Monday, December 24th, 2007
I ran into a problem this morning where Visual Studio 2008 wasn't letting me debug through some source files. These files weren't part of my solution, I was getting them from an external share. I'd checked all the obvious things; enable just my code was disabled and the symbols were ...
Tags: Gotchas, Visual Studio
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
I've never been completely happy with the way Visual Studio cleans solutions. If you take a look at how the Clean target is defined in Microsoft.Common.targets you'll see its doing some clever stuff to look at what the last build produced and remove that. My experience is that over time ...
Tags: Coding, Visual Studio
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
If you've ever tried to apply the same set of settings to all the projects in a solution you'll know it can be somewhat time consuming. You have to edit each project file and change it's settings. Let's say you'd like to run code analysis on Release builds but ignore ...
Tags: Coding, Visual Studio
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
It was finally time to re-pave my machine which had been getting a bit sluggish of late. I started off with Peter's machine repave post and created my own backlog of things I install. A while back a blogged about tools for personal coding projects which proved pretty popular. I ...
Tags: Coding, PowerShell, Tools, Visual Studio, xUnit
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
As is always the way. In the process of writing my last post I found something else that has caught me out in the past.
Now it's important to note that this is by design. VS Pro 2005 does not support testing projects. The really good news is that it will ...
Tags: Gotchas, TDD, Visual Studio
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
VSSDK Assist is a set of utilities and tools to help people who want to start extending Visual Studio. Pablo wrote this in his "spare time" while helping us ship Service Factory: Modeling Edition! He gave a talk to the p&p team about some of the things it lets you. ...
Tags: Coding, Software factories, Visual Studio
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Software development is full of pitfalls. Sometimes it's the little things that can have you up burning the midnight oil. The dumb stuff that in the cold light of day you wonder how you ever missed. So when you read some of these posts you may end up thinking "Who ...
Tags: Coding, Gotchas, Visual Studio
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Saturday, April 7th, 2007
For those of you who haven’t fallen madly in love with the default code diff’ing tool in TFS he’s how to use WinDiff or another diff tool with TFS…
“Just go to Tools->Options->Source Control->Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and click on Configure User Tools to specify the diff tool of ...
Tags: Coding, TFS, Visual Studio
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Saturday, April 7th, 2007
So my new(ish) team, patterns and practices, use TFS rather than the internal tool that I used while developing VS 2005. I'm still learning some of the finer points of TFS to allow me to do some of the things I used to take for granted.
One complaint I have ...
Tags: Coding, TFS, Visual Studio
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
A while back Eric blogged about How VSTO solves the Excel LCID or Locale issue using a transparent proxy object. While I didn't write the original code I did spend a fair amount of time working on it. The LCID Proxy ensures that all calls to the Excel OM are called using ...
Tags: Visual Studio, VSTO
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