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Moving on
It's been an interesting journey, these last 3 ½ years. I was hired at Microsoft, after an...
Date: 02/07/2011
Code Snippet: Ensuring a file is in a project
Every couple of weeks, I'll get a question about getting an arbitrary file on disk into a project in...
Date: 01/28/2011
Editor fundamentals: Text-Relative Adornments
Tagging along with the last editor fundamentals post on the pull/event model, today's article is the...
Date: 08/25/2010
Spell Checker Update - Perf bug on large C# files
I pushed an update (v2.22) to the Spell Checker extension just a little bit ago which fixes a pretty...
Date: 08/12/2010
Q&A: ITextSnapshot.GetText()
(This is part of the Q&A Series) This question comes from Cameron Peters, from the previous...
Date: 07/13/2010
Editor fundamentals: Push vs. Pull
(This is a new series I plan to write in occasionally, where I'll talk more generally about some of...
Date: 07/08/2010
A quick update
Sorry for (another) long hiatus, again. I've been pretty busy, the last few weeks especially,...
Date: 06/21/2010
Q&A: Read-only regions
This question was asked recently on the (internal) editor discussion alias: Is it at all possible to...
Date: 05/04/2010
Extending extensions
If you'd ever taken a peek at the code for the Spell Checker extension before a couple weeks ago,...
Date: 04/30/2010
Long time no bloggy.
Been a long time since I've blogged, sorry about that. I won't get too deep into things that have...
Date: 04/19/2010
Disabling mouse wheel zoom through IEditorOptions
One of the new features for the editor in Visual Studio 2010 is zoom, which is one of those nice...
Date: 03/18/2010
New extension: Align Assignments
Download Align Assignments on the VS Gallery, and check out the source on github. About a month ago,...
Date: 03/04/2010
New extension: CSS Is Less
While browsing StackOverflow for questions about VS2010, I came upon a question about how to make...
Date: 03/01/2010
A couple of VS2010 RC bug fixes
I've made a couple of small fixes in various extensions since the RC. Things have been busy, still,...
Date: 02/26/2010
Markdown Part 4 - Outlining
This is part of the "Markdown mode" series: Part 3.5 - Posted on the VS Gallery Part 3 - A live tool...
Date: 02/15/2010
What's new for extenders in the Visual Studio 2010 RC?
Welcome to the Visual Studio 2010 RC! This post is for everyone updating an extension from Beta 2,...
Date: 02/11/2010
Visual Studio Gallery extensions unpublished
Just FYI for anybody that has visited the Visual Studio Gallery (very) recently: All extensions have...
Date: 02/08/2010
Reader poll - How should I organize my blog posts?
Here's a question for everyone: Since switching over to using Markdown for writing my blog, I've...
Date: 02/08/2010
More bug fixes
I've had a really busy week this week (I'll hopefully be able to share more about that in the near...
Date: 02/05/2010
Markdown Part 3.5 - v0.1 posted on VS Gallery
This is part of the "Markdown mode" series: Part 3 - A live tool window previewer Part 2 - Writing a...
Date: 01/25/2010
Bug fixes
I took a little break from the Markdown work to fix a few bugs and annoyances in my other...
Date: 01/21/2010
Markdown Part 3 - A Live Tool Window Previewer
This is part of the "Markdown mode" series: Part 2 - Writing a classifier Part 1 - Markdown! Well,...
Date: 01/18/2010
New page: Extensions
I added a new page that shows the extensions I've written. I can't figure out what incantation I...
Date: 01/15/2010
Extensions
Visual Studio 2010 Extensions: You can find all these extensions by searching the Visual Studio...
Date: 01/15/2010
Markdown Part 2 - Writing a Classifier
Note: I started writing this about two months ago, and a lot has changed since then. Jeff Atwood...
Date: 01/11/2010
What's new for extenders in Beta 2?
If you are reading this, I'm sure there is a decent chance that you've either already used Visual...
Date: 11/04/2009
Gradient Selection
We've heard a few comments/complaints about how the gradient selection has been removed in Beta 2,...
Date: 10/28/2009
Updated extensions for Beta 2
I've updated all my extensions for Beta 2. Here are descriptions of the changes, as well as links to...
Date: 10/20/2009
Beta 2!
Beta 2 was officially released today (to MSDN subscribers; the general public comes a little bit...
Date: 10/19/2009
Code for ItalicComments and GoToDef extensions
Thanks to Fiona and Tim for being all managerial and figuring out the licensing story for extensions...
Date: 07/25/2009
Learning the new editor
I had a professor in college, Sidney Marshall (also known as "the man, the myth, the legend:...
Date: 07/06/2009
Collapse all but this
On this morning's little public editor conference call, someone remarked (and others agreed) that...
Date: 06/12/2009
Editor perf: markers vs. tracking spans
Rico just put up an interesting post on editor performance, so if you have a few minutes, go check...
Date: 06/06/2009
Editor docs
Just got this link from Chris – looks like the beta 1 editor docs are up. Feast and be merry....
Date: 06/01/2009