Windows Development: Switching JIT debuggers (via: Stack Overflow)
StackOverflow user User Sertac Akyuz posted a small Delphi snippet showing how to switch the Windows JIT debugger. I’ll need to complete it somewhere, but since the concept is interesting, here is his...
View ArticleAttach attach a debugger to a WebService (via: Stack Overflow)
Some things you have done for ages, are already phrased so nicely, the only thing you can do is quote. Thanks Dave Coulter: You can attach the Visual Studio debugger to a process by: Debug > Attach...
View ArticleScott Hanselman’s 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for...
After a couple of years break, there is the new Scott Hanselman’s 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows – Scott Hanselman. A must read! –jeroenFiled under: .NET, Development,...
View Article.NET/Visual Studio: The ContextSwitchDeadlock doesn’t necessarily mean your...
Thanks Pedro! (emphasis below is mine) The ContextSwitchDeadlock doesn’t necessarily mean your code has an issue, just that there is a potential. If you go to Debug > Exceptions in the menu and...
View ArticleWord 2007/2010/2013: Enabling the Word Developer Tab on the ribbon (via:...
This is one of the things I tend to forget, as you do it once per machine, and the place to do it is not logical to me. I mainly use it to quickly record a Macro (boy, I wish Office had a...
View ArticleGet Started with iOS Development using RemObject C# | RemObjects Software
Wow, just wow for this teaser: This page provides a few videos to help you get started with RemObjects C# for iOS development. and this: This page provides a few videos to help you get started with...
View ArticleTFS/Visual Studio: View Pending Changes in Other Workspaces
For my reminder list: lots of people forget to checkin/undo changes in TFS of stuff automatically checked out by Visual Studio when investigating a problem in their program. This shows how to view...
View ArticleWindows Explorer – copying path/name of files and folders (full/short;...
This Explorer extension is brilliant: Path Copy Copy – Home. It works in Windows XP and up (including 7, 8 .x, 20xx Server, etc). The Open Source is done in Visual Studio with C++. –jeroen Filed under:...
View ArticleHow to hang Visual Studio
Simple steps on how to hang visual studio: Debug a piece that throws an uncatched System.Net.WebException (probably works with many more kinds of exceptions) In the “WebException was unhandled by user...
View ArticleMonitoring HTTP Output with Fiddler in .NET HTTP Clients and WCF Proxies –...
Reminder to self: for HttpWebRequest make sure you have your proxy setup correctly. Monitoring HTTP Output with Fiddler in .NET HTTP Clients and WCF Proxies – Rick Strahl’s Web Log. –jeroenFiled under:...
View Articlec# – Is there a library that gets the media type and subtype out of a...
Just asked this on SO: C# – Is there a library that gets the media type and subtype out of a HttpWebResponse/WebResponse ContentType?. Anyone here or at G+ that has a hint? The ContentType property of...
View Article.NET/C#: Ctrl+R+R toggles wrap in Visual Studio.NET 2003 (via: Stack Overflow)
A while ago, I had to do some emergency fixing in Visual Studio .NET 2003 as – despite it is unsupported – a client was still using it. By habit, I tried to rename a variable using the Ctrl+R+R...
View Article.NET remnants of the past: Visual Studio .NET 2003 cannot start debugging as...
Boy, was this Visual Studio .NET 2003 stuff a long time ago. Bumped into this one: --------------------------- Microsoft Development Environment --------------------------- Visual Studio cannot start...
View ArticleTim Anderson on Developing an app on Microsoft Azure: a few quick reflections…
Very nice summary: Developing an app on Microsoft Azure: a few quick reflections…. –jeroenFiled under: .NET, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, C# 6 (Roslyn), Cloud Development, Development, Software...
View ArticleExcessive CPU usage in WheaAttemptPhysicalPageOffline when using Intel HD...
I had some excessive CPU usage (30% on a 4-core system) inside WheaAttemptPhysicalPageOffline when using an Intel HD graphics 2500 GPU. At first I thought I needed to convince IT to update the drivers:...
View Article.NET/C#: Chaning the ForeColor of a ReadOnly/Disabled TextBox (via: Stack...
Once every while you still do WinForms work, and bump into something you hadn’t bumped into before. This time it was trying to set ForeColor = Color.Red on a ReadOnly TextBox for displaying error...
View ArticleTools to generate sample data from regeX expressions (via: Stack Overflow)
Thanks DD59 for posting these interesting links: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa833197.aspx (The Regular Expression Generator; Visual Studio) http://code.google.com/p/xeger/ (Xeger; Java...
View ArticleFavorite Documents extension for Visual Studio 2010 and up
This used to be a great Delphi-only feature that I missed in Visual Studio, but I found the downloadable free extension Favorite Documents extension. It is a by Sergey Vlasov, who has a whole bunch of...
View ArticleRosettaCode: cool way to improve your coding skills
Wow: I feel like having lived under a stone for 8 years, as RosettaCode has been alive since it was founded in 2007 by Mike Mol. The idea is that you solve a task and learn from that, or learn by...
View ArticleMacros are gone since Visual Studio 2012, but an extension brings textual...
This is why I like the extensions in Visual Studio so much: even though recordable macro’s were removed in Visual Studio 11, textual macros (which I used most) are in the Text Macros for Visual Studio...
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