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Thu, Mar 26 2009 11:33

DevTeach 2009 Vancouver

The schedule for DevTeach 2009 Vancouver has been announced ( http://www.devteach.com/ ). There’s lots of great software development sessions from some of the leaders in our industry. If you’re planning on improving yourself, this is the conference...
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Mon, Nov 24 2008 14:59

Unable To Step Into .NET Source

I began getting a problem a while ago that I was unable to step into the .NET source in Visual Studio 2008. It happened suddenly, and I noticed it shortly after installing SP1. Given my observation it appears to be due to upgrading the SP1; but I couldn’t...
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Tue, Sep 2 2008 13:49

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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Mon, Jul 21 2008 15:32

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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Fri, Jul 18 2008 11:46

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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Tue, Jul 15 2008 9:47

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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Fri, Feb 15 2008 14:45

No "Add Method Stub" When Passing or Assigning Delegates

I finally noticed the other day the "Add method stub" SmartTag wasn't appearing for a new method name I type in. I decided I'd have a closer look... When you're practicing Test-Driven Development (TDD) you want to write a test for...
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Sun, Dec 9 2007 16:38

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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