Unless you have been living under a rock the past few days you already know about the recent release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 Beta. Since I know you already downloaded and installed all the shiny new toys, let?s take a quick look at how to get started writing a custom […]
Read MoreListen Now! Kate Gregory has probably forgotten more coding tricks than I have ever learned. That means that she likes her Visual Studio with meat and potatoes. With the new extensibility?model in Visual Studio 2010,? Visual Studio can now be the primary source or protein in your IDE diet. In this episode Kate tells us […]
Read MoreSo I am using Visual Studio 2008 for developing WPF and Silverlight applications. The one thing that really annoys me is when I open a .XAML file and then Visual Studio automatically opens the file in split view mode. I am sure you are well aware of how VS 2008 support for the preview pane […]
Read MoreSo, I was installing Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 on one of my machines the other day and the funniest thing happened. After it successfully installed, I was prompted to send an error report. Since when is a successful operation a problem? Now, of course, I am assuming this is intentional and is transmitting […]
Read MoreI can?t believe I have lived this long without discovering this little gem inside VS options. You know how Visual Studio creates default files in a test project when you create a new one? Those days of immediate file deletion are over, baby!
Read MoreWhat? Why would anyone want to do that? In my case, I am building a class (as in teach a class) for TDD that uses only Visual Studio native tools. So, how do I disable resharper to make sure I don’t get any pesky resharper files into my directory structure? By using Visual Studio’s Add-In […]
Read MoreI am a simple man. All I ever wanted was drag and drop for source control. That folder chooser dialog was a bear. Now we will get it with Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Thank goodness. From the web site: Simplified the user experience through cleaner “Add to Source Control” dialogs, drag and drop support to […]
Read MoreIf you are running Team System, there is feature in the source control option in your project level settings that you should be aware of. Right click your team project in the Project Explorer window of Visual Studio. Go here: And get this screen. Why? Because if you have made some changes to a file […]
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