For all those developers who prefer Emacs, there it is in Visual Studio. Emacs shortcuts put of the box supported by the Visual Studio 2005.
“The following shortcut key combinations mimic commands available in Emacs and are used while editing code in the integrated development environment (IDE).“
There is a shortcut within Visual Studio i did not know yet. Press [Ctrl], [Alt] and arrow down. The following dialog shown below should appear. Using the up and down arrow it’s possible to cycle through the open files.
There is some redundancy with the dialog showing up when [Ctrl] + [Tab] is pressed, both provide the same functionality.
While playing with Indigo, I spend several hours on duplex services and clients finally leading to an annoying issue. I tried two different examples, one from the book Programming “Indigo” and another one from the WinFX SDK documentation. In both cases, I spend hours writing down all the code, especially as the examples in the book do not fit with the current release of WCF anymore. So some fixes have been necessary. Having both examples, I tried to start the clients, but they did not receive any response from the service. If you are patient enough (which means waiting 5 to 10 minutes) the client will result in a ChannelConnectException.
What is wrong? Bindings? Any mistake in the XML config-files? The solution is as simple as it could be: Just right-click the web site in the solution browser and choose Start Options…
Uncheck NTLM Authentication which is checked by default and restart your service and client.
After restarting the service and the client, the client is processing, the service is responding and the Quick Console shows the expected output:
Have you realized already this great feature in Visual Studio 2005?
If you write down some interface or class names which do not exist yet, they appear in black (as long as you still use the default settings for the editor). As soon as you write down the appropriate class or interface the color changes from black to light blue. Why this is cool? It makes it pretty easy to find typos in your code right before compiling. If you see such code not in the appropriate color, either you have a typo in its name or the class or the interface is not implemented yet. It makes a lot of sense when you write down code but the implementation of a class or interface is not yet available because it is written by another person. It’s a nice feature in VS 2005.
If you have to use often contracts in Microsoft Communication Foundatation aka Indigo, sometimes you become really bored by implementing all the interfaces. Visual Studio 2005 helps you saving a lot of time by choosing the interface your class inherits from. Using the Implement Interface menu item you will get all the methods required by the interface.
