Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Last Month, Novell became the first provider to offer a solution for writing iPhone apps in the C# .NET stack. Being a C# Microsoft .NET developer, I immediately became excited -- but then I started reading about it, and my excitement soon soured; their offering is called monotouch, and it costs $399 for a basic license – yikes! and it requires a mac for development (boooo). Give me something I can use, please. There is an evaluation version, but it’s limited to development on an iPhone simulator though. Not sure on how many days you can “evaulate” the product for
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
As a developer, you create many projects and open many more third party projects files over the course of your development career. In doing so however, your “Recent Projects” sidebar in the startpage in VS 2008 becomes cluttered with some things that end up being temporary anyways. Here’s how to clean it up: Open regedit. Navigate through the registry to this spot: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\ProjectMRUList and you’ll see a list that looks similar to this: File1 Reg_Expand_Sx Path File2 Reg_Expand_Sx Path File3 Reg_Expand_Sx Path File4 Reg_Expand_Sx Path You need to delete the values you don’t want, and then rename all the remaining
