Mark Miller demonstrates writing plugins for DXCore live in the latest episode of dnrTV. He sounds a bit hurried, but if you want to get into DXCore programming, this is definitely a Must View. And if you’re not yet convinced you want to get… more »

A question I heard this morning made me remember this, and I thought it might be one of those improvements that many haven’t noticed yet. In VS 2005, the “Go to Definition” functionality has been improved an awful lot, in that VS creat… more »

int GetCount(IEnumerable enumerable) { int count = 0; foreach (object o in enumerable) count++; return count; } It's that simple, right? Well, no, it isn’t. What you have to realize is that in contrast to ICollection, IList or IBindingL… more »

As I mentioned elsewhere, I'm working on a DXCore plugin to enable (Tablet PC) ink drawing on the Visual Studio editor surface. A problem I stumbled upon in this regard was the scrolling functionality. Generally this is really easy to implement, using a… more »

When installing add-ins for Visual Studio, a number of different paths can be used. One of them is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\Addins - in a default installation of a US English Windows. Obviously a proper… more »