When you’re working with Visual Studio 2010, these tools are a must have! The name says it all, but I must emphasize there really is a lot of added value. I already work with CodeRush and Refactor Pro, so usually I’m not interested in all those new pluggins/tools. This free tool from Microsoft has some [...]
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Intellisense broken in Visual Studio 2010
I recently installed a new laptop with all the dev software. Most importantly, Visual Studio 2010 and the DevExpress productivity tools. At some point, intellisense was working strange. I didn’t give it much attention at the time. But after a while it really started to annoy me. At first, I thought it was some kind [...]
System.MissingMethodException when running unit test
Sometimes when I want to run my unit-tests, I get the MissingMethod exception. In general, this problem is usually caused by mismatch between the live code and executed test binary. Here are some things you could try: clean the solution and all output directories rebuild the solution refresh the test view change the active configuration [...]
Modify Visual Studio itemTemplates
When you add new (code)files to your solution, 95% of the time you’ll make some adjustments. It only costs a few seconds to modify the generated code, but it’s mindnumbing work and most important, easily avoidable! Just edit the template that Visual Studio uses. They are contained in zip files, that you have to replace [...]
Combine files in Visual Studio
In the solution explorer, you often see that two files are linked to each other, for instance with the Resources file. You can have a Resources.resx, with a linked Resources.Designer.cs “behind” it. This possibility to hide the file reduces screen noise, which is definitely a good thing! Most of the time, you’re not interested in [...]
Pin a debugger watch
The fact that Visual Studio has been designed in WPF exposes a ton of possibilities. Here’s a cool feature : pinning a debugger watch Note: these "pinned-windows” even remain after restarting your application!
Add Reference Dialog finally improved!!
I really dig Visual Studio, and its dev team always does an outstanding job in adding new (complex) features… That’s why it’s so frustrating they didn’t improve the “Add Reference dialog”. But I’m not aware of any dialog/feature that has been more complained about, so they could not ignore it anymore…. they fixed it!!
VS2010 Beta2 released
The beta2 versions of the following products are now downloadable from microsoft: Vs2010 Ultimate Vs2010 Professional Vs2010 Team Foundation Server Vs2010 Premium Vs2010 DSL SDK Vs2010 Team Explorer .NetFX 4 ps: this is not the complete list happy testing!
Can’t connect to TFS after installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1
I installed the VS2008 SP1 on our server, and couldn’t connect to the TFS anymore. As I was in the process of installing more software updates, I didn’t immediately realize which update caused these problems. So I googled on the error message: “TF30059: Fatal error while initializing web service” and luckily others had the same [...]
Open Sql Server Express instance while working in Visual Studio
In my Visual Studio project, I've added a local mdf database ("Service based database") to support Sql Server Express. By default, these databases are configured to run as user-instances. As a side-effect, it's not possible to work with your project as you would normally do, and at the same time open the database in Management [...]