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I’ve recently become slowly more aware that its starting to take me longer and longer to respond to people who contact me, look into resolving issues that people bring to my attention, complete tasks within deadlines that I’ve committed to, and otherwise meet my obligations to others.
As I started to think about why this might [...]
This is the last in a series of posts here and here about my design ideas for re-engineering the DX_SourceOutliner to improve its design as well as increase its flexibility and extensibility for the future.
Observed Theme 4: Analysis of Code Element Metadata
The .NET WinForms TreeNode class provides a node.Tag property of type object, the intended [...]
Developer Express has just released the ‘2009.2.5’ version of their IDE Productivity Tools, CodeRush, Refactor! Pro, CodeRushXpress, and DXCore.
Just about every time this happens, there’s a need to recompile many (but, interestingly - for reasons I cannot entirely explain – not all!) DXCore-dependent plugins to expose themselves properly within the newly-released DXCore runtime.
CR_ClassCleaner
In the past, [...]
I have just been advised that the 2009.2 release of the Developer Express IDE Productivity tools (CodeRush, Refactor! Pro, DXCore, and CodeRushXpress) has been made available for download from the DevExpress website.
This means that a) you should go update your running version of these tools ASAP if you are an adopter of any of these [...]
For those of you interested in using my DXCore Refactor_UpdateNamespace plugin (see here and here for more details) but hampered by the fact that prior releases supported only C# and not VB.NET, you will be happy to know that a new version is now available for download that corrects this limitation.
Two Properties, Same Concept, [...]
Yesterday I announced the release of v1.0 of the DXCore plugin as described in this post. Almost immediately upon its release, someone pointed out a pretty embarrassing bug that I had apparently failed to test for: the plugin only replaced the portion of the existing namespace string that fell between pairs of periods (”.”) rather [...]
I absolutely LOVE the extensibility of the DXCore Visual Studio API abstraction layer that is both available free from Developer Express as well as bundled with Developer Express’ commercial and (free) express Visual Studio productivity tools. The ease with which they have made it possible to create Visual Studio add-ins that act as integral parts [...]
Anyone who has done any appreciative work in software engineering is familiar with one of the most challenging aspects of Software Development: the realization that software engineering isn’t fundamentally really about building so much as it is about discovering. We are taught for long periods in our careers (either implicitly through the language we use [...]
After a bit of work this weekend, I am happy to announce that v1.1 of the DX_SourceOutliner Visual Studio Add-in is ready for download. You can get the latest binary release from the Google Code site here.
What’s New
Originally supposed to be just a bug-fix (which would have left it at v1.0), while working on it [...]
In this recent post I blogged a bit about some of the limitations of the otherwise very valuable Visual Studio Source Code Outliner PowerToy add-in. I also posted about my intent to hack together a supped-up replacement for the thing that leverages the capabilities of the Developer Express DXCore Visual Studio API abstraction layer to [...]
