Correcting Grammar for Microsoft Products and Technology
Apr 27, 2010
I see book authors, editors, bloggers, press, team members, and occasionally even a VP misspell our products, technologies, and features that I thought I would build and maintain a list of the correct capitalization and spelling of the most commonly misspelled Microsoft products and technologies. Sources: Internal site (brandtools) and the Microsoft Trademarks Web site. Last updated: April 27, 2010 Incorrect **Correct ** .net or .Net .NET .…more
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Cheat Sheet
May 20, 2009
Hey folks, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available for the world to download and here’s your cheat sheet of links you’ll want to know about **Download: **Visual Studio Team System Beta 1, Web installer, VSTS Beta 1 ISO, .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 Readme: VSTS Readme **Installation Tips & Tricks: **Be sure to watch Brian Keller’s 10-4 episode on how to download & install VSTS Beta 1 ** **…more
Settings1.Designer.cs Bug: Multiple settings files
Apr 27, 2008
I ran into this bug today which was unfortunately closed as can’t repro. I was renaming some AppSettings variable names (right click on a Project’s Properties and go to the Settings tabs) and deleting some other settings, when I did a Search/Replace for the entire solution and somehow wound up with a duplicate Settings.Designer.cs file named Settings1.Designer.cs. This was effectively a clone of Settings.Designer.cs which meant: IntelliSense would report that any AppSettings variables were declared multiple times * The project wouldn’t compile because the variables were already declared The fix was to…more