ReSharper: quick navigation among recently accessed files

Today I found out a really very useful feature in ReSharper Visual Studio add-in. I personally use file navigation features a hell of the time, because most of the times classes have relations between them, or you want to see a specific code snippet somewhere else, etc. Visual Studio .NET 2003 doesn't have this feature (in contrast to Visual Studio 2005), so here is ReSharper to the rescue.

When you open Visual Studio .NET 2003 having ReSharper installed, just press CTRL + E and you will see a list of recently accessed files. Veeery, very handy! The name of this comand is "ReSharper.GotoRecentFiles". Besides this really great feature, ReSharper has the possibility to navigate you to a given file from the solution, or to navigate you to a given type - all these kinda "small" goodies, which Java developers are so used to, but most C++ developers like me think as an "innovation" :). Ah, and if you think that this is great, just see the refactoring support coming with this add-in - really awesome! :).

For those of you who are hasn't seen this add-in for Visual Studio .NET 7.0 and 7.1 (currently, there is a beta version for Visual Studio 2005), just go to this ReSharper site.

Managed .NET stored procedures in Oracle 10g

I know that this is my third post for the day, but when I saw this I was so excited. Yes, there are managed stored procedures in Oracle as well. Just a quick note, the new Microsoft SQL Server 2005 supports managed stored procedures, which are procedures written in one of the managed .NET languages. The benefit? Well, you don't have to know T-SQL in this case, in order to have access to your data. It is obvious that Oracle hasn't waited too long and now not only they support Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, but have implemented the same type of SPs in their database server. Impressive!

I found one very good article about this feature in Oracle 10g. Check it out it is really great (click here)! What I find astonishing with it, is the Deployment wizard - once you have created your stored procedure in a managed .NET programming language, you have easy deployment through a nice-and-tidy wizard. Well, another story is that you can debug your Oracle .NET stored procedures through Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 - yeah, no kiddin'! :) Just read this article...

FxCop 1.35 Beta 1 for .NET 2.0 is released

Today I saw that there is a new beta released for the famous FxCop tool. This tool obviously targets the brand new Microsoft .NET framework 2.0. Still, I couldn't found what are the changes in functionality as compared to version 1.35, but I will review this beta thoroughly during the weekend and will keep you posted.

Meanwhile, if you want to evaluate this code analysis tool by yourself, just go to this page.

Creating partial trust applications with Visual Studio 2005

Today I found out that the new Visual Studio 2005 gives to its developers the means to easily build partial trust applications. So far, most of the .NET based applications are full trust, basically because it is really cumbersome to define all the required permissions and enumerate them declaratively, as it should be done with Visual Studio .NET 2003 for example.

What you have with Visual Studio 2005, is the "Security" tab in the Project properties dialog. There you can easily enable "Enable ClickOnce Security Settings" and select "This a partial trust application". The next step is to "calculate" the permissions that your code requires. A, there is something else you should pay attention - if you want to calculate the minimum permissions set, be sure to select the Custom zone from the "Zone your application will be installed from".