When being lazy is (finally) good 28 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010, .NET Development In this blog post I want to talk about .NET 4 new Lazy<T> class. First of all, why would you need something called Lazy? You can use it for data access for example; when you load a row from a database parent table. Would you need to load the child rows automatically, or delay until they’re re... [More]
IntelliSense improvements in Visual Studio 2010 24 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010 What developer today can live without intelli-sense? Of course I mean developers who have used intelli-sense before (if you don’t know something how can you miss something?). However finding a member in Visual Studio 2008 requires you to know the first letters of the class/method/… I’m quite sure yo... [More]
Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is available via MSDN sub download 08 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot Download VS2010 RC here. And soon available for everyone tomorrow!
Gated Check In with Multiple Build Definitions 05 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot Team System, VS2010, .NET Development As promised in my previous blog on Gated Check In, in this blog I’ll discuss using multiple builds with gated check in. So what happens when you check in (using gated check in) and there are multiple build definitions targeting the solution? Well, Gated Check In will then allow you to choose betwee... [More]
Never break a build again with the new Gated Check-in feature from Visual Studio Team System 2010 04 February 2010 Peter-Himschoot Breaking the current team build is not a good thing. This will cause many people to lose time while the build is being fixed. So how can you avoid this? One way is by only checking-in on isolated branches, which allow you first to test if everyone’s changes build together. But, remember that Team ... [More]