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Re: Going Top Gun on Your Code

John Efford — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:10:41 -0000

Fantastic.

Re: Going Top Gun on Your Code

David Starr — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:33:29 -0000

yes.
yes.

Re: Taking Baby Steps with ScriptCS

Jason Imison — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:29:05 -0000

There is a proof of concept for Sublime Text here https://github.com/PaulCampbel... . It's a long way behind the Vim plugin though.

Re: Going Top Gun on Your Code

John Efford — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:55:08 -0000

These features look great.
Will the "Head Up Display" features be accessible from the keyboard?
Will other test frameworks apart from MS test be supported?

Re: Going Top Gun on Your Code

Andrew MacNeill — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:08:31 -0000

Yes - that sounds perfect.

Re: Going Top Gun on Your Code

David Starr — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:06:05 -0000

Actually, what I hear you asking for here is a new indicator that might be called "Call Hierarchy" which makes a lot of sense. Is that right?

Re: Going Top Gun on Your Code

Andrew MacNeill — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 05:16:44 -0000

Probably relationships. I'm likely looking about it the wrong way - as it would almost be impossible to define this but if my "SavePage" method called a method named "RecalculateScore" and that method called "CalculateFormula", it would be useful to see that tree when looking at the CalculateFormula Method. Otherwise I would have to go to the RecalculateScore reference and then HeadsUp back to the Savepage.

As one of the senior developers on a project, I'm trying to encourage the developers to think about where the code is REALLY being called from, instead of just the direct reference.

Imagine that in a "cloud" or "web" graph, a method that is only called a few times but those methods are then called by a piece of code that calls LOTS of other methods, That could be a more important piece of code in terms of making changes affecting things, more than a piece of code that only has one access point.

I realize in writing this that what I'm describing is definitely out of scope for the "heads up display" but the way it appears just seems like it's calling out for a related add-in. If, in the interim I could define (somehow) that SavePage is an important part of the CalculateFormula method implementation, and that was part of the HeadsUp, it might prove useful.

It's very awesome - and as always, awesomeness just pushes for more awesomeness.

(then again, I may simply be exposing some bad implementation decisions :) )

Re: Going Top Gun on Your Code

David Starr — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:54:10 -0000

@Andrew, what is the relationship you are trying to navigate there?

Inheritance relationships, extensions, implementations, etc?

Re: Going Top Gun on Your Code

Andrew MacNeill — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 07:14:37 -0000

Very groovy (thanks B. Clay) --- it does make it easier to track those references...could have used it yesterday in fact.

What would be really useful would be the ability to "DEFINE" some of those references for others. For example, if I could identify that code X really mattered to Code Y (even though the reference was a few layers down), and made those visible in the references section (with an explanation). Maybe it's based on some XML in the summary line - but that would be mucho useful as well

Re: Going Top Gun on Your Code

David Starr — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:25:41 -0000

There is no question that Git is on the horizon. We care about Git. Git is love.

Re: Going Top Gun on Your Code

Mike C — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:55:07 -0000

I'd love to see this include Mercurial and Git support in addition to TFS.

Re: Taking Baby Steps with ScriptCS

Glenn Block — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:02:19 -0000

Jason this looks pretty sweet. Can you port it to Sublime Text? :-)

Re: Taking Baby Steps with ScriptCS

Glenn Block — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:01:28 -0000

Jason, not sure. However scriptcs will as we are not dependent on Mono / we have an engine abstraction. The mono support is in flight.

Re: Going Top Gun on Your Code

B. Clay Shannon — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:06:47 -0000

Looking forward to VS2013! These "Head Up Display" features are very groovy ("cool" is so passe).

Re: Taking Baby Steps with ScriptCS

JanVanRyswyck — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 01:59:53 -0000

Looks very interesting. Thanks for pointing this out.

Re: Taking Baby Steps with ScriptCS

Jason Imison — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:37:27 -0000

Will Roslyn ever run on Mono? You might be interested in a project with a different goal - https://github.com/nosami/Omni... . It's full project development (intellisense, project navigation, refactoring etc.) without VS and runs on Windows, Linux and OSX.

Would sure be interesting to combine the two though.

Re: Taking Baby Steps with ScriptCS

JanVanRyswyck — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 10:22:35 -0000

Very cool! Thanks for the update on the deployment story. Looking forward to see this in action.

Re: Taking Baby Steps with ScriptCS

Glenn Block — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 02:03:34 -0000

Nice post Jan! Glad you are finding scriptcs useful!

On the binaries, we have a PR waiting to be merged right now which will by default always create a binary which will be recompiled when the scripts are changed. We will still support in-memory compilation as we do now.

As the exporter you mentioned, that's more about offering a way to grow up a script project to a full blown VS project. Having script packs complicates achieving this, but we believe it is still doable.

Looking forward to seeing what you do with it and more posts from you in the future. Oh and also any contributions to the code base :-)

Re: Developer humor

Pablo — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:29:26 -0000

Hilarious!

Re: Author Report: Daniel Suarez

Aaron Jackson — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:26:40 -0000

I just finished Threat Vector by Tom Clancy. It takes on cyberwarfare. I just downloaded 'Daemon' and am looking forward to listening to it on my way home tonight.

Re: Author Report: Daniel Suarez

Steve Crane — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:22:40 -0000

I don't know how old you guys are but maybe age isn't a good excuse for not knowing Daniel Suarez's work. I turn 51 tomorrow and have read, or rather listened to, all three of his books.

Kill Decision is a techno-thriller like the first two but adds more scientific detail, with looks at insect swarming behaviour. It also has a slightly more military angle.

I've listened to the Audible.com audio versions, all narrated by Jeff Gurner who does a good job of bringing the stories to life. If there are any of the three you've yet to buy then I'd suggest giving the audio version some consideration.

Re: Author Report: Daniel Suarez

Chris Bilson — Sat, 18 May 2013 00:08:20 -0000

If not having heard of Daniel Suarez is an indicator of agedness then I must be older than you! Thanks for the recommendation. I will read this on my new long bus commute to the eastside.

Re: Developer humor

David Starr — Fri, 17 May 2013 23:12:42 -0000

These really are great. Good post made my day. Thanks, Jason.

Re: Developer humor

Lackuna — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:34:03 -0000

Great tool for developers wanting to make their content multilingual: Ackuna.

Ackuna.com let's you upload your source files and get the text translated for free. No extra formatting involved.

Couldn't start a new thread, so thought I'd post it here.

Re: Developer humor

Georgi Hadzhigeorgiev — Fri, 10 May 2013 07:24:14 -0000

Brilliant!