Ever wondered about all the commands and keyboard bindings in Visual Studio? Ever wondered how many different ways exist to run a given command? I wondered how many keyboard mappings there are in Visual Studio and luckily, Peter Provost has a little VS Add-in up on GitHub that dumps all keys to the Output window. […]
Read MoreI noticed this blog post from Scott Hanselman the other day about Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop. This post included a screenshot from the installation program. Something that really took me by the throat is this: Notice that the Express edition of Visual Studio seems to require no less than 4.15 GB of […]
Read MoreI know that a lot of people have had bad experiences with TFS over the years, and so does the TFS development team. The team at Microsoft is very intent on learning what it is that people find irritating, problematic, or difficult, and correcting it. Some major headway was made with the 2010 release of […]
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 MoreNo, this isn’t another prognostication post foretelling the woes of the world for the next year. This is a note to everyone who hasn’t yet played with the Visual Studio ALM tools and Team Foundation Server 2010. Folks, this product is getting better. That stands to reason. After all, this is basically version 3 of […]
Read MoreAt the Agile 2009 conference in Chicago, I got to meet some great people I?d previously known only in electronic form. Tommy Norman is one of those folks, as he and I have had many conversations on Twitter. Tommy is a System Architect at Compuware in Nashville, TN where focuses on Application Lifecycle Management. He […]
Read MoreDownload it here. This will give you Data Dude functionality in Visual Studio for SQL 2008. Plus, this is where you get all Agile in your DB development. Unit testing stored procs and whatnot. There are a lot of other features, too.
Read MoreBy now I you’ve likely heard the term ALM. For the uninitiated, here is the latest from Wikipedia. Application lifecycle management (ALM) regards the process of delivering software as a continuously repeating cycle of inter-related steps: definition, design, development, testing, deployment and management. Each of these steps needs to be carefully monitored and controlled. Does […]
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