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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 1:49 PM

Becoming a Visual Studio Jedi Part 1

Becoming a Visual Studio 2008 (and often Visual Studio 2005) Jedi In much the same grain as James' Resharper Jedi posts, I'm beginning a series of posts on becoming a Visual Studio Jedi. It involves getting the most out of Visual Studio off-the...
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Monday, July 21, 2008 3:32 PM

Working with Resharper's External Annotation XML Files

Resharper 4.0 has external annotation XML files that you can create to give Resharper more information about your code. For example, you can tell Resharper that a particular method does not accept a null argument. For example, the following method does...
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Friday, July 18, 2008 11:46 AM

Drag-copying in Visual Studio Solution Explorer.

NOTE: I've tried this in Visual Studio 2008 (VS2k8), I'm assuming the same thing happens in Visual Studio 2005 (VS2k5). In the process of refactoring, it's *very* common for me to rename a type. This is most easily done by renaming the file...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:47 AM

Nested Types

Recently Michael Features blogged about nested types . The title was almost "nested types considered harmful". I don't agree. I don't agree that they're any more harmful than any other C# construct (except goto...). Nested types...
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Sunday, December 09, 2007 4:38 PM

New Warning CS1060 in C# 3 (Visual Studio 2008)

Recompiling C# 2 (Visual Studio 2005) code in C# 3 (Visual Studio 2008), you may incounter a new warning that didn't used to ocur: Warning CS1060: Use of possibly unassigned field 'fieldName'. Struct instance variables are initially unassigned...
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