Blog'A'Little : Visual Studio 2008, .net

.net 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is out

Einar Ingebrigtsen — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:54:34 GMT

Finally, the service packs we´ve all been waiting for.

.net 3.5 SP1 can be found here and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 can be found here.

Good work guys. Can´t wait to install these.

"Disable" XAML designer in Visual Studio 2008

Einar Ingebrigtsen — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:58:45 GMT

One of the things I've been finding annoying is the time the designer takes to load for an XAML file when opening it.
Pressing escape stops it from doing all it's preparation for the designer and then maximizing it to XAML view helps, but that has to be done for every single file.

It is possible to set this behavior as default for the XAML designer. In Tools->Text Editor->XAML->Miscellaneous you'll find an option called "Always open documents in full XAML view":

VS2008 QFE Debugging on a WCF application

Einar Ingebrigtsen — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:02:00 GMT

I got all excited today and downloaded and instaled VS2008 QFE (.net source code) and enabled debugging according to Shawn Burke's blog and fired up a WCF server application I'm working on. The server is using the ServerHost class for hosting it. Much to my surprise I kept getting an ConfigurationErrorsException with the message : "This element is not currently associated with any context". The application hadn't changed for a couple of days and I have no configuration file as I define everything programmatically. The only thing I had done was to install QFE and enable Debugging.

Turns out that the "Enable just my code" option that I turned off to enable QFE debugging caused this. I haven't really bothered to figure out why yet, just thought I'd blog the incident straight away.