Even though Visual Studio 2008 has been released for over a year and 2010 is already in CTP, there is still quite a bit of development that happens on Visual Studio 2005. Most developers know ...
Visual Studio, by default, displays a splash screen at startup. The splash screen displays branding information for Visual Studio and also includes information (if supplied) for all packages installed.
This information can take time to display ...
For those of you that have downloaded the Visual Studio 2010 CTP, you might have noticed that it will expire within a few days. The fix for this is simple and Jeff Beehler has a ...
This is a quick tip that I only noticed recently. Visual Studio has the ability to save the contents in the Find Results tool window to a file. When the Find Results tool window has ...
On the MSDN forums, I see many questions on how to reset either the menus or the visible commands in Visual Studio. A related issue I see quite a bit is how to correct problems ...
When developing Visual Studio Add-Ins, one of the first handy tips you will need is /ResetAddin. The syntax goes like this:
devenv.exe /ResetAddin <namespace.addinclass>
This command will remove all registered commands for a VS add-in and will ...
There are a few hidden gems in Visual Studio that are easy to overlook. One of those is the Code Definition Window (ctrl+\,ctrl+d or View – Code Definition Window).
The Code Definition Window will work in ...
If you are like me, the wizards provided by Visual Studio usually get ignored shortly after you learn the details of developing a given project type. The downside of that is that I might be ...
A few months ago, I posted an article on my blog explaining Versioning Multiple Assemblies by changing one partial AssemblyInfo file.
Periodically, I get email asking how to add an existing file without having Visual Studio ...
One thing that has constantly annoyed me with SQL Server Management Studio is the My Projects folder (which is often the default folder when opening or saving files) is set to \My Documents\SQL Server Management ...
Picky about your code? Visual Studio 2005 is going to make you very happy then (as long as you use C#, but then again that’s the only way to be really happy anyway). You can ...
tack trace messages in the debugger’s Autos window can be too long to effectively view, even when using the flyover popup. Worse yet, you can’t copy and paste errors displayed – rather aggrivating when you’re ...
