Showing posts with label Visual Studio 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Visual Studio 2011. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Global assembly cache location change in .net 4.0

When .net Framework 4.0 release it comes with one major change and that change is GAC (Global assembly cache) location. Since first version of .net framework release GAC location is fix to %windir%/assembly. This is default location and you can change that location but default installation is always point to above location . ( If you want to know how to change GAC Location manually then look at my post http://dotnetstep.in/change-the-location-of-gac 

In .net 4.0 this default location is change to C:\Windows\Microsoft.net\Assembly

Why this thing is important to know?
1.  As default location is C:\Windows\Assembly we used to drag and drop assembly directly to GAC but this is not the case when work with 4.0
2. It is better to use GACUtil tool for .net 4.0 to install assembly.

Following link contain many information regarding this.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2660355/net-4-0-has-a-new-gac-why

Suggestion:
It would be nice if C:\Windows\Microsoft.net\Assembly as same look and feel as older GAC.
as per msdn shell extension is obsolete (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/34149zk3.aspx

Please provide your input if you have any other thing to add.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

VS 2011 Beta UI

VS2011 Beta release on 29th Feb and able to install it today. I found following thing interesting in UI Part.

  • Overall look change to black and white ( Metro UI ) style of icon and color scheme.
  • Second change found in solution explorer. Now when you expand code file like ( .cs or .vb) It expand all classes included in that file. ( Image –1)
  • When you click on particular class or method inside that class, it directly point to that part of code. (Image –1)
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    (Image  - 1)
  • When you working with web-development , you might want to switch the browser for your test. ( Like Open Page in IE , Firefox , Chrome etc). This functionality is not new as it available in older version of studio but it is more user friendly now.
    image_634668194634217496

I am going to add many as I find functionality in studio.