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Need to research when build.force files are generated
It’s not reproducible yet, so I need to find out why under some rare circumstances, devenv.exe (the Visual Studio IDE) generated build.force files. Sometimes the build then fails, most of the times it...
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c# – TFS Code Reviews – Show updated files in response to comments – Stack...
Nice steps here: c# – TFS Code Reviews – Show updated files in response to comments – Stack Overflow. What’s missing here is that you now loose your history within the shelve-set. That makes it harder...
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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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Threading in C# – Free E-book
Still a great book. I love the chapter Threading in C# – Free E-book which you also can get as a PDF download. It’s a chapter from C# 56/5/… in a Nutshell by Joseph Albahari. Great book! –jeroenFiled...
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winforms – Where is the Tab Order Assignment dialog in Visual Studio 2012+? –...
Duh: same for VS2013 It is still available, you just need to add it back to the View menu. Tools + Customize, Commands tab, Menu bar = View. Select the menu item in Controls where you want to insert...
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Fix for Visual Studio – Resharper Alt Enter not working – Stack Overflow
Thanks User Josh Close – Stack Overflow. for answering the below on Stack Overflow: it got my Resharper Alt-Enter key workign again. Re-apply Visual Studio keyboard scheme: (VS2013 latest ReSharper)...
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Get a Windows 10 development environment – Windows app development
When you own the full stack: virtual machine (Build 201602) These installs contain: Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation, Version 1511 Visual Studio 2015 Community Update 1 Windows developer SDK and tools...
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Sometimes it is Visual Studio’s fault: failure to copy file in a post build...
Not sure yet why, but every now and then I get a failure like this in Visual Studio (at least in 2013 and up): 2>C:\Program Files...
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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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