Today, I saw James Kendrick brag about his three headed desktop, and I thought well, that’s something I can better him at. So here’s a picture of my five headed desktop (six if you count the calculator that accidentally made the shot :-)):

Huh, now we’re talking :-) And that’s just before I turn around to look at my second desktop computer and the laptop! …

Two bugs have been fixed in this one:

1. When an electric delete operation was triggered while the caret was in virtual space, the caret would jump to the start of the virtual space, often the start of the line. This could happen to you, for example, when you had a new line inserted somewhere (maybe because you had used the electric semicolon in the previous line) that you didn’t want. You’d hit delete to get the next statement in the next line to move to the caret position, but the caret (tog …

I’m not going to make the same mistake again as last time and try to provide an updated version in the old location… so, although there are only a few fixes, the current version has its own place on this page. Here’s the link to version 1.1.3: CR_ElectricEditing-1.1.3.zip

In this version, the checkbox that can switch on and off the whole plugin functionality should finally work correctly. A bug has also been fixed that occurred after an elect …

Now I’ve finally had a look at the image library that comes with VS.NET 2005 beta 2. In a previous post I had commented on the video that Aaron had made about the library, and there seemed to be a number of varying views on the topic as well as on the final contents of the library. So what’s in it? Well, it’s part light, part dark… The icons, at least those in Windows XP format (74 are included of those), have several different formats, ranging from 16x16 to 48x48 and from 256 colours to True …

As astonishing as this problem was, I found a very easy fix for it, suggested in the Microsoft Product Feedback Center, if you can believe it. Apparently, a similar issue was already in the beta 1 refresh that came out many months ago, but was never actually solved. I tried to make my voice heard here, maybe it’ll be fixed in the future. Meanwhile, here’s what needs to be done to get networking back: Uninstall (or don’t install from the start) the “Microsoft Device Emulator version 1.0 Beta 2 - …

You can find their original announcement here and this link at Microsoft tells you much more about Refactor! itself. With the availability of new C# refactoring functionality in VS.NET 2005, Microsoft seem to have noticed the lack of similar functionality for Visual Basic developers. That’s why a cooperation was struck up with Developer Express for them to offer their fantastic DXCore-based refactoring product in a free version to VB.NET 2005 developers.

There’s lots of additional information …

Now that Developer Express have made a version of Refactor! available for free for VB.NET 2005 (see my previous post), why should one consider to spend money for the professional edition of the product? Detailed information on this topic is still in the works, but here’s the bottom line (quoting Richard Morris, the CTO of Developer Express):

The features of Refactor! Pro (R!pro) that are not in Refactor! (R!) include

• more languages (Visual Basic AND C#)
• more Visual Studio IDEs (VS2 …

I have just finished installing VS.NET 2005 beta 2 on my Tablet PC for the second time, with the exact same result: I can’t get any networking whatsoever to work on the system. What I did is really quite simple: I cleaned up the system very carefully because there had been an installation of beta 1 on it before. I found a lot of information about that on the web, like here, I also had collected some experience doing that a few times with the CTPs (on a different system). I’m reasonably sure I d …