Visual-studio

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 use ViEmu when I'm in Visual Studio. However, I still miss the huge variety of color schemes that are available for vim when I'm in Visual Studio.

Visual Studio 2010 is really big

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.

VS remote debuggers aren't backwards compatible

Last night, I installed the Orcas Beta 1 release. Aside from just a couple of issues, the whole process went quite smoothly.

Visual Studio PowerToys and the Source Outliner

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 serialized designer code was getting stuck in a new InitializeComponent in my code file (i.e. MainForm.vb). Of course, because my Designer code was a partial class, I got an error out of it. In my experience, this behavior is sort of obscure, but here is an easy fix.

Bugs in your code can result in errors in Visual Studio... but you can check it with DesignMode

Using the Object Browser in Visual Studio to find the right exception to throw

A brief post on setting up your VS2005 environment in PowerShell.

Brief thoughts on when I tried to use the Class Designer in a team setting

A short discussion on the Visual Studio error, "The designer loader did not provide a root component but has not indicated why."

Visual Studio's TracePoint feature is pretty useful.

Visual Studio and lots of time in Garbage Collection

Questioning if Visual Studio supports highlighting "User Types" for VB.NET

More details regarding a Visual Studio 2015 crash

Visual Studio was crashed five times in a row for me

Short introduction to FileHelpers

Visual Studio 2005's Clean Solution Menu

Infragistics Installation Error around "Tools.InstallCommunityControls" is not valid