Windows...

Robert Scoble, notable blogging personality and former Microsoft employee, talks about his feelings now that it Windows Vista has released to manufacturing. Of particular interest are comments 15 and 19, both from a WPF Program...

CopySourceAsHtml is a free Visual Studio 2005 add-in that lets you copy source code as HTML. It even preserves the color coding. CopySourceAsHtml addes itself to the right-click menu so it’s easy to use. There...

Election day is here. Did you vote? I did and I had to wait in line which is unusual in an off-year election. I’m a Democrat. Not like anyone reading this blog couldn’t figure that...

Testing pingback Testing another pingback.

Using COM in managed code can seem like uneasy truce at times. Take the AxHost wrapper class for instance. When using ActiveX controls in C#, Visual Studio will generate an AxHost wrapper class that builds...