Extending Visual Studio properties
We’ve been doing a bit of work with Visual Studio Extensibility recently through the LightSpeed designer and the VS File Explorer add-in, so I thought I’d start jotting down some of the stuff we’ve...
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What’s coming in 2009 from Mindscape?
Happy new year everybody, I hope you’ve all had a fantastic break and recharge over the last couple of weeks. We have returned energized and ready to bring a slew of new products and enhancements to...
View ArticleSimpleDB Managment Tools screencast
With SimpleDB Management Tools newly released we decided it would be helpful to those who are interested in it to see it in action. I have created a short 3 minute screencast providing an overview of...
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Buy Visual Studio and MSDN online in New Zealand
Great news for folks living in New Zealand – today we launched the New Zealand Visual Studio Store at www.getvs.net.nz. Now New Zealand developers and companies can purchase Visual Studio licenses and...
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Web Workbench 2.0 – Faster, Minification and Pro
We’ve been blown away by the interest in the Mindscape Web Workbench. It seems .NET web developers were hungry for Sass, Less and CoffeeScript inside Visual Studio as we’ve now passed 14,000 installs!...
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NHibernate Designer 2 is here!
I’m very pleased to announce the immediate availability of the NHibernate Designer 2.0! This release represents a big set of improvements for existing users and a great experience for new users. Key...
View ArticleIn bed with Roslyn
Microsoft have been talking about their “C# compiler as a service” project, aka Roslyn, for a couple of years now, and yesterday the C# team finally released a preview version. Being a bit of a...
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Reflection, performance and runtime code generation
If you’re developing a library or a utility module, you’ll often you need to make it work with different types — including types that you don’t know about at build time. In many cases, you can handle...
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Last week I discussed how you could use runtime code generation to create fast methods to replace slow reflection code, even when you didn’t have the target types to compile against. But runtime code...
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Visual Studio 2013 support
I’m pleased to let you know that all Mindscape products have full support for Visual Studio 2013! If you have have an active subscription you can download the latest nightly builds to get this new...
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