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Microsoft Events Come Back to Fort Collins

It’s been a while since Microsoft MSDN and TechNet events have been in Fort Collins. I’m very pleased to be able to pass on Microsoft’s announcement that on April 21st, these events will be held at the Drake Center as half-day events. A huge “thank you” to Erin Dolan, Joe Shirey and Daniel Egan for making this happen! Join us for an in-person event you won’t want to miss! No matter what your role, you’ll find an event series that fits what you do—and what the 2010 products from Microsoft have to ...
Posted On Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:05 AM | Comments (0)

Regular Expressions in Visual Studio “Find”

I had a case today where I wanted to find all the spots within our application that a developer had explicitly set the BackColor property of a control at run-time. As you can imagine, a simple search ended up with my finding a ton of designer code where the generated code was setting the property. (It sure would be nice if Visual Studio would let you exclude comments and designer files from the search – but that’s not in VS2008 or VS2010 Beta 1, unless it’s well hidden in both.) Wildcards seems like ...
Posted On Thursday, September 24, 2009 10:35 AM | Comments (1)

Rosario rocks (Architecture edition)

For those of you (like me!) that were unaware of it, Microsoft has released a CTP of Rosario (the next version of Visual Studio). Jeff Beehler (lead program manager on VSTS) blogged about this release a while ago. I attended the Rosario Architecture Edition preview yesterday. Frankly, I'm two orders of magnitude more excited about this than I am about anything else I've seen here at the summit yet. This past week, I came across an interesting piece of irony. I just left a job as a "software developer" ...
Posted On Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:34 PM | Comments (0)