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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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Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:43 AM

Drag and drop of control selections onto forms designer toolbox

A while back I blogged about the ability we have in Visual Studio to select text in a text editor and drag it onto the toolbox.  Once on the toolbox you could drag those items back into the text editor to effectively “paste” frequently needed snippets...
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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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Friday, June 13, 2008 12:08 PM

Trace to output window without adding code.

Want to trace some run-time data to the output window while debugging without changing and recompiling your code? Use Tracepoints: http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/06/13/did-you-know-you-can-use-tracepoints-to-log-printf-or-console-writeline...
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Friday, February 15, 2008 2:45 PM

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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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:03 AM

Is C++/CLI a Second Class Language with Microsoft?

The post frequency on the Visual C++ team blog is reasonably high. Some posts deal with new features that were added to VC++ 2008. But, is Visual C++ a second-class citizen in the Visual Studio product group? Recently the Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison...
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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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Monday, November 26, 2007 2:31 PM

New warning CS0809 in C# 3 (Visual Studio 2008)

There were several breaking changes (fixes) in C# 3 from C# 2. One is the ability to attribute a member override with ObsoleteAttribute without also attributing it the virtual member in the base class. For example, the following will compile without error...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:17 PM

New Contributor to the C# Developer Centre

A new contributor to the C# Developer Centre has posted a new article. This article goes into great detail about extension methods, what they are and how they're implemented. If you're more than curious about this feature of the soon-to-be-release...
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Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:43 AM

Web seminars on Visual Studio 2008

In the same fashion as Visual Studio 2008, Bill Lodin of IT Mentors is giving Web seminars on Visual Studio 2008. Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 - Next-Generation Web Applications, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:02 AM

My Visual Studio 2008 Code Analysis Rules

Although a couple of suggestion for changes to existing rules seem to have made it into Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, unfortunately, none of my suggestions for new Code Analysis rules made it into Orcas Beta 2 (and thus likely not in RTM). I was holding...
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Monday, August 27, 2007 3:04 PM

Visual Studio 2008 Managed Code Analysis

I had a quick look at the managed code analysis (FxCop) rules the other day to see what's new and what's been removed. Unfortunately, one of the analysis engines wasn't able to be "resurrected" in time for the release, so there's...
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