OK, I’m totally confused now.  I swore that CheckedListBoxes were missing and then I noticed I misread — or so I thought.

The documentation for Control.BringToFront does not say it is available for the Compact Framework, yet I’m using it.

If it wasn’t for this link though — that I actually found earlier but didn’t feel the need to post as it only made me look sillier — I would still be searching for the existence of CheckedListBox in the .NET CF.

I wonder why no mention is made on certain classes that they are available for the Compact Framework?  Is there some documentation that I am not finding, reading properly… ?

More information on what can and cannot be messed with after you do your research like I mentioned here.

Visual Studio (2008) ‘Clean Solution’ Option

“The Elder” is apparently a freaking genius.  Tip #2 changed my life although apparently I was already doing this.

I freaked out at first — I thought I was guilty of it. Rather, in the IDE I use for PHP code I group similar projects in same name spaces or work spaces. I got to thinking though, and I NEVER plan to develop any PHP for deployment into executable bytecode or encoded somehow. So grouping projects under one general solution label is fine.

Brainsick Solutions for example is a namespace in most of my C# and PHP code. That’s where:

• blog.* WordPress widgets and blog development takes place.
• portfolio.* modifications to the portfolio gallery and development of separate galleries.
• …several more app.*s in development.

I’ll be honest I didn’t follow beyond this basic example but I see its usefulness value.

Use Visual Studio 2005 to build CRM Callouts!

This EXCELLENT article “Dissecting and Putting the Visual Studio 2005 Generated Data Access Layer Into Persepective” from Leonardo Esposito at CoDe Magazine does a great job of explaining this topic.

The question, “How do I make Visual Studio auto generate braces for a function block?” had some really awesome replies with TONS of useful links.

Here’s another good link on the DTE/macros topic.

While on the hunt to learn how to code in C# using .NET manually (that is, without relying on the code generation templates) I ran across this article called Customizing Visual Studio’s Code Generation Templates.

While on the hunt to figure out why CheckedListBox is unavailable in my Smart Device project in Visual Studio 2008 Professional I came across this useful article about manually updating references.