Something really awesome in Visual Studio.
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I've been hinting for quite a while now that Sacha and I have been working on some software together. Well, I've been writing a Visual Studio extension and it has some settings that we show in the Tools > Options dialog. Well, it's vital that the user enters these settings (they can't get to any further activities without setting these). If only Visual Studio allowed us to get to the property page, well thanky-dank you Microsoft for giving me something awesome:
EnvDTE.DTE dte = (EnvDTE.DTE)Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Package.GetGlobalService(typeof(SDTE));
dte.ExecuteCommand("Tools.Options", GuidList.PropertyPageGuid);And that's it - Visual Studio shows me the settings page (all you have to do is provide the property page guid).
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
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I am a --massive-- fan of the code project newsletters. The puns that the writer(s) come up with on a daily basis is a consistently high quality. I regularly read around 80% of the articles listed each day. I don't like this new policy of using a forum post as the subject line of the email. Its really misleading and most of the time links through to a post that's filled with drivel. No offence to the posters in this thread, you should freely discuss niche subjects like this in the forum. I'm not try to say the posters are responsible but as a reader of the newsletter I see this pop up in my inbox "Something really awesome in Visual Studio", click through to this page and its not something awesome. It doesn't make any sense to the programmers that are not working on VS addons. Its nothing I can use. I guess its something to do with trying to drum up more users in the forums but for me its just been a waste of time most of the time I click through to these posts. I can only assume this is being automatically injected based on the post popularity because I don't see why you would include this in the newsletter. Hope I don't come off as offensive, I'm just baffled as to why this has started cropping up in my favourite newsletter :)
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I am a --massive-- fan of the code project newsletters. The puns that the writer(s) come up with on a daily basis is a consistently high quality. I regularly read around 80% of the articles listed each day. I don't like this new policy of using a forum post as the subject line of the email. Its really misleading and most of the time links through to a post that's filled with drivel. No offence to the posters in this thread, you should freely discuss niche subjects like this in the forum. I'm not try to say the posters are responsible but as a reader of the newsletter I see this pop up in my inbox "Something really awesome in Visual Studio", click through to this page and its not something awesome. It doesn't make any sense to the programmers that are not working on VS addons. Its nothing I can use. I guess its something to do with trying to drum up more users in the forums but for me its just been a waste of time most of the time I click through to these posts. I can only assume this is being automatically injected based on the post popularity because I don't see why you would include this in the newsletter. Hope I don't come off as offensive, I'm just baffled as to why this has started cropping up in my favourite newsletter :)
As the author of said post, I should be offended, but I'm not. I wouldn't have chosen this post for the newsletter either, and I was surprised to see it there. I would disagree with you that this feature isn't awesome though. It really is. But no hard feelings on my part, so don't worry about it.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility
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I am a --massive-- fan of the code project newsletters. The puns that the writer(s) come up with on a daily basis is a consistently high quality. I regularly read around 80% of the articles listed each day. I don't like this new policy of using a forum post as the subject line of the email. Its really misleading and most of the time links through to a post that's filled with drivel. No offence to the posters in this thread, you should freely discuss niche subjects like this in the forum. I'm not try to say the posters are responsible but as a reader of the newsletter I see this pop up in my inbox "Something really awesome in Visual Studio", click through to this page and its not something awesome. It doesn't make any sense to the programmers that are not working on VS addons. Its nothing I can use. I guess its something to do with trying to drum up more users in the forums but for me its just been a waste of time most of the time I click through to these posts. I can only assume this is being automatically injected based on the post popularity because I don't see why you would include this in the newsletter. Hope I don't come off as offensive, I'm just baffled as to why this has started cropping up in my favourite newsletter :)
I agree. It was a interesting post to read but when I clicked on the newsletter email I was expecting an article, not a post. Seems like the subject of the email if for posts more and more here lately.
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I remember back in the dark days of Visual Studio add-ins. WholeTomato Software made a very successful business by being one of the very few companies breave enough to battle VS. And then Microsoft realised extensibility was a good thing and all stops were pulled. Wait until you see the next version...
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Ah yes, Whole Tomato, from the great school of frivolous software company names pioneered by the classic editor Brief from Underware.
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That'll be a problem with me too!
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As the author of said post, I should be offended, but I'm not. I wouldn't have chosen this post for the newsletter either, and I was surprised to see it there. I would disagree with you that this feature isn't awesome though. It really is. But no hard feelings on my part, so don't worry about it.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility
Well said. I for one found the feature of interest, but then one of my pet projects is writing a language, so extensibility is a concern of interest (although I'm miles away from worrying about it now, and the post will be buried by the time if its of use). Nonetheless, I do agree with the point that forum posts don't make good newsletter material - although I do enjoy perusing both. If they must remain there, I'd suggest putting them in a clearly identifiable section, something like "From the Forums".
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I've been hinting for quite a while now that Sacha and I have been working on some software together. Well, I've been writing a Visual Studio extension and it has some settings that we show in the Tools > Options dialog. Well, it's vital that the user enters these settings (they can't get to any further activities without setting these). If only Visual Studio allowed us to get to the property page, well thanky-dank you Microsoft for giving me something awesome:
EnvDTE.DTE dte = (EnvDTE.DTE)Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Package.GetGlobalService(typeof(SDTE));
dte.ExecuteCommand("Tools.Options", GuidList.PropertyPageGuid);And that's it - Visual Studio shows me the settings page (all you have to do is provide the property page guid).
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility
So, is this going to be an extension that requires a paid license or do you have another model in mind? By the way, please be very careful with this piece of software, I avoid extensions to the maximum so it won't hurt stability.
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i think they have a team for that - anyone know what its called? Bryce
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So, is this going to be an extension that requires a paid license or do you have another model in mind? By the way, please be very careful with this piece of software, I avoid extensions to the maximum so it won't hurt stability.
"To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems" - Homer Simpson
Currently it's open source. The settings are needed for authentication purposes, purely for part of the functionality. I don't want to give too much away because it's very much Sacha's brainchild and I am onboard to provide the Visual Studio experience.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility
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Currently it's open source. The settings are needed for authentication purposes, purely for part of the functionality. I don't want to give too much away because it's very much Sacha's brainchild and I am onboard to provide the Visual Studio experience.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility
Great! I just wanted to know if I would be able to get my hands on this little baby when it's ready. Coming from you and Sacha, it's gotta be good, and being open source, it's even better; great opportunity to learn.
"To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems" - Homer Simpson
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I've been hinting for quite a while now that Sacha and I have been working on some software together. Well, I've been writing a Visual Studio extension and it has some settings that we show in the Tools > Options dialog. Well, it's vital that the user enters these settings (they can't get to any further activities without setting these). If only Visual Studio allowed us to get to the property page, well thanky-dank you Microsoft for giving me something awesome:
EnvDTE.DTE dte = (EnvDTE.DTE)Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Package.GetGlobalService(typeof(SDTE));
dte.ExecuteCommand("Tools.Options", GuidList.PropertyPageGuid);And that's it - Visual Studio shows me the settings page (all you have to do is provide the property page guid).
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility
There's a few tricks like that you can pull. My favourite is starting an instance of the IDE remotely and pressing buttons on it from a distance. Right freaks people out, that one does - but it's useful to know about for integration tests. :-\
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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There's a few tricks like that you can pull. My favourite is starting an instance of the IDE remotely and pressing buttons on it from a distance. Right freaks people out, that one does - but it's useful to know about for integration tests. :-\
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
Not that you would ever do this with evil intent. ;)
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility
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Real coders around the world just grunted, spat and/or adjusted their crotches. Back in the days when Men were Real Men, Developers were Real Developers, and Visual Studio Had Help That Was Actually Useful. Where's that bottle of red...
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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I am a --massive-- fan of the code project newsletters. The puns that the writer(s) come up with on a daily basis is a consistently high quality. I regularly read around 80% of the articles listed each day. I don't like this new policy of using a forum post as the subject line of the email. Its really misleading and most of the time links through to a post that's filled with drivel. No offence to the posters in this thread, you should freely discuss niche subjects like this in the forum. I'm not try to say the posters are responsible but as a reader of the newsletter I see this pop up in my inbox "Something really awesome in Visual Studio", click through to this page and its not something awesome. It doesn't make any sense to the programmers that are not working on VS addons. Its nothing I can use. I guess its something to do with trying to drum up more users in the forums but for me its just been a waste of time most of the time I click through to these posts. I can only assume this is being automatically injected based on the post popularity because I don't see why you would include this in the newsletter. Hope I don't come off as offensive, I'm just baffled as to why this has started cropping up in my favourite newsletter :)
rtpHarry wrote:
I don't like this new policy of using a forum post as the subject line of the email.
Hear hear. (Or is that "Here, here"?) I too, would like the subject line to pick the best (in their opinion) article, instead of "best" message. (Some picked have REALLY been drivel.) I like the messages being included in the newsletter, just don't make them the subject line unless it is exceptional.
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Not that you would ever do this with evil intent. ;)
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility
Nah...evil is when you connect to a co-workers machine and execute the "Rebuild All" command on a large C++ solution while they're not looking. "Why's it building again? Damn...I'll have to wait another 45 minutes before I can do anything else now".
Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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I've been hinting for quite a while now that Sacha and I have been working on some software together. Well, I've been writing a Visual Studio extension and it has some settings that we show in the Tools > Options dialog. Well, it's vital that the user enters these settings (they can't get to any further activities without setting these). If only Visual Studio allowed us to get to the property page, well thanky-dank you Microsoft for giving me something awesome:
EnvDTE.DTE dte = (EnvDTE.DTE)Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Package.GetGlobalService(typeof(SDTE));
dte.ExecuteCommand("Tools.Options", GuidList.PropertyPageGuid);And that's it - Visual Studio shows me the settings page (all you have to do is provide the property page guid).
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier - my favourite utility
The most awesome feature is: File -> Exit.
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Well said. I for one found the feature of interest, but then one of my pet projects is writing a language, so extensibility is a concern of interest (although I'm miles away from worrying about it now, and the post will be buried by the time if its of use). Nonetheless, I do agree with the point that forum posts don't make good newsletter material - although I do enjoy perusing both. If they must remain there, I'd suggest putting them in a clearly identifiable section, something like "From the Forums".
The subject is not directly "of interest" to me. But one of the really good things about the Forum / Lounge and the articles linked in the CP Newsletters is that you end up reading about things that are not directly "of interest". Instead, ones breadth of knowledge about what is current and topical is expanded. Whilst it is highly improbable that I'll ever write an extension for Visual Studio (not allowed to download things, e.g. VS, or install products that have not been rigorously tested by our s/w assurance, let alone to develop for them)knowing albeit in a very limited way about what is possible and what people are doing is always beneficial. It is also good to read 'product X is good because ...' rather than 'product X is a **** ** **** because ...' articles. After all, the designers of product X are our fellow developers and when they have done something worthwhile, it is good to praise them Most of us would feel better if, just occassionally, someone gave us a complement for the 99% of good work that we do instead of just criticising the 1% of not so good work that we do.