June 23, 2007

New camera new pictures new life

Seems like my wife has found the hobby of her life. She's all about photography now. Books, sites, forums. She's overgrown our little but powerful Canon S70 and got new shiny (not really shiny, but a black one) Canon 400D (aka XTi). S70 is finally mine again! Here are some her ...

June 18, 2007

Vibrant Ink Theme for Visual Studio

John Lam ported Textmate's Vibrant Ink theme to Visual Studio. Get it here. Awesome. Note that toolbar buttons are nowhere to be seen. I noticed that while I'm only barely use toolbar, it still takes lots of space and more irritating - distracts attention like xmas tree and tends to rearrange itself I have no ...

June 13, 2007

Visual Studio as platform - expensive (no more) and obscure

Victor Garcia Aprea, the guy behind VSSDK Assist writes about his experience and vision of extending Visual Studio. My Love / Hate relationship with Visual Studio: Visual Studio is a tool I love to use. Visual Studio is a tool I hate to extend. Enough said. Ditto. In another post, Dreaming ...

June 7, 2007

Next Visual Studio XML Tools

Microsoft XML Team posted a series of screencasts unveiling some new features in Visual Studio Orcas 2008. Short ones, but to the point, without blablahblah. I particularly like XML Editor ability to generate stub XML document from XML schema in just one tab click. Oh, and XSLT debugging is getting ...

June 6, 2007

Visual Studio Shell announced - answer to Eclipse Platform?

Craig Skibo of Microsoft writes about new thing they announced recently - Visual Studio Shell. What the hell is that? Marketing description is unreadable: A streamlined Visual Studio development environment, the Visual Studio Shell provides the core foundation so you can focus on building your application’s unique features. But ...