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Visual Studio 2005 beta2 is out!
Finally the wait is over and beta2 is out!
It is already available in the for MSDN subscribers and the rest of you can check out this site: https://msdn.microsoft.com/getthebetas/.
Also check this blog entry for beta1\CTP uninstall instructions…
Adding a button to Outlook's context menu.
Took me a while to figure this one out…
To add a button to the Outlook explorer context menu you need to get the “Context Menu” CommandBar.
This command bar instance is only created when the user right clicks in the explorer so in order to know when such a bar is
created you have to listen to the OnUpdate event of the Explorer’s CommandBars collection.
Inside the OnUpdate event handler you can check if the context menu CommandBar exist :
Organizing your code
Scott Hanselman has posted a very interesting blog entry about organizing the code for software projects.
News scan
On the news:
- Sony’s PlayStation Portable Released at Midnight (Wired article)
- Apple Settles With Man Who Leaked Software
- Plants Challenge Genetic Inheritance Laws
- Remains of ancient Egyptian seafaring ships discovered
- Exotic Black Holes Spawn New Universal Law
And as an ex-Israeli soldier this reminded me my service there…
Indeed, government agencies are a silly place to work at…
News scan
Site links:
- Eric Virro has a great site that covers all aspects of ripping digital audio. Highly recommended reading if you are curios about lossless, transcoding, cleaning, converting etc.
- The Paint.NET site has been redesigned…
On the news:
What does SAP stands for?
A question I am being asked alot latelly… Well here’s the answer:
German: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung
English: Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing
Microsoft DirectX Slides from the Game Developers Conference 2005
Get them here:
Game Developers Conference 2005
This download includes presentations given by the Windows gaming and graphics team at the Game Developers Conference 2005. Included is the Microsoft DirectX Developer Day content and the High-Level Shader Language (HLSL) Workshop content.
Outlook addin programming and Marshal.ReleaseComObject
I have been having lots of troubles with the Outlook addin I was working on.
This post about using Marshal.ReleaseComObject helped me fix some of my problems:
Managed Applications Survey: Who is building or shipping .NET applications today?
Keith Brown has setup a wiki page encouraging people to list their managed applications.
The intent here is to simply start creating a list of all the many, and varied applications that people work on using .NET code.
New DirectX Developers Center on MSDN
Microsoft’s MSDN site features the new DirectX developers center which now looks and feels like the other developers center on the site.