Today we revamped some of the Visual Basic Developer Center Learn pages with more content that allows you to pivot on more fine-grained topics and tasks related to Visual Basic programming. We’ve started with the Introductory Topics and Language Syntax pages. To get there, head to http://msdn.com/vbasic and then click the Learn tab .
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New Learning Resources on the Visual Basic Developer Center (Beth Massi)
New version of CodeIt.Right Enterprise Edition – build 1.9.09355 – is available for download now. This version introduces new feature Merge Profiles that allows to compare and merge user configured profiles, enhances VSTS integration with the new “Add WorkItem” feature, adds command line version parameters and ability to load/unload CodeIt.Right in the menu and Add-In Manager. This update is free for all users who are current on their Software Assurance and Gold Support Subscription New in CodeIt.Right Enterprise v1.9: New Merge Profiles feature allows to compare and merge user configured profiles New “Add WorkItem” feature – create TFS WorkItem from a violation Added /metrics parameter to the command line utility to generate XML output for three metrics reports – “Member”, “Type” and “Code” Added /sendto parameter to the command line utility – send the violation/metrics output via email CodeIt.Right can now be loaded/unloaded in the menu and Add-In Manager Build server setup doesn’t require Visual Studio on the build machine anymore “Built-in profile” option now is not selectable in the Analysis Module when one or more custom profiles deployed via Team Configuration Module New Rules : Specify CultureInfo ( Globalization ) Specify IFormatProvider ( Globalization ) Specify StringComparison ( Globalization ) Avoid excessive complexity ( Maintainability ) Avoid excessive inheritance ( Maintainability ) Do not use deprecated properties of Response object ( AspNet ) Fixed a number of bugs in the application and the rules..
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Released: CodeIt.Right Enterprise v1.9.09355
Today we are releasing new version of CodeIt.Right – build 1.8.09300. This version features complete ASP.NET support, it is compatible with VS2010 Beta 2 (in addition to VS2008, VS2005, VS2003), Add Rule dialog improvements – “Hide Rules in the Profile” and “Quick Search”, 10+ new rules including new category “CodingStyle”.
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Released: CodeIt.Right version 1.8.09300 – now compatible with VS2010 Beta 2!
While helping some Windows API folks with some sample code this week, I stumbled upon…uh…I mean “carefully researched” an issue that you might find handy. You may be aware that the RaiseEvent statement automatically checks to verify if an event handler exists before raising the event. If the event is Nothing , then there’s no event handler and RaiseEvent terminates.
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Testing Events for Nothing/Null (Doug Rothaus)
The AJAX Control Toolkit is an incredibly popular set of controls that enable you to easily add JavaScript functionality to an ASP.NET application. The AJAX Control Toolkit has consistently been one of the top three most popular downloads from CodePlex since the birth of CodePlex (see http://www.CodePlex.com ).
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Improving the AJAX Control Toolkit with the Lightweight Test Automation Framework (LTAF)
In the second part of my interview with Doug Rothaus, he describes the new implicit line continuation feature in Visual Basic 2010. Learn about the most common scenarios that no longer require the underscore character (_) in the topic, Statements in Visual Basic . See the Video: implicit Line Continuation –Kathleen McGrath http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen
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Implicit Line Continuation (Kathleen McGrath)
To learn more about Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4, Kathleen McGrath is highlighting new documentation about these products with a weekly blog post and a daily tweet. If you want to learn more about the new features and scenarios, check out her blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen and her twitter feed at http://twitter.com/kathleenmcgrath . Mary Lee, Programming Writer.
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Learning about Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 (Mary Lee)
With just a couple of days left this year, I wanted to share with you a great article in the MSDN Magazine Toolbox column this month on Improving Software Quality with Static Code Analysis Tools where MS MVP Scott Mitchell is reviewing Static Analysis Tools For .NET . Scott is comparing FxCop, StyleCop and CodeIt.Right: While FxCop and StyleCop pinpoint rule violations, the developer is still responsible for implementing these tools’ suggestions. CodeIt.Right from SubMain takes static code analysis to the next level by enabling rule violations to be automatically refactored into conforming code .
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CodeIt.Right reviewed on MSDN Toolbox
by Serge Baranovsky The best and the biggest MS developer conference Microsoft PDC 2008 edition is just few days away. We, of course, wouldn’t miss the great opportunity to meet and network with potentially 10000 developers. This year we will be giving away free CodeIt.Right licenses for those who manage to spot me in the crowd and talk to me about your favorite CodeIt.Right feature, what you don’t like about the product or help to prioritize the upcoming features
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PDC 2008 CodeIt.Right License giveaway!