Strokes: achievements while programming(timdams.wordpress.com)

submitted by timdams(119) 9 months, 12 days ago

A proof-of-concept extension is in development which allows users to earn achievements while programming (C# at the moment) in Visual Studio 2010. read more...

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Visual Studio Automatic File Recovery(www.blackwasp.co.uk)

submitted by rcash(4149) 9 months, 15 days ago

Visual Studio 2005 and later editions come with a tool that automatically creates recovery data for unsaved project files. If the IDE closes unexpectedly, the recovery process will recreate the unsaved files, minimising the loss of work. read more...

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Visual Studio 2010 Color Theme Editor- Customize look of visual studio(jalpesh.blogspot.com)

submitted by jalpesh(1347) 9 months, 15 days ago

We have all love Visual Studio 2010 and I am sure you all want to change color for menus, toolbars and title etc. Today I have found one of the most interesting Extension for Visual studio 2010 from which you can manage all this things. Don’t believe me I’m sure you won’t believe but this reality and You can change the look of your favorite visual studio look and feel. There is a new extension called “Visual Studio Color Theme Editor”  from which you can do all this stuff. Here is the link for that.  ht... read more...

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Tracking Out of Scope Objects using DataTips while debugging in Visual(abhijitjana.net)

submitted by rcash(4149) 9 months, 16 days ago

Introduced in Visual Studio 2010 is a new “DataTip pinning” feature that allows you to better track variables and expressions while debugging. This post shares a small tip which deals with tracking some out of scope objects using DataTips while debugging. read more...

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A visual studio macro to automate Attach to IIS procedure(www.codewrecks.com)

submitted by alkampfer(1873) 9 months, 17 days ago

A simple macro to create a shortcut like CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+I to attach to local IIS process to speedup debugging sessions. read more...

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Visual Studio Testing Tools–Two new hotfixes released (geekswithblogs.net)

submitted by rcash(4149) 9 months, 19 days ago

Two hotfixes were released by Microsoft over the summer that fix 7 issues within the testing tools for Visual Studio. This article discusses the issues that were fixed and how to download the hotfixes. read more...

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A simple collapse-all projects button for Visual Studio(www.codeproject.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 9 months, 22 days ago

This VS Addin adds a simple menu item to collapse all projects in the open solution. It also includes a few code snippets showing how trivial it is to implement addins such as this. read more...

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VS Addin: "Class" breakpoints(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 9 months, 22 days ago

Ever needed to know when a class was being accessed, but didn't know *how* it might be accessed? Your only option would be to manually insert breakpoints at every function, property, and event in the class. Now, with the help of this VS Addin, you can do it with one command. read more...

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How to get rid of the XAML Design view inside Visual Studio IDE?(www.kunal-chowdhury.com)

submitted by kunal2383(1427) 9 months, 22 days ago

If you work in XAML pages, sometime you might noticed that the XAML page freezes for sometime while opening the page in design view. This is very annoying and many time it is responsible to crash the Visual Studio IDE. So what to do? If you use Expression Blend to design the XAML page or don't want to open the XAML in design view, this small tip will help you to improve the performance of the IDE. Read more to know. read more...

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What To Do When Inheriting A Code Base: Part 1 Inspecting the code(alfredoalvarez.com)

submitted by avatare(61) 9 months, 24 days ago

in which I inherit a gigantic code base and its my job to support it and write some new functionality for it. I want to outline a few steps and practices I like to follow in order to get to the point that I’m confident making changes to the system in place. Note is that I use MS products in most of my development so I’m doing the article with those in mind. read more...

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Visual Studio LightSwitch availability(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by rcash(4149) 10 months ago

Visual Studio LightSwitch availability Test out the newest member of the Visual Studio product family called LightSwitch. LightSwitch allows developers to create in-line business applications quickly and efficiently without consuming as much development time associated with data-driven programs. LightSwitch comes with several templates and tools available to the developer. Test drive LightSwitch today. read more...

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Speed up Visual Studio Builds(dotnet.dzone.com)

submitted by rcash(4149) 10 months, 2 days ago

When a solution contains several projects, the build time can be quite lengthy. Here are some tips and tricks to reduce the build time in Visual Studio when most common methods no longer work. read more...

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Activate only selected features while deploying a solution package in (praveenbattula.blogspot.com)

submitted by praveenbattula(629) 10 months, 3 days ago

In Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools is what we use to develop quick solutions to SharePoint. With these tools we can quickly deploy into SharePoint environment as well. But, the only issue we see here is, if we are trying to deploy a package which contains a set of 5 features then all of them will be activated by default. But, this might not be a valid behavior for us. We need to activate only 3 features while deploying the package and the other 2 features need to be installed into SharePoin... read more...

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New Improved IntelliSense with Visual Studio 2010(jalpesh.blogspot.com)

submitted by jalpesh(1347) 10 months, 10 days ago

I have posted lot many things about Visual Studio 2010 features  because its a great IDE(Integrated Development Environment).Today I am going to write about IntelliSense improvement in Visual Studio 2010. Today when I was working with Visual Studio 2008 for a old project(Nowadays I am working with Visual Studio 2010), I have found new improve IntelliSense feature in Visual Studio 2010.Filtering: Visual Studio 2010 IntelliSense is filtered better than Visual Studio 2008. I have created a sample applicati... read more...

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Deploying Database with ASP.NET Web application(www.techbubbles.com)

submitted by kalyanms1(1789) 10 months, 10 days ago

Web applications can be deployed in two different ways one by using one-click publish or by using a Web deployment package. Usually we may want to deploy our database scripts that we used along with the application deployment. This post discusses the procedures to deploy the database along with web application in Visual Studio 2010. read more...

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Code refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 Part-1(www.dotnetlogix.com)

submitted by dotnetlogix(524) 10 months, 23 days ago

Visual studio 2010 is a Great IDE(Integrated Development Environment) and we all are using it in day by day for our coding purpose. There are many great features provided by Visual Studio 2010 and Today I am going to show one of great feature called for code refactoring. read more...

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