Energy Consumption Tool in Visual Studio 2013 aims to solve a very real problem, and one that I am sure that most of us as developers don't give a second thought to. If your applications are battery hungry, this will quickly result in bad customer experience. To keep your application's energy…
Clone VirtualBox VM's - Lately I have fallen in love again with VirtualBox. I have decided that using the same installation of SYSPRO on my local dev machine to do all customisations is inefficient. As time moves along and different customisations need to be done for different clients, my SYSPRO installation…
One of the most important aspects of an application is usability. Designing your application to make the end-user's job easy is challenging and not very easy to do. Some developers call this idiot-proofing your application, but I'm sure that there are more subtle ways to put this. Many good applications…
Conflicted suo files are the bane of every developer’s existence. I have been using SVN as my code repository for years now. I must admit that I probably don’t know it as well as I should. Unfortunately I know it as well as I need to, which is a totally different thing. You see, developers are generally lazy. Why re-do work if you can do it once and re-use.
The same can be said of what we know about the tools we use. Once we are comfortable with what we know and can work with, we somehow fail to learn more. Call it knowing just enough to be functional, call it lazy, call it what you want. Somehow, I feel that we should learn more. (more…)
Visual Studio 2013 Features have certainly been in the spotlight in the past few weeks. Since the Preview has been released there have been a flurry of blog posts on some of the new shiny things that go bling in the Visual Studio 2013 features universe. Ed Blankenship brings us…
Xamarin.iOS is such a great tool, and Michael Crump shares an excellent video he made on building your first app with Xamarin.iOS. This is a must-see for all you budding iOS devs out there. Zain Naboulsi then shares some nice tips on Visual Studio 2013. If you don't have the…
F8 Safe Boot seems to have vanished from Windows 8? One of the strange quirks of Windows 8 is that the Boot into Safe mode by pressing F8 at boot time has been disabled. Microsoft justifies this by saying that modern computers boot too fast.
The response window for pressing the F8 key on a Windows 8 SSD-based UEFI system is less than 200 milliseconds. This is surely okay for modern Windows 8 devices, but for the rest of us folks out there with slower machines (or for those who prefer the F8 Safe Boot method because it is familiar to us), we want the F8 Safe Boot key back. (more…)
Visual Studio 2013 UI changes seem imminent. This obviously means that developers of Visual Studio extensions are really going to love Microsoft after the latest change. Luckily the change isn't radical at all (not that I minded the Visual Studio 2010 UI) but I do think that the Visual Studio…
Windows 8.1 with .Net Framework 3.5 - Kunal Chowdhury gives us the low down on how to make it work on a fresh install. Gunnar Peipman talks about Edit and Continue with 64-bit apps being supported in Visual Studio 2013. Lastly, New York get's it's own unique Web domain. Today…
Douglas C. Engelbart passed away on Tuesday at the age of 88 due to kidney failure. If you are not sure who he was, be sure to read the article in today's featured link. I am certain that he touched the life of every computer user alive today. It actually…