Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Mercurial ships as a command line tool. Here are some UI based tools to make it work that much better on Windows and in Visual Studio.
TortoiseHg – A Windows Explorer integration for Mercurial (You can download the latest versions of Mercurial and TortoiseHg from the Mercurial site)
HgScc – A source ...
Tags: Mercurial, Visual Studio
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Here’s nasty little quirk of MSBuild and Visual Studio which took me some time to solve last night… I have a C# project file which has been modified to import a custom .targets file. This targets file in turn imports some settings (property and item groups) using the following ...
Tags: Coding, Gotchas, Visual Studio
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
I've been thinking of other ways to put my Windows Home Server to good use and my recent trip to Florida got me exploring ways I could work on a couple of personal coding projects while traveling. Eventually much of this code may well get published on CodePlex but ...
Tags: Coding, Tools, Visual Studio, Windows Home Server
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
One of the questions I got at the p&p Summit after my distributed agile development talk was, how do you use Microsoft Visual Source Safe (VSS) with distributed teams? This is an issue because VSS was never written with distribution in mind. The VSS client connects directly to the ...
Tags: Distributed teams, Events, Proven practices, Seattle, Tools, Visual Studio
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Teams at patterns & practices use Visual Studio Team System to run their projects. Here are a couple of approaches for getting a traditional Scrum or XP task board experience with Team System; creating paper task cards from Team System using Word's mail merge feature and the Conchango Scrum for ...
Tags: Distributed teams, Proven practices, Scrum, Visual Studio
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
I was mucking around with code snippets over the weekend - it killed the time in between feeling sick. As my unit testing framework of choice is XUnit I thought I've have a go at adding a snippet or two around that.
xUnit already comes with a nice code snippet for ...
Tags: C#, Code snippets, TDD, Visual Studio, xUnit
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Given that occasionally I'm prone to playing the odd game on my home computer I didn't want a lot of the services that are only used for development running all the time. Solution... use the Services tab in the Computer Management console and configure them to start manually. Then use ...
Tags: Coding, PowerShell, Visual Studio
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Some (not so) random surfing got me to this... How to get rid of the auto-generated #region for implemented interfaces - Daniel Cazzulino's Blog There's a setting in VS that allows you to turn off the #region generation when using VS's implement interface feature (ALT-SHIFT-F10). 99% of the time ...
Tags: C#, Coding, Visual Studio
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Back in September I ran into some issues using SN.EXE on Vista. SN would look like it had added a strong name verification skipping entry when really it hadn't. Doing the SN -Vr *,######### with the SN.EXE tool that ships with Visual Studio 2008 gives a much better behavior. ...
Tags: Gotchas, Visual Studio
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Recently I've been making some changes to some WordPress templates written in PHP.
How did I edit my PHP files? Turns out that David Cumps has added coloring support for PHP Visual Studio 2008! Notepad2 also supports PHP coloring but doesn't copy/paste into LiveWriter with the coloring and doesn't allow you ...
Tags: Coding, Visual Studio
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