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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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Dear fellow programmer. If you aren’t experienced doing multi-threading,...
Recently I was asked to investigate a performance problem with a certain .NET application. The first error I got when getting the app to build in Visual Studio 2010, and then run it was like this:...
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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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License for MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO COMMUNITY 2015 (which includes Xamarin use)
Wow, Microsoft has come a long way: MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO COMMUNITY 2015 These license terms are an agreement between Microsoft Corporation (or based on where you live, one of its affiliates) and...
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Team Explorer: undocking “Pending Changes” and “Build” views – via: Team...
Cool, wish I had known this a few years ago (: You can now undock the Pending Changes and Builds views and position them anywhere within the workbench window. Both views also now appear under Window...
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