DevJourney: a blog about .NET development.
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VS2010 Tips #3: Updating multiple Visual Studio 2010 Help content with a single download
Visual Studio 2010 comes with a new Help viewer. If you didn’t realize that, run the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Documentation and you will see what I mean (I assume you have installed it when you’re installing VS2010). Even though it provides lighter experience and updateable help contents, the pain starts when you’re updating the…
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VS2010 Tips #2: Visual Studio 2010 side-by-side installation with earlier versions
In some forums in found that people asking whether he/she can install Visual Studio 2010 side-by-side with earlier version(s) of it. The answer is YES. I have Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, and Visual Studio 2010 installed in one machine (OS is Vista Ultimate 32bit). If I open Program Files, I can see that…
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VS2010 Tips #1: .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is required for Multi-targeting in Visual Studio 2010
Multi-targeting feature is one of Visual Studio 2010 goodies. It was firstly introduced in Visual Studio 2008 which able to do multi-targeting for .NET 3.5, .NET 3.0, and .NET 2.0. In Visual Studio 2010, you will be able to choose between .NET 4, .NET 3.5, .NET 3.0, and .NET 2.0. .NET Framework 4 is what…
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From BlogEngine.NET to WordPress
Well… I would welcome myself to this blog… After a full night of struggling with hosting migration, now everything is back to normal except the blog. Yeah, I’m now using WordPress. Oops I said the blog is not normal, it’s not because of WordPress though, instead all of my posts from Sept 2009 will not…
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“Invalid FORMATETC structure” error on control drag n drop
Today when I was developing Silverlight app using Telerik RadControls, there was an error “Invalid FORMATETC structure” prevented me to complete the drag n drop of RadControls to the XAML editor. I didn’t have any idea what was caused it because I could still drag n drop the Button control to the XAML. I thought…
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