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Visual Studio 2010/2008/2005 – how can i check who has a specific file...
When you are using Team Foundation System (TFS) for version control, the project manager sometimes shows a file as being checked out by someone else, but it doesn’t show who that someone else is. The...
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Cleanup: IntelliTrace Log ( .iTrace ) files and Visual Studio 2010 SP 1
While cleaning up my system, I found a while bunch of .iTrace files in “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft Visual Studio\10.0\TraceDebugging” on a Windows XP system at a...
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WinForms UserControl and Visual Studio 2010 debugging – The process cannot...
When doing WinForms development in Visual Studio 2010 (including SP1), be aware of a bug with UserControls that hamper debugging; sometimes you get an error like this: Error 9 Unable to copy file...
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Added a few links to my “Tools” page, @WordPress bug spuriously inserting div...
While re-designing a Visual Studio 2010 plus Delphi XE2 install for a specific client, I updated some of my Tools page links: Delphi tools ModelMaker Code Explorer GExperts with experimental find...
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More vulnerabilities solved than just the ASP.NET hash collision DoS:...
In addition to the ASP.NET hash collision Denial of Service attack, Microsoft patches 3 more vulnerabilities resulting in an Aggregate Severity Rating that is Critical. This is a summary of the...
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Upgrading a Windows XP machine with Visual Studio 2005: KB2251481 Security...
Every once in a while you need to maintain really old stuff, and start update an old VM. In case of Visual Studio 2005, the Windows Update and Microsoft Update will get you into a condition where it...
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.NET/C#: Using IDisposable to restore temporary settrings example:...
This is WinForms code from a long time ago, but the concept of using an IDisposable interface to do resource cleanup and restore a temporary setting is very valid. You use the code below like this:...
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO formats: Microsoft, please do this the same...
Hopefully they will add Visual Studio 2011 ISOs (no, not the current ones that still download the prerequisites in the background) like they did with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISOs: English 64-bit...
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“Cannot navigate to definition” annoyance in Visual Studio 2010 – (did it...
This use case drove me nuts in Visual Studio 2010 for a while, but can be solved. Use cases: double click on a word to select it press Ctrl-C to copy the selected text result is either of these two...
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Solution for TFS2005/2010 and VS2005/2010: Add/New Work Item menu still...
Sometimes when creating new Team work items in Visual Studio 2010 connected to Team Foundation System 2010, you get a sub menu like this: “New Work Item menu still loading… (try again in a moment)”...
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A few reminders to self for AMP in VS11: debugging, writing, etc
Reminders to self: With VS 11 you have to choose what debugger you want to use for a particular debugging session, CPU or GPU (unlike debugging native code called from managed assemblies) AMP can only...
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KB2251481 update issues (via: MS11-049: Description of the security update...
August 2011, Microsoft re-issued KB2251481. They should not have done that, because if you have the original KB2251481 installed (also known as KB2251481.T369_32ToU865_32) you need to go through the...
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Adding a “Reverse Assignment” to CodeRush for Visual Studio .NET (via: Q35048...
As a Delphi user, I’m missing the “Reverse Assignment” feature in the Visual Studio version of CodeRush. Since CodeRush is very extendable (Mark is still explaining to people how the idea for that came...
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Glyphs are apparently a designer term for icons that are not colorful. Get...
Scott’s blog posts usually contain a truckload of side information in between the main topic. He was discussing the new ‘designed’ look of Visual Studio 11 (the mantra: just give it a shot, and then...
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TFS – Undelete File or Folder – brilliantly easy from the Visual Studio IDE:...
Never knew it was so brilliantly easy to undelete files from TFS: you can do it in Visual Studio, by enabling “Show deleted items in the Source Control Explorer” in the settings. Just look at TFS –...
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Direct Visual Studio 2012 RC and Windows 8 Release Preview ISO download URLs
Somehow many software vendors seem to make it a sport to make it hard to get download URLs. So here is a bunch of direct download URLs for the (almost new <g>) Visual Studio 2012 RC (formerly and...
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.NET/C# – WinForms splash screen research material
I’m in the midst of converting a suite of WinForms C# projects from a range of .NET versions (1.x till 3.x) to 4 totalling some million lines of code. One of the problems is that some people hacked...
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Visual Studio and Delphi: Getting a new GUID in the code editor
Earlier this week, I already wrote about different idioms in different IDEs. Here is another one, again a feature I don’t use often: getting a fresh GUID in the IDE. Visual Studio Most often you need...
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Known #VS2010 issue + workaround: Visual Studio 2010 crashes when trying to...
One of my Visual Studio 2010 VMs gives me an error when recording a temporary macro: --------------------------- Vsaenv --------------------------- Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall...
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Visual Studio Smart Tag keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl-. and Shift+Alt-F10
I’m a keyboard fan, so recently I have put up a new Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts category and tried to add all old relevant posts to it (staying organized is time consuming, but in the end it pays...
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