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I have about a week to choose a topic for my dissertation.  (6 months long project leading to a BA degree)If you have a cool idea for a project please drop me a line in the comments.  My primary areas of interest are 3D graphics and anything in .NET (especially lower level things that involve IL code).Go ahead... brainstorm! :-)Thanks, David 

SD2-1234 , titled "Create common way to handle in-memory representations of files that have multiple views" is the issue tracker entry behind a major refactoring of the IViewContent interface. The major new feature introduced is that now it is ... [More] possible to open a file in multiple view contents at the same file (using " Open with "). Both IViewContent instances will edit the same underlying file - when you switch between them, one view content will display the unsaved changes of the other; pressing...(read more) [Less]

Visual Studio 2008 uses MSBuild 3.5 which supports multi-targeting: you can use it to compile applications for .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5. But what happens if you open an MSBuild 2.0 project (Visual Studio 2005 or SharpDevelop 2.x project) in ... [More] Visual Studio 2008? Answer: The “Visual Studio Conversion Wizard” will pop up and “convert” the project to MSBuild 3.5. Though it does generate a fancy upgrade report that looks like source files have been converted, all it does for a normal Windows Application...(read more) [Less]

From .NET 1.x times, you might remember .manifest files as the way to enable XP visual styles support in your application. Application manifests are important in Vista. If your application does not have a manifest, Vista will treat it as legacy ... [More] application and enable file and registry virtualization. This allows the program to write to its own application directory even if it does not have write access to it - the writes are stored in some hidden folder in the user profile. This redirection can cause...(read more) [Less]

Yesterday I wrote about how I made compiling 30% faster by using multi-threading to let my dual-core CPU work with both cores. A problem was that I had to use serialize build events to send them back to the host process. MSBuild provides these events ... [More] to loggers (number of occurrences during the test shown in parenthesis): MessageRaised (21156) ErrorRaised (0) WarningRaised (18) BuildStarted (47) BuildFinished (47) ProjectStarted (449) ProjectFinished (449) TargetStarted (2910) TargetFinished (2910)...(read more) [Less]

[Warning: long post. Short version: Building in SharpDevelop goes multi-threaded, scroll down for benchmark results] SharpDevelop 3.0.0.2694 contains a rewritten build system. It has some new features that might be interesting for AddIn developers ... [More] , but one new feature is directly useful for users, or more specifically, users with multi-core CPUs. Here a quick history on build systems in SharpDevelop: SharpDevelop 2.0 (the first version to use MSBuild), compiled solutions by telling MSBuild to build...(read more) [Less]

0.85.4 hard on the heels of 0.85.3 includes a fix for encryption problems which turned up in the forums http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/thread/18693.aspx, one for the power of open source! Its best to get this out there asap. The help file has also been updated a bunch and is now being generated with Sandcastle Help File Builder.  

Well, its been a few months but I am restarting some work on this feature. There was a #D dev meeting thing in Karlsruhe, plus some discussion and research, so it is going to be completely reworked. In particular: local storage of metadata in a ... [More] flat file is going be dropped - not really required, complex to do, and potentially a source of errors much more consistent with the VS keep it simple - the aspiration is to provide basic metadata support, not full, per-server functionality that you would see if a tool such as DBArtisan use existing metadata libraries in the open source world - one of the most difficult areas, since there is no prevailing standard for metadata, and metadata (or schema schema) schema vary dramatically - a pain if you want to browse and play with common db objects such as tables, procs, views, etc in a standard way Anyway, just (re) started, so anyone interested in helping please let me know Dickon   [Less]

0.85.3 is available for download! Dont forget if you download the help file to unblock it in the file properties dialog using windows file explorer! Please bear with the samples code the projects are a bit messy!

A new release 0.85.3 has been generated and will be made available in the next day or so! Once this has been done there will be a lull as other work takes precedence for a while.