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A list of useful link for Team Foundation Server

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:30:11 GMT

A list of useful link for Team Foundation Server, if you use TFS you probably will find these useful.

NCrunch, The Incredible TDD Tool!

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:46:55 GMT

A review of the TDD tool 'NCrunch'.

Code Search Sucks

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:28:29 GMT

The IDE is a software developer's toolbench. For the most part it's an ordered chaos, with all of a developer's favorite windows and extensions at the ready. Unfortunately, the IDE's complexity helps to hide some of its glaring shortcomings -- it's easy to focus on the shiny wrenches across the front while ignoring your Grandfather's 1970s disc sander that's about to melt down from misuse. Like Grandpa's sander, code search is a tool that's in dire need of an overhaul.

My first video for code refactoring in visual studio 2010

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:58:22 GMT

have been planning this since long but now Its happened. I have created a video for visual studio 2010 code refactoring features. I have made this video public. Following is a link for that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvC63rE7tB4&feature=share Here is the video..

Visual Studio Achievements, now a reality!

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:13:24 GMT

Follow up to last year's comic story on Visual Studio having game-like achievements.

Microsoft Visual Studio Tips and Tricks

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:47:22 GMT

Learn how to become a Visual Studio coding guru! In this fast-paced session,learn to write code faster than a speeding bullet,leap around large projects in a single bound,and become more powerful than a locomotive with the debugger. We take a wild ride through C# and Visual Basic IDE features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and indispensible out-of-the-box solutions that will help you get your job done better and faster.

Open Tabs to the Right in Visual Studio 2010

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:01:06 GMT

It really annoys me that files are opened in the tab bar in Visual Studio by default to the left.

Customize aspect of output window in visual studio 2010

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:06:06 GMT

Write a simple Visual Studio 2010 addin to format the content of the "output" window.

C#, Visual Studio 2010, No more Client profile in 5minutes.

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:26:51 GMT

C#, Visual Studio 2010, No more Client profile in 5minutes. I guess I'm not alone being tired of running into the "Client profile" framework version used when creating a Console application in Visual Studio 2010. Don't know how life is going to be in coming version of Visual Studio, but until then, lets show you a solution that takes no more than 5 minutes.

Colorize Visual Studio Output

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:39:49 GMT

The VSColorOutput extension provides color highlighting for the build and debug output windows in Visual Studio. Check it out on Codeplex!

BugAid tool for Visual Studio review

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:41:13 GMT

Visualize, search and compare live objects data when debugging a C# application in Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010.

Inheritance Margin extension for Visual Studio 2010 review

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:15:05 GMT

Visualize overridden and overriding methods in C# code.

TFS 2010 Enterprise Installation and Configuration Video Guide

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:32:47 GMT

This guide provides step by step of TFS 2010 Enterprise Installation and Configuration, this guide help you organize your time and effort this guide include 93 videos about each deep details steps

Roslyn Syntax Visualizer Tools

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:25:35 GMT

Chris Sells highlights some of the tools provided as a part of the Roslyn CTP which allow you to gain a better understanding of the details of the syntax tree, discussing the use of the Syntax Visualizer Extension and Syntax Debugger Visualizer.

Publishing Visual Studio extensions with VS 2010 and VS 11 support

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:02:05 GMT

If your Visual Studio extension supports both VS 2010/VS 11 and doesn't contain much version specific code you may want to develop it in Visual Studio 2010 and just specify that it supports Visual Studio 11 as well.

Tasks in Visual Studio

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:31:37 GMT

Chances are you already use comments in your code. This article shows you how to create a list of tasks similar to creating comments in Visual Studio.

Shark Compiler Control for Visual Studio review

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:35:34 GMT

Speed up C++ compilation in Visual Studio 2010, 2008 and 2005 using multiple processor cores.

VS 11 Developer Preview: Multiple / Floating Tab Wells

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:50:06 GMT

Here is a cool free tip on how to add multiple tab wells in VS 2011. The tips are taken from a book that is being advertised in the article. As well the command lines and how to turn this feature on and off within the IDE are provided.

CSS Editor Hierarchical Indentation in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Pr

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:52:49 GMT

A simple tip that shows you how to turn on automatic hierarchical indentation in CSS Editor for ViSual Studio 2011 Developer Preview.

Developing Device Drivers in Studio 11

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:40:32 GMT

With Visual Studio 11. You can now build drivers in Visual Studio, deploy them to test machines automatically, and debug (in kernel-mode!) using the Visual Studio debugger tool windows and source code debugging support. if you want to convert an existing driver, there's a new option File | Convert Sources which will convert your SOURCES file to a Visual Studio solution.

Create an output folder for each project in your solution...

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 05:48:07 GMT

Create an output folder for each project in your solution, like _PublishedWebsites for web applications.

ZenCoding extension for Visual Studio 2010 review

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:14:33 GMT

Speed up HTML coding in Visual Studio 2010 expanding short Zen commands into full-fledged HTML code.

What is new in .Net framework 4.5?

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:20:34 GMT

The post has all the new features in .Net framework 4.5 in a single poster. What is nice about the poster is that it marks the feature as a significant improvement, a performance improvement, asynchronous improvement wherever applicable. It is definitely nice poster to zoom and print.

CSS speed typing for Visual Studio

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:55:08 GMT

Mads Kristensen has developed a Visual Studio Extension that aids in the typing of CSS. With this extension No more entering : {} or ; This article is an explanation of the Extension with download link. Great Job. Enjoy

Adding Compiled .ResX Resources To NuGet Packages

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:00:31 GMT

Getting the code-behind to show up for .resx files with this hack.