Today I was thinking about using a ClickOnce application in my build process. The problem is, when using an installed ClickOnce application (as opposed to a...
If you’ve downloaded the new VS 11 Beta and done any merging, then you’ve probably seen the new diff and merge tools built into VS 11. They are awesome, and ...
Hey everyone, I just discovered this great post yesterday that shows how to have msbuild build projects in parallel :-).
Arrggghhhh TFS and builds! Such a love-hate relationship! So we have our TFS builds setup to both compile our C# projects as well as compile and deploy our T...
I watched an awesome Channel 9 Visual Studio Tips And Tricks video, so I thought I’d share. Some great VS gems in there. Even a few Windows 7 ones, like usin...
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 ...
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...
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...
Just found a few websites that show some Visual Studio tips that I haven’t seen before, so I thought I’d share:
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:
So if you are trying to set focus to a WPF element, but are unable to. Here is a quick checklist to go through:
A list of some shortcuts and new features to VS 2010 and C# 4.0: