Carlos Quintero's blog

I mentioned in my last post that the MSDN documentation for Visual Studio uses a mechanism in the URL to reference several versions of Visual Studio. I noticed that the Community Content at the bottom of each documentation page doesn’t propagate from one documentation version to the next one, with good criteria I guess because […]

MSDN has a nice URL mechanism to reference several Visual Studio versions of the same documentation, for example: Automation and Extensibility for Visual Studio (Visual Studio 2010) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xc52cke4(en-US,VS.100).aspx Automation and Extensibility for Visual Studio (Visual Studio 2008) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xc52cke4(en-US,VS.90).aspx Automation and Extensibility for Visual Studio (Visual Studio 2005) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xc52cke4(en-US,VS.80).aspx Long overdue, but today I have updated […]

I had three bug reports from customers of my MZ-Tools add-in for Visual Studio 2010 with a “System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.” that happened “when closing Visual Studio”. The stack trace is something like this: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor.Implementation.DefaultScrollMap.TranslatePosition(SnapshotPoint bufferPosition) […]

Today finally I decided to uninstall SP1 of Visual Studio 2010. A sad decision, because I like to have the latest service packs and hotfixes, but my definition of service pack is something that fixes bugs, not introducing new ones, and SP1 introduces these two issues (a bug and a “by design” change actually) that […]