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Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:19 AM

Code Contracts for Visual Studio Pro

If you decided long ago that you weren’t going to bother trying Code Contracts because you didn’t have Visual Studio Premium edition or higher and thus couldn’t take advantage of static checking, then your wait is finally over. Code Contracts 1.4.41228.0
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Saturday, November 12, 2011 1:51 PM

Resources for Learning Rx

Start by bookmarking the Rx hub on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/gg577609 Especially the beginners guide and the .NET Resources and Community pages, which together provide several links to official videos, blog posts and articles, all of
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:01 AM

Rxx 1.2 Released

If you’re not familiar with the Rxx project yet, it's something I’ve been working on for several months now along with James Miles . Rxx is a library of unofficial reactive LINQ extensions supplementary to Microsoft's Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx).
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Sunday, September 13, 2009 2:19 PM

Sandcastle with Code Contracts

Microsoft Dev Labs has released a new version of Code Contracts . (For more information about Code Contracts in the .NET Framework 4.0, see System.Diagnostics.Contracts and this article ). If you haven't yet, I highly recommend installing the latest Code
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:52 AM

MAML Editor: Progress II

In a previous blog post I discussed my work on a WYSIWYG editor for authoring MAML topics, either inside or outside of DocProject . This post is simply another quick update on my progress. Preview Release Timeline A few weeks ago I started a new job and
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:11 AM

DocProject 2008: Custom Visual Studio Project System

For the last couple of weeks I've been testing a new VS package for DocProject 2008. You can read more about my plans here . More recently I've been working on a new project system that integrates into Visual Studio 2008 but the current implementation
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Monday, June 16, 2008 12:25 AM

DocProject 1.11.0 RC - Second Update

Another update was just released for DocProject 1.11.0 RC . This update replaces the existing installer on the Releases page that was deployed for the first update . For anyone that had previously downloaded DocProject 1.11.0 RC or the first update, you
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Friday, June 13, 2008 8:57 PM

DocProject 1.11.0 RC Updated

An update was just released for DocProject 1.11.0 RC . It replaces the existing installer on the Releases page. For anyone that had previously downloaded DocProject 1.11.0 RC you can download it again if you've experienced any of the following bugs. Note:
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Sunday, June 08, 2008 11:02 PM

DocProject 1.11.0 RC Is Now Available

DocProject 1.11.0 Release Candidate is now available on CodePlex. It supports the Sandcastle May 2008 Release and contains many bug fixes and new features, most of which are listed below. Full support for both Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008
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Friday, June 06, 2008 11:13 AM

Visual Studio Gallery Updated

It appears that Microsoft has improved the Visual Studio Gallery by adding the ability for users to rate and review products. The interface was jazzed up a bit as well. Nice work MS - the original gallery was more like a project dump but the new release
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:47 PM

Sandcastle Styles Project on CodePlex

The Sandcastle Styles project is now live on CodePlex. From the project's home page: The goal of this project is to improve Sandcastle by providing a rolled-up solution to various presentation style issues in a manner that is highly visible to the Sandcastle
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:35 AM

MAML Editor: Progress

This blog post is just an update on my progress creating a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) MAML editor . I've received a lot of feedback (relative) for the MAML editor and I know that people are waiting for one, so I'd like to share with you some
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Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:53 AM

MAML Migration: The Next Step in the Evolution of Help Authoring

Are you part of that herd of developers that is used to documenting applications by writing help topics in raw HTML? The power of it is nice, being able to add a pinch of bold here, a splash of italics there, some CSS for different layouts, a floating
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Saturday, May 03, 2008 2:36 PM

DocProject Roadmap Part II

In my first DocProject Roadmap post I described my preliminary plans for DocProject 1.x and later versions. In this post I'm going to discuss the project's current status and some updates to my plans for future versions. 1.11.0 RC DocProject 1.11.0 RC
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Friday, April 25, 2008 9:12 AM

Sandcastle: Auto-Generated Bibliography

June 11, 2008 Update: This feature is now available as part of the Sandcastle Styles patch and DocProject 1.11.0 RC . Wouldn't it be cool if you could cite books and web sites while authoring MAML and XML documentation comments and have Sandcastle create
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