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A question I recently ran into asked about comparing message sizes when using the default Text Message Encoder used by most bindings in WCF with the Binary Message Encoder used by the TcpBinding, without going through the entire WCF stack and having to use a protocol analyzer. Here’s a sample...

I’ve created another simple extension for Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 that will highlight the current line the caret is in with a different background color. Here’s a screenshot of the extension in action: <img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="vs10_clh_1" border="0" alt="vs10_clh_1" src="http://winterdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/vs10_clh_1_thumb.png" width="640"...

I’ve been extending my Flow Control Classifier sample extension for Visual Studio 2010, and based on the new features, I decided to rename it to KeywordClassifier instead. I’ve renamed the GitHub repository as well, so make sure you’re heading to the new one. I will continue playing with this, but...

I’ve been doing my first experiments with extending Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 using the recently released SDK. It’s been lots of fun, but it can also be frustrating at times because the new extensibility model is huge and you don’t always know where to get started. My first sample...

One interesting new feature I noticed in the Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 debugger: You can now turn watch expressions into little detached “post-it”-like notes that float around your debugger window. I’m calling them Watch Notes for now, since I have no clue what the feature is actually called. <img...

In general terms, I’m liking the Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 experience quite a bit; there are lots of goodies in there. The Text Editor shows a lot of promise, though it’s still a bit on the buggy side :). I’ve noticed something that’s nagging me a bit, and that’s...

The May 2009 CTP drop of the Microsoft Oslo SDK was released today. I was just installing it to check out what’s new, and thought it was a bit funny how Oslo’s minimalistic UI design extends all the way to the CTP installation program: <img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display:...

I take advantage of both VirtualBox and VirtualPC as core parts of my development environment. I keep several sets of Virtual Machines around on both platforms that I use for core development (writing code) and testing on different platforms. Because of this, I’m constantly switching between the two, depending on...

I’ve been testing a few of the new features in Workflow Foundation 4.0 and getting to know the completely revamped Workflow Designer in Visual Studio 2010 beta 1. In a broad sense, I think it’s an improvement over the old designer in VS2005/8, but in the end I’m still far...

<img style="border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="vs10_wf_ps" border="0" alt="vs10_wf_ps" align="left" src="http://winterdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/vs10-wf-ps.png" width="234" height="117" /> I’ve been fooling a bit with the new Windows PowerShell-related activities included in Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 alongside the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 release. It’s...