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Connecting Visual Studio 2010 to TFS over a Corporate Proxy (via: Visual...
One of the clients has tightened up their web proxy so much that Visual Studio 2010 does not want to connect to the HTTP 8080 port on the external TFS server (yes, I will switch to HTTPS if the...
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Visual Studio – How to: Reset Your Settings
There are features you rarely use. I once screwed up my Visual Studio desktop. Resetting to the default is easy, if you remember it is in the import/export settings dialog, which I didn’t (: This is...
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.NET/Visual Studio: disable “Step over properties and operators”– one of the...
Boy I wish Visual Studio had a “Step into first property or operator” command. You can only do this through the context menu, and that is awfully cumbersome to use. Just look at the context menu at the...
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Clearing the CodeRush SolutionCache directory from your roaming profile...
Your CodeRush SolutionCache folder (which is in your roaming profile, how bad!) can grow to multi-gigabyte proportions as it is not auto-cleaned. This can lead to very long times for doing logon/logoff...
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Great session on how to prevent SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies
A few weeks ago, Bill Karwin did a must watch webinar on the prevention SQL Injection titled “SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies“. Bill Karwin (twitter, new blog, old blog, Amazon) is famous for much...
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registry editing: How do you clear your MRU list in Visual Studio? – Stack...
A question like How do you clear your MRU list in Visual Studio? is why I still like Stack Overflow. The answers explain how to solve this in a version neutral way, including other MRU lists, and as a...
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Solving the “Some projects have been bound to server locations that may be...
A while ago, I inherited a bunch of C# and VB.NET projects. One of them always generated the below error when including it in Team Foundation System (yes, the original projects were salvaged from...
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Many more event videos available at Channel 9 (was: PDC10 – view Microsoft...
Dang; I thought this had long left the posting queue, but somehow it ended in the drafts (: Since then, many more event videos made it to Channel 9, including Build 2011, and TechDays 2012. Anyway,...
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VS2010 Workfold Command: allows moving a local working folder for a...
Just found a glitch in the unmap support for tf workfold (and found out it has already been reported). First what I tried to do: move D:\develop.TFS02 into D:\develop\CodePlex\TFS02 using tf map (which...
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If a program you wrote can’t start becuase MSVCR*.dll is missing, then you...
Too often I see quesions like the one below on software that people distribute: The Program can’t start becuase MSVCR100.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this...
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Creating a blank Visual Studio solution without a directory, and sln Format...
A while ago, I blew quite a few Visual Studio Solution and Project builds because I was experimenting in a suite of solutions with the Configuration Manager adding other Solution Configurations than...
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“tfpt treeclean /exclude:*.suo,*.user” is what I use most (and recommend this...
This post describes the TFS workspace cleanup features Treeclean and Scorch. Both are not in the Visual Studio UI nor TFS tool, but are available form the ftpt command from the optional Team Foundation...
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Make Selection Uppercase or Lowercase – The Ultimate Visual Studio Tips and...
How Upper Lower Comment Keyboard CTRL + SHIFT + U CTRL + U Menu Edit -> Advanced -> Make Uppercase Edit -> Advanced -> Make Lowercase Command Edit.MakeUppercase Edit.MakeLowercase Versions...
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How to view build log in VS2010?
Sometimes you search for Visual Studio functionality that you use every couple of years to pin down something nasty: The HTML build log output. And after searching for a long time, then nasty surprise...
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Interesting: Visual Studio Project Renamer | ComVisible
Over the course of development time, each suite of projects is bound to get some renames. Doing that from the Visual Studio IDE is a pain, so I was glad to find Visual Studio Project Renamer by...
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.NET/C# LINQ gem: How to check if a char in a list of characters (via Stack...
Often when comparing characters with a list of characters, that list does not consist of consts. It if were, you could make a switch statement: switch (item) { case '/': case '\\': case ';':...
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The unknown beauty of shared projects in .NETGeert van Horrik
Interesting: Shared Projects Shared Projects are a new feature of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. It was initially created to support universal apps apps for both Windows Phone RT and Windows RT, and...
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As of Visual Studio 2012, the option “Find Shelveset” is hard to find – via:...
Shelving work into a shelveset is easy in Visual Studio. Until Visual Studio 2010 it was easy to find the shelveset. As of Visual Studio 2012 this is much more difficult. To get the shelveset back in...
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Syntax highlighting
Visual Studio 2013 syntax highlighting: watch the closing curly brace. Console.WriteLine(“URL IS : http://localhost/:{0}”, portnumber); –jeroen Filed under: .NET, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0,...
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Visual Studio: Zoom Out when ReSharper has captured Ctrl+Shift+,
ReSharper has a whole set of nice keyboard shortcuts, which includes Ctrl + Shift + , for View Recent Edits. This overwrites the Zoom Out half of the default Visual Studio zoom keyboard shortcuts...
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