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Fri, Jul 25 2008 9:20

Visual Studio Gallery - addins, tools, templates etc for VS2005 and VS2008

I'm sure that for many people this isn't news but i figured i'd regurgitate it anyways as i seem to loose some of my tools whenever i move onto another project (as i'm mainly client bound) and keep forgetting where i got them from. So...
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Sun, Sep 30 2007 21:50

Run IT on a Virtual Hard Disk

I don't know how often i've had to delay playing with a new piece of released technology, just because I was in the middle of another set of tests and simply didn't have the time to create my own virtual server environment again to accommodate...
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Tue, Jun 5 2007 23:28

Defy All Challenges - Microsoft Visual Studio

I caught a glimpse at this ad today on one of the sites i frequent when i'm terribly bored. It looked pretty cool and eventhough i'm rarely in the habit of clicking on ads i just had to check it out - so, mission accomplished for the marketing...
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Fri, Feb 23 2007 13:56

Web Development Learning Series - by Frank Arrigo

it's absolutely brilliant! Microsoft has just released a new portal for Web Development. Microsoft Web Development Learning Series which caters seriously for, well you guessed it, web development. It addresses some rather curious topics, such as ASP.Net...
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Wed, Feb 21 2007 20:11

Visual Studio 2005 code snippets

Microsoft released a whole bunch of code snippets and i think it's gone pretty much unnoticed. A whole range of them are available in neat categories on the MSDN web site: Application Code Snippets For working with Isolated Storage, ClickOnce tasks, Console...
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Wed, Feb 21 2007 16:39

Reflector 5.0 has been released

It's here - Reflector 5.0 has been released and i'm sure a lot of people has been waiting patiently for it. On Lutz Roeder's site you can find links to Reflector and the different add-ins that's available. I'm not entirely sure but i don't think there...
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Thu, Feb 15 2007 21:15

Jetbrains - resharper 2.5.1

One of the few tools that i've found i just simply can't live without is JetBrain's ReSharper for Visual Studio 2005. Some of the features are just outright brilliant! Let me list those that are, without a doubt, my favorites: Status indicator this one...
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Wed, Feb 14 2007 17:03

SQL Server 20045 Express SP2 December CTP

A note to fellow developers - the SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Service Pack 2 December CTP is available (since 19th of December that is) and i suggest getting hold of it as it will (so far) run on Vista. Click here to download
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Fri, Feb 2 2007 16:40

Visual Studio 2005 Powertoys

I forgot to mention this one - fortunately i was reminded about the release on Jannik Anker's blog. Overview Visual Studio 2005 IDE Enhancements are a set of Visual Studio extensions that are designed to make you more productive. These enhancements are...
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Sun, Jan 28 2007 21:17

Calling Visual Studio 2005 fix for Vista - when can we expect a fix?

hmmmmmm...i'm going to look for a way to get some information on when the Visual Studio development team is going to fix the issues Vista has with Visual Studio 2005. Just had an unexpected crash and now i can't open up my solution again. great...back...
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Thu, Jan 25 2007 20:49

Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team Suite Service Pack 1

If you're running MS Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite you need to get hold of Service Pack 1 which has been released. You can get it from here Cheers and happy coding!
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Thu, Jan 18 2007 9:12

free single-user license OnTime 2006

Another one of those add-ins..when will it ever stop? well, easy answer here is, never. Eventhough Visual Studio comes packed with features and tools, there's always some clever soul who comes up with a way to extend it to suit our greedy developer needs...
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Mon, Jan 15 2007 20:55

Visual Studio GUI tips #2

Back to Visual Studio again - it is afterall my personal favorite development GUI (go figure, durr!!). One of the few tricks to helping you out is how to create a tasklist - it can be useful if you get a call, just as you're in the middle of some code...
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Fri, Jan 12 2007 5:43

Visual Studio 2005 GUI tips

One of my favorite small features in Visual Studio 2005 is the way you can very easily get an overview of what active tools you have running and what files you have running. i've found this very helpful when the application's been large, spanning many...
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Fri, Jan 12 2007 5:40

Visual Studio 2005 Add-ins

Since Visual Studio is my prefered development tool i've installed tons of add-ins over the past few years.. most has been raved about from one end of the world to another but i've shifted through quite a few so far but some of my favorite ones (which...
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Wed, Jan 10 2007 22:07

CodeKeep error surfacing..

Well, one of my favorite Visual Studio add-ins, CodeKeep , is throwing an error whenever i try to "keep" or view any of my snippets. it's most frustrating because i've been using it for quite a while without any issues, but all of a sudden its throwing...
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Sat, Oct 28 2006 23:35

VS2005 Start Page items..

Some time back I mentioned the start page in VS 2005 and where it got the information from..what i didn't mention was that you can actually decide that yourself. the default address is: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=45192&clcid=409 which...
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Wed, Sep 27 2006 0:10

Mitch Wheat throws a gem out there

Mitch Wheat throws a curve ball for sure... Mitch Wheat - VS2005 Tips and Tricks - Visual Studio 2005 IDE Productivity Tiips and Tricks there's actually even a few tricks in that list that i didn't know about.. Nice Mitch.. just be fast to read...
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Wed, Sep 20 2006 23:43

New idea - let readers suggest a topic to be covered

Sometimes you can get rather frustrated, that the exact scenario you're trying to solve a problem with, isn't documented on MSDN - or you end up finding 100s of tutorials which never really works in your case. So, why not try something new - suggest a...
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Sun, Sep 10 2006 2:05

ASP.Net 2.0, ValidationGroup property article

Well, i was bored tonight (plus i have a pounding headache) so decided to fiddle around a bit and build the foundation for a larger article. As i was putting the images and code together i thought i might as well write up a very small article for the...
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