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• 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! Posted nov 13 2009, 10:16 by Jo-wen with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio

• 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... Posted okt 29 2009, 10:07 by Jo-wen with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio

• 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  ... Posted okt 19 2009, 07:56 by Jo-wen with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio

• 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... Posted jun 24 2009, 01:54 by Jo-wen with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio

• Use .config settings from your test project

  There's an extra step you have to take when you write a unit-test for a method that reads a config-setting. Assuming you have set up a separate test project, it will look for the config file in the test project directory. We could simply add an app... Posted jun 15 2009, 01:30 by Jo-wen with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio

• Team Foundation Sidekicks

  Team Foundation Sidekicks is a freely downloadable product suite designed to improve productivity when working with team-foundation version control. There is another companion product that works with MSBuild. The utilities provide a graphical interface... Posted jun 05 2009, 03:32 by Jo-wen with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio

• Keyboard shortcut to run a single test in Visual Studio

  Tip of the day: CTRL + R, CTRL + T This is the shortcut of the action "Test.DebugTestsInCurrentContext", so you can immediately run the test that has the current focus. This saves a lot of time comparing to the scenario where you need to locate... Posted mei 18 2009, 04:00 by Jo-wen with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio

• Faster compilation of Visual Studio Projects

  When you reference another project in combination with "Copy local = true", the specified assembly is being copied. This is real easy, but has a big disadvantage: the assembly is being copied! :p The problem is that you get the same assembly... Posted apr 23 2009, 03:05 by Jo-wen with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio

• WPF & Inheritance

  Probably one of the first things you've tried is to subclass Window (or Page/UserControl/etc) and expected to get the xaml for free in derived classes... This is called "visual inheritance", and it doesn't work as expected (yet)....... Posted jan 23 2009, 10:43 by Jo-wen with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio, WPF, Expression Suite

• VSPerfMon.exe vs unit-tests

  I was stepping through one of my unit tests, and all of a sudden Visual Studio pops up an error: "The Visual Studio performance and coverage logging engine is already running on the computer. Therefore, the test run cannot continue. Close the pending... Posted jan 08 2009, 04:32 by Jo-wen with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio

• using the ASP.NET compilation tool

  I'm automating the build/deployment process of my web app. This includes the "publish"-step. (right-mouse on the web project -> publish). The dialog presented is just a visual wrapper around the aspnet_compiler.exe . quote from msdn:... Posted dec 16 2008, 03:10 by Jo-wen with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio

• I have a confession to make.... I'm a junkie

  a keyboard junkie that is! I like to keep my hands on the keyboard as much as possible. Grabbing that silly blob next to your keyboard take's precious time... That's why I love to work with tools like Coderush from DevExpress. (they have an Express... Posted nov 11 2008, 11:16 by Jo-wen with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio

• PowerCommands vs Asp.Net MVC

  Sinds een paar dagen kan ik geen views meer openen in mijn mvc project. Visual Studio 2008 sluit direct zonder een of andere melding. Ik zie alleen een melding terugkomen in de errorlog: .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.3053 - Fatal Execution Engine Error... Posted okt 09 2008, 12:17 by Jo-wen with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio, Asp.Net MVC

• "... the Microsoft Visual C# 2008 compiler could not be created"

  Ik had laatst een hele vervelende bug in Visual Studio 2008. Ik kon me niet herinneren iets heel spannends te hebben gedaan, maar op een gegeven moment kreeg ik deze melding: "Project XXX could not be opened because the Microsoft Visual C# 2008 compiler... Posted sep 01 2008, 09:22 by Jo-wen with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio

• Bug in Entity Framework (metadata=res://*/ )

  ok, de titel is een beetje vaag, maar de bug komt alleen voor in een specifiek scenario (wat ik niet in een zin kan omschrijven) Ik heb een class library met een DataModel en andere domeinlogica erin. Nu wil ik vanuit een apart testproject testjes schrijven... Posted jul 31 2008, 10:16 by Jo-wen with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Studio, Entity Framework