Visual Studio
Just installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and the first thing I needed to see was how well the xaml designer worked. More specifically, I wanted to know if design-time data binding worked properly. Well here’s the screen shot. Looks great! The only thing was when I first opened the view instead of the formatted time, it displayed the name of the object in DataContext (CodeCamp.Model.Message). When I changed the binding from {Binding Date, … } to {Binding Path=Date,…} it fixed it. What was really weird was when I changed it back (removed “Path=”) the problem didn’t...
Considering how integrated Microsoft tools usually are the result is frustrating when you tell Visual Studio to open SQL files using Sql Server Management Studio (SSMS). I really don't like using Visual Studio to edit T-SQL files but in the past, before I discovered this tip, each SQL file I opened would open in a new instance of SSMS. Try it: Open a solution which contains SQL files Right-click any SQL file and select “Open With…” Click “Add” Browse to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\Ssms.exe" or if you're...