Visual studio database edition – how to think to get started
Visual studio database edition is part of the “normal” Visual studio. One cannot be totally sure of this since Microsofts licences are as comprehensible as scientology. I made two tries at it before I...
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Visual studio tip: shift-alt-enter for maximizing working area, and have two...
Due to some reason unknown to man there is in Windows the idea of every window to have a title bar, unusable for anything but dragging and double clicking and holding approximately four buttons....
View ArticleRunning two version managers against one solution
Since I have been having problems with reaching my company’s TFS server from home I started with SVN. One could say I use SVN as an offline SCM. #1: Don’t use Visual studio for both version managers...
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Track your document in Visual studio solution explorer window
This setting has been around a long time but it seems to still elude users. There is a way to have the document you have open in Visual studio to also be tracked and highlighted in the Solution...
View ArticleVisual studio test project fails compiling due to clashing test name
In Visual studio 2010 I have a solution with some projects and a unit test project. Besides the usual configurations Debug and Release I also have Debug_Test. One sunny day when compiling the project...
View ArticleDpack is going open source
I just found out that Dpack, possibly the most important gratis tool for Visual studio there is going open source. Now I wish for time to make this super product even better!
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Version managing a Solution in Visual studio
There is no problem versioning a project - just edit the AssemblyInfo.cs file. But how does one update all assemblies in a solution without having to update this file for every project? Create a...
View ArticleShortcuts when doing Visual studio unit test debugging
Short story: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182470.aspx I still miss a shortcut for “Debug the last unit test”. There is “Repeat the last run” but that runs and doesn’t debug. Strange...
View ArticleVisual studio snippet for an enhanced #region in csharp
Visual studio contains snippets. These are “shortcuts” for writing various code. Try writing for in the editor and text is typed in for you and you get placeholders for faster code writing. One can...
View ArticleReAttach is a Visual studio plugin to reattach the debugger
I have earlier, here and here, written about how to write a macro to attach the debugger to a running process as it is often faster than starting the process anew. Lately the Visual studio plugin...
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Why I don’t recommend my customers to rely on Visual studio for development.
Abstract The only way to edit architecture and modelling with Visual studio is to buy the very expensive Ultimate edition. This means that it will be not everyone can be involved in the process of...
View ArticleChange the font in the IDE
I don’t think the standard type in Visual studio is the best one just because it is what is shipped. Instead I test different and from 10+ years I have come to the conclusions: 1) Sans serif is better...
View ArticleResharper and Visual studio short cuts
There are some I use that might be useful for my readers too: Resharper has 3 main combinations. shift-alt-enter – Somewhat resembles Visual studio’s ctrl-.. ctrl-shift-r – Refactoring. Resharper’s...
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Start IIS express through command prompt
I seldom use F5 (start the application in debugging mode in Visual studio) but instead run it normally and connect the debugger only when I need to. Connecting the debugger takes a measurable amount of...
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