The Platform Target is an often overlooked option in the build configuration for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 projects. For C# projects, you will find this option on the Project Properties dialog under the build ...
I’m a keyboard junkie, perhaps a remnant left over from using Vim and Emacs-variants in my early days of programming. I dislike having to move over to the trackball to accomplish something, simply because it ...
Visual Studio’s a great development environment, but out of the box it’s not the greatest thing for displaying code to an audience via an overhead projector. It doesn’t matter if you’re giving a presentation to ...
While the Visual Studio build process is familiar for all .NET developers, not everyone realizes the build customization capabilities that can be accomplished with just a little work. You can easily put together tasks that ...
In my previous column Optimize Visual Studio for Presentations, I mentioned altering font size in text editor windows to improve readability for presentations.
Readable text in the editor window is critical to a good presentation, but ...
Leaders in our software development industry are incredibly productive for a number of reasons, one of which is their intimate familiarity with the ins and outs of the tools they use. This article is the ...
Debugging is a skill with several learning plateaus. Anyone can fire up the debugger in Visual Studio, set a few breakpoints, and step through various code modules while using watches. The climb up to next ...
I’ve written an earlier article here about using the keyboard to navigate around Visual Studio. I’m a nut for not having to move my hands to grab the mouse for tasks which could be done ...
Visual Studio 2005 includes a huge amount of new functionality ranging from code snippets to refactoring. But does it get everything done that everyone wants? Of course not. As Steven Wright says, “You can’t have ...
