Archive for February, 2010
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Patrick recently posted about something he found odd when installing the VS 2010 RC – which was that code intellisense for C# wasn’t working. When he pulled up Tools->Options and checked under the Text Editor->C# settings he noticed that the reason Intellisense wasn’t working was because his profile had them turned off – and he couldn’t understand why it was configured to be off by default:
Why does this happen?
The above situation occurs because:
1) When you run VS 2010 the first time on a machine that has had VS 2008 installed on it, it asks you if you want to import your existing VS 2008 profile settings. By default this checkbox is checked – which means you by default automatically import your existing settings.
2) Some VS plugins – for example Resharper – turn off the built-in C# code intellisense within VS and instead replace it with their own implementation. If you’ve installed Resharper on VS 2008, the above VS code intellisense profile settings are turned off. When you import your existing profile during VS 2010’s first time run experience the code intellisense settings import over in a disabled state. If you haven’t installed Resharper on VS 2010 (which is a separate install) – then by default you’ll end up with intellisense turned off.
How to Fix this?
Fixing this situation with the VS 2010 RC is pretty easy. Just do one of two things:
1) Use the Tools->Options menu command, select the Text Editor->C# settings, and then check the two circled check boxes above (Auto-list members and Parameter information). Intellisense will then be turned on and work fine.
or:
2) Install the version of Resharper that works with the VS 2010 RC. It then enables intellisense using its own mechanism.
We are modifying the profile import behavior in the final release of VS 2010
We’ve heard reports of a few people running into this – and since the behavior is pretty confusing we are modifying the profile import behavior with the final release of VS 2010 to avoid it. If a plugin has turned intellisense off with VS 2008, by default when you import the profile into VS 2010 we will re-enable it. This will ensure that on a clean VS 2010 install intellisense always works by default.
Hope this helps,
Scott
February 27th, 2010 | Posted in .NET, Community News, Miscellaneous, Visual Studio | Comments Off
David Anderson: “TraceMonkey has rocket boosters, so it runs really fast when the boosters are on, but the boosters can’t always be turned on.”
Opera’s new JIT compiler Carakan is doing well as we just posted. What is Mozilla doing with TraceMonkey? A lot.
Mozilla JägerMonkey adds method based JIT (of V8 and Nitro fame) to keep [...]
February 26th, 2010 | Posted in Front Page, JavaScript, Miscellaneous, Mozilla, Performance | Comments Off
The Opera team has released 10.50 for Mac and along with it some impressive performance numbers:
Stabilization Improvements: You will find that this build is much more stable than the pre-alpha build.
More polished user interface: The whole UI is more polished now. We’re still not done yet, and expect more polishes and improvements in [...]
February 26th, 2010 | Posted in Browsers, Front Page, Miscellaneous | Comments Off
Bastian Allgeier has developed a beautiful, native looking web application called ZooTool.
Zootool is a visual bookmark tool for images, videos, documents and links. It is completely based on Mootools, even though it looks more like a Cappuccino app!
Play with it. Enjoy it.
February 26th, 2010 | Posted in Front Page, Miscellaneous, MooTools, Showcase | Comments Off
EnhanceJS is a new library from the Filament Group, who are serious about progressive enhancement and accessibility.
What is EnhanceJS?
EnhanceJS is a new JavaScript framework (a single 2.5kb JavaScript file once minified/gzipped) that that automates a series of browser tests to ensure that advanced CSS and JavaScript features will render properly before they’re loaded to the [...]
February 25th, 2010 | Posted in Accessibility, Front Page, JavaScript, Library, Miscellaneous | Comments Off
Reposted from my personal blog where I tinker with the Web. I tweet about this stuff here.
As you move to a new platform, it is interesting to watch your brain morph over time. I remember switching from Windows to Mac. At first the fonts looked blurry and weird. The mouse pointer didn’t weight right. The [...]
February 25th, 2010 | Posted in Front Page, Miscellaneous, Mobile | Comments Off
In my never ending quest to find weird and wonderful ways to abuse CSS and all its little intricacies, I have come up with a pretty good way of using CSS to create custom radio and checkbox inputs without JavaScript, that are accessible, keyboard controlled, don’t use any hacks and degrade nicely in non supporting [...]
February 24th, 2010 | Posted in CSS, Front Page, Miscellaneous | Comments Off
Piotr Zalewa has created a really great playground, jsFiddle, for testing sample code and playing with the Web. With an area for the holy trinity of the Web (HTML, CSS, JS) and an output region, you can get right to hacking.
It goes beyond this though. You can also add resources, an Ajax echo backend, and [...]
February 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Debugging, Front Page, JavaScript, Miscellaneous, Utility | Comments Off
Most of the thinking on iPad’s exclusion of Flash has been focused on battery life, performance, stability, or control of the application market, but here’s a Flash developer who’s thinking differently. Morgan Adams argues it’s all about the mouseover, and he raises a point that is just as relevant to rich Javascript apps.
Many (if not [...]
February 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Apple, Editorial, Flash, Front Page, Miscellaneous, iPhone | Comments Off
Steve Souders has put together a browser performance wishlist that answers the question “What are the most important changes browsers could make to improve performance?”
download scripts without blocking
SCRIPT attributes
resource packages
border-radius
cache redirects
link prefetch
Web Timing spec
remote JS debugging
Web Sockets
History
anchor ping
progressive XHR
stylesheet & inline JS
SCRIPT DEFER [...]
February 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Browsers, Front Page, Miscellaneous, Performance | Comments Off
