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My favorite text editor right now is vim. As a result, I cannot develop without my (customized) vim key bindings. To get around that when writing .NET code, I...
I decided to download the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP tonight. It comes packaged in a virtual machine (not sure if it is Vista or what yet......
I am a huge fan of the immediate window in Visual Studio. I say forget the watch window - I'd rather use code to check values. In case you didn't know, you can...
This is probably a big duh for some of you out there, but if you're running the remote debugger that comes packaged with Visual Studio 2008 (you can find it at...
Last night, I installed the Orcas Beta 1 release. Aside from just a couple of issues, the whole process went quite smoothly. One of the issues I had already...
Recently, Microsoft released version 3.0 of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK, so I thought I'd download it because I like downloading stuff. Anyway, I thought I'd...
In one of my projects at work, I ran into a situation where Visual Studio 2005 didn't recognize my designer files (i.e. MainForm.Designer.vb) so all of the...
Like many other users of Visual Studio 2005, I've occasionally received the WSoD (White Screen of Death) while using the designer. And like a typical user, I...
Prompted primarily by Karl Sequin's excellent "Understanding and Using Exceptions" post, I was recently attempting to clean up some of the generic exceptions...
Many thanks to Robert W. Anderson for this solution. In his post VS2005 PowerShell Prompt, Robert details how to create your PowerShell profile script which...
I wanted to share an experience I had last week while working with my development team. I think I've mentioned this before, but we're the first group in my...
Ever seen this error in Visual Studio 2005? I've seen it all too often and it is really annoying. However, I did find a possible fix today. I was working in a...
First thing - jfo's coding is a great blog. I regularly find her posts very helpful and relevant to what I'm working on. If you're not already reading her...
A few days ago, I was working in Visual Studio 2005 and I was getting awful performance out of it. I decided to pull up Process Explorer to see if I could...
I was curious if anyone knew if Visual Studio 2005 had the capability to highlight or color "User Types" (i.e. classes you write yourself) while coding in...
After some severe frustration research, I was able to discover how to repro the crash in Visual Studio 2005 yesterday. It is actually quite simple to do. You...
5+ crashes in a row is a little much. And I wasn't even in the designer. And yes, I rebooted. It still happened. I don't know exactly what I did to fix it,...
By way of Larkware, I came across the FileHelpers library written by Marcos Meli. It looks like a great solution for dealing with delimited or fixed length...
Has anyone noticed a new menu item under the Build menu in Visual Studio 2005? There is a Clean Solution item that will remove all of the compiled binaries...
I ran into that error today while attempting to install Infragistics NetAdvantage 2005. I'm not exactly sure about why the error occurred, but I was able to...