Visual Studio Links #73

The lack of posts over the past week was due to the hurricane (Ike) damage and my subsequent lack of internet service (as well as power, water, gasoline, and many other important things).  That stuff is back for me now, but the last report I saw stated that almost 1 million customers were still without power.  I’m hoping things will get fixed quickly so the area can begin recovery.  So here are the links for the past week.  I’m hoping this next week will be more normal.

Greg Duncan:

• SlickEdit Tools 2.0.3 Released (aka the SVN goodness release)
• Backlight – The Silverlight UX code sharing project
• (TFS) Build Tweeter – Now your Team Foundation Server/TeamBuild can tweet too

Rick Strahl posted a description of an ASP.NET Designer Control Problem in VS 2008 SP1.

Steve Hawley posted Some Managed/Unmanaged Exception Tricks.

Miguel de Icaza:

• Interactive C# Shell
• C# Eval:  An Embeddable Compiler

Sara Ford:

• You can press Alt+Num* to Show Next Statement
• You can press F10 to Step Over a function
• You can press F11 to Step into a function
• You can press Shift+F11 to step out of a function
• You can break the debugger without using Breakpoints
• How to create an Object ID to keep track of your objects
• How to get the Find Source dialog back instead of the “There is no source code available” message
• What’s the difference between the Autos window and the Locals window

Web Developer Tools Team:

• What to do when VWD crashes or hangs on you
• Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 6

Tess:

• ASP.NET Memory – Identifying pages with high Viewstate
• Quick Debugging Tip:  Disable apppool recycling while getting crash dumps
• Making it easier to debug .net dumps in windbg using .cmdtree

VS2008 KB: 

• MS08-052: Vulnerabilities in GDI+ could allow remote code execution
• Hotfix available for A floating-point exception occurs when an application contains an uninitialized floating-point variable and is compiled with the /fp:expect option in Visual Studio 2008.
• MS08-052: Description of the security update for GDI+ for Visual Studio 2008: September 9, 2008

James Lau posted Localized VS Shell (w/ SP1) Download Links on the VS Ecosystem blog.

Aaron Marten posted a link to the coding fix for a Bad Painting Behavior in Split Window / New Window for a VS Language Service.

Quan To posted a link that explains how to get progress back from the integrated or isolated shell installer at setup time (VS2008 SP1).

Carlos Quintero:

• Using the Process Monitor (ProcMon) tool to diagnose Visual Studio add-ins problems
• BUG: Standard user unable to load/unload COM-based add-ins registered for all users with the VS 2008 Add-in Manager on Windows Vista

Dave Garder continues his debugging tip of the week series with The DebuggerStepThrough Attribute.  Dave also explains how you can Win a free copy of Professional Visual Studio 2008.