Month: March 2006

Dustin Campbell from DevExpress came out and presented at our user group last night.  He did an excellent job, especially on such short notice (we were in a bind for a speaker this month!). The topic was gaining productivity for CodeRush and Refactor.  These are two tools that every developer should consider- definitely worth the price!   CodeRush basically allows you to write code faster- use a simple syntax to create stub methods, properties. Even better is the navigation. I’ve always wanted to be able to easily bookmark code and jump back and forth, and that is really easy to do … Continue reading Community Update…

Downloaded the latest Vista build and wanted to get up and running this weekend. It took me about 1 hr 45 minutes to install on a Celeron 2.4, 768 MB ram. The setup was relatively flawless once I determined that I needed to clear off at least 12 GB of space. I only had about 9 GB free- lots of junk in the recycle bin. I didn’t format the drive prior to installing- just installed right over XP. First impressions… – Really great build. – IE seems to render great. Lots of cool new features. – I was surprised how … Continue reading Vista 5342 First Impressions

Upcoming Presentation Information (3/28/06) Dustin Campbell is going to be presenting at the Northwest Ohio .NET User Group (http://www.nwnug.com) Tuesday, March 28th. The topic is Refactor and CodeRush. We’re going to get a demo on those tools (created by Developer Express- Dustin being one of the developers). I’m looking forward to this presentation. I’ve heard a lot about the tools but haven’t really used them too much. We’re also going to be giving away a MSDN Premium Subscription (including VS.NET 2005 Team Suite) if we have more than 25 people. So come ‘on out and help us have a great … Continue reading Upcoming .NET Meetings

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