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Ray Ozzie gave the PDC08 opening keynote, focusing (today) on the future backend platform from Microsoft, with tomorrow's keynote focusing on front end (client) applications and services such as Windows Live. Ozzie began the keynote by replying to the criticism regarding his cloud computing vision, agreeing it's not a new concept, but that now it's more relevant than ever before. According to Ozzie The web is critical to a bussiness today in various issues. Turns out that for the past...
One of the new and very annoying feature of Visual Studio 2008 is the WCF service host : Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Service Host (WcfSvcHost.exe) allows you to launch the Visual Studio debugger (F5) to automatically host and test a service you have implemented. The tool is integrated into Visual Studio through the WCF Service template and is invoked when you start to debug your project. Sounds like a useful tool, right? Well, if you don't need this functionality, especially if you...
Browsing through code is always a lot easier using regions, and I keep grouping methods/fields/properties in my code in regions. Now it seems I found the perfect tool for me: Regionerate lets you define regions in your code and determine the way members...
As it turns out, there is a file called ExpansionsXML.xml in your "local settings" folder, which gets written by VS a lot, thus slowing down the application - marking it as "read only" solves the problem. (Thanks to Kim's post) Read More...