Phil Haack’s post about named format strings a week or so ago, and the followup discussion on Phil’s blog this week, got me intrigued at lunchtime today – intrigued enough to have a play. As Phil says, it’s a fairly simple problem space, but it does have some gnarly edge cases, and he’d put together a fairly thorough set of unit tests which tripped up some alternative implementations he’d come across. As it happens, I’ve been nursing some thoughts about string formatting in the back of my mind ever since I came across F#’s strongly typed format expressions, which...
Time for an update on the JQuery IntelliSense story. Since I last updated the blog on this subject, things have moved on enormously: Microsoft started shipping JQuery 1.2.6 with ASP.NET MVC, and announced their intention to do the same with VS 2010. Alongside that, they handed over their own annotated intellisense file to the JQuery project to support intellisense in VS 2008 To make that even easier to use, they released a patch for VS2008 SP1 that allows the intellisense parser to read an alternate –vsdoc.js file instead of...