Making the most out of JavaScript Intellisense in VS2012
Chris Price, September 18th, 2012
Intellisense for JavaScript has always felt to me like an unfinished addition to Visual Studio, something that promises so much but doesn’t deliver for larger projects. Manually adding and then maintaining another set of dependency references just for Intellisense has just never seemed worth it. However, with the launch of Visual Studio 2012 Intellisense has [...]
Introduction to Parallelism in .NET 4.0
Jonathan Cardy, November 16th, 2010
Back in the day, processors had a single core and clock speeds increased steadily every year. This meant that although writing multi-threaded code for a single CPU gave some performance improvements (since single-core CPUs usually try to execute multiple threads), it was hardly the top of any developer’s list of priorities. In the last few [...]
JSLint in Visual Studio Part 2
Luke Page, October 25th, 2010
A while ago I blogged about creating an extension in visual studio 2010 that ran JSLint on files. I started by getting a JavaScript interpreter based on the V8 engine to run JSLint and then just before publishing I discovered someone else had already started an extension. Luckily, that person proved friendly and over the [...]
VS 2010, vs-doc and Javascript Intellisense
Luke Page, August 27th, 2010
Recently I read Scott Guthrie’s post on improved JavaScript Intellisense in Visual Studio 2010. Whilst the post is very impressive, showing off Visual Studio’s ability to parse the JavaScript in order to provide intelligent Intellisense, when I came to apply it to more real world examples and use vs-doc to give the Intellisense hints, I [...]