Sweet C# Gems
James Michael Hare has a lot of awesome C# and .Net related posts, so this is just a little shout out to him (and my own little way of bookmarking his blogs ...
Recent Posts
Using TFS Programmatically
I recently discovered this post which shows how you can programmatically update queries in TFS, which is great for when you make a WIT (Work Item Template) c...
TFS Power Tools Features And How To Run Them From Visual Studio
There are a few great features in the TFS Power Tools that I wasn’t aware of, such as TreeDiff which let’s you compare folders (or even entire branches) to s...
Visual Studio Tips and Tricks
Just found a few websites that show some Visual Studio tips that I haven’t seen before, so I thought I’d share:
Making solutions with lots of projects load and build faster in Visual Studio
I came across this great article which talks about simply unloading projects from a solution to make the solution load and build faster in Visual Studio. Thi...
Setting up keyboard shortcuts to build solutions in MSBuild
One of the greatest benefits of building your solution flies in MSBuild (vs in Visual Studio directly) is that it doesn’t lock up the Visual Studio UI, which...
Automatically deploying TFS Checkin Policies to the entire team
I stumbled across this great post showing how you can use the TFS Power Tools to automatically deploy your custom TFS check-in policies to everyone on your t...
Awesome VS 2010 extensions I can’t live without
With the ability to extend Visual Studio 2010, lots of great extensions have popped up. These not only increase productivity, but make the whole coding exper...
Friendly Visual Studio solution names for working with multiple branches
If you have the latest version of the Visual Studio 2010 extension VSCommands you can give your solutions friendly names that display in the window’s title b...
TFS GoToWorkItem VS command and keyboard shortcut
The button to jump directly to a work item by specifying its ID looks to be on the Work Item Tracking toolbar by default in VS / TFS 2010. This button is not...
Solution won’t build on TFS Build Server
If you are able to build (compile) the solution on your local machine, but it won’t build on the TFS build server and you are getting an error message simila...
Adding ValueChanged events to Dependency Objects in WPF
You may be wondering which is the best way to hookup a DependencyProperty’s Callback event handler to handle Value Changed events. The two methods to conside...
My WPF Binding won’t work. WTF!
At one point or another I’m sure we’ve all been confused as to why our binding won’t work. Here’s a couple things to keep in mind:
Setting focus to an element in WPF
So if you are trying to set focus to a WPF element, but are unable to. Here is a quick checklist to go through:
Some Visual Studio 2010 Shortcuts and C# 4.0 Cool Stuff
A list of some shortcuts and new features to VS 2010 and C# 4.0: