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Visual Studio Links #71

Visual Studio Hacks — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:04:31 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. Sara Ford's Tip of the Day #305 shows how to reevaluate expressions in the QuickWatch window . Brad Abrams explains how VS208 Multitargeting

re: MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Add a filtered task with navigation to the Task List from a Visual Studio add-in

Utkarsh — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:57:59 GMT

Hi Carlos,

I want to load the Task List with the "Add-ins and macros" selected when VS.NET IDE is first opened. However, I am not able to do so, when I use the Raise command in OnStartupComplete() method. Kindly let me know how to provide this feature.

Visual Studio Links #70

Visual Studio Hacks — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:11:47 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. Sara Ford's Tip of the Day #303 covers the QuickWatch window . Carlos Quintero posted The diagram of the convoluted build configuration

Visual Studio Links #69

Visual Studio Hacks — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:10:52 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. Busy week this week so this is a quick all at once version. Greg Duncan posted a link to release announcement for XamlPadX 4.0 . Sasha

re: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 new icon showing versión “9”

Rich — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:27:12 GMT

I had the same sort of need, but only to distinguish VS 2005 from 2008. So I took the VS 2005 icon and turned it 90° -- made it look like an 8.

Visual Studio Links #59

Visual Studio Hacks — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:53:52 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. Sara Ford's Tip of the Day #270 explains that you can have all processes break when one process breaks . Daniel Moth posted two cool

re: How do I get a System.Type from a type name?

turkey — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:49:02 GMT

Thanx You.. Perfect Docs

re: It's now official: the Visual Studio Gallery

Anthony — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:45:49 GMT

I just wanted to give you a heads up of some updates we’ve made to the Visual Studio Gallery (www.visualstudiogallery.com) to support RSS feeds, Tagging, HTML editor for details pages and other new features.

re: devenv.exe /SafeMode and add-ins in Visual Studio 2005 / 2008

Mohamed Meligy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:48:39 GMT

Not all add-ins get disabled though. An example is Resharper (and I think PowerCommands, but not sure).

Visual Studio Links #37

Visual Studio Hacks — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:55:27 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. US ISV Developer Evangelism Team has posted a link to 46 tutorials that the ASP.NET team has created for the ASP.NET AJAX Control

Visual Studio Links #36

Visual Studio Hacks — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:16:51 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. The June 2008 CTP of the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework has been released. VSX Team announced the VSX Developer Conference

re: MZ-Tools Articles Series: BUG: SolutionBuild.Build method builds only one project in Visual Studio add-ins or macros

Nicolas Deslandes — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:47:49 GMT

Here is another solution, by temporarily setting the OnlySaveStartupProjectsAndDependencies to false:

Sub BuildSolution()

Dim props As Properties = DTE.Properties("Environment", "ProjectsAndSolution")

Dim prop As [Property] = props.Item("OnlySaveStartupProjectsAndDependencies")

Dim oldValue = prop.Value

prop.Value = False

Try

DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild.Build()

Finally

prop.Value = oldValue

End Try

End Sub

Visual Studio Links #31

Visual Studio Hacks — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:28:14 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. Carlos Quintero posted links to help solve a System.UnauthorizedAccessException when registering a Visual Studio add-in for COM Interop

Visual Studio Links #27

Visual Studio Hacks — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:11:47 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. Carlos Quintero wrote an article explaining how to open the web browser and navigate to a page from a Visual Studio add-in or macro

Visual Studio Links #27

Visual Studio Hacks — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:11:40 GMT

re: Using Virtual PC to test Visual Studio "Orcas"

Raz — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:14:16 GMT

Beautiful. Absolutely freakin' beautiful. Thanks for helping fix the disappearing cursor. It was driving me crazy, too.

Raz

re: MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Create a setup for a Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 add-in using Inno Setup

Carlosq — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:58:35 GMT

You can customize whether admin rights are required or not.

If you register the add-in using per-user registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER) or per-user folders, it will work fine, but notice that on Windows Vista, without admin rights the user won't be able to install on C:\Program Files, which is the default folder for installations, he will need to use one of its own folders (C:\Users\<user>) which is weird for an installation.

re: MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Create a setup for a Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 add-in using Inno Setup

Utkarsh — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:35:03 GMT

Thanks for the info. Does Inno setup check user privileges before starting the installer? Few days back, I used MSI based installation for one of my addin and it failed to create entry in registry (Lookin folder). I want user with minimum privileges also to install my addin through setup. Hope this will be possible through Inno setup.

re: MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Create a setup for a Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 add-in using Inno Setup

Dmitry Pavlov — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:53:07 GMT

Hi Carlos,

I also use Inno Setup for creating installers for my packages due to problems with custom actions in MSI.

That might be interesting for Inno Setup users who works in Visual Studio: Lexpa - Inno Setup Integration for Visual Studio.

URL: www.visualstudiogallery.com/ExtensionDetails.aspx

re: Using Virtual PC to test Visual Studio "Orcas"

Jim Cook — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:12:07 GMT

Thank you for the quick fix for disappearing cursors (knocking the acceleration down a notch).

This was driving me crazy!