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Thanks Philly.NET!

Tonight I had the honor of representing my employer, RDA Corporation, at the Philly .NET user group. My presentation, titled 'Visual Studio 2005 Tips and Treats', was a huge success. I was amazed at the 'wows' I heard coming from the audience. People really seemed to enjoy learning cool new tricks that they can apply immediately. The audience themselves were fantastic too – it was a very conversational presentation. I was even taught a few new tricks which I will incorporate into the e-Book when I get a chance.

As promised, you can download the draft of the e-Book here. Included in the Bonus folder are the Visual Studio 2005 Automation Object Model chart, and the VB and C# keyboard mapping posters. I will make the sample add-in available at a later date once I work out a few bugs, and make it more deployment friendly. Note, it is just a draft. I was weighing between finishing it, or letting you peruse through it and letting me update it as we go. I chose the latter.

Thanks again! Philly.NET rocks!

Comments

October 19, 2007 11:00 AM

Great presentation!  Thanks for the e-book.

Elena Lawrence
 

October 24, 2007 8:20 AM

Great Presentation, thanks! Two addtional tips, or addendums to existing tips.

1. Instead of turning off the start page, you can actually change the RSS feed that is used on the start page, since that it all that it is. If you replace it with a custom RSS feed, you can use it to publish or communicate information out to your development team. (Don't know why I never thought of that before!)

2. Here is what I have setup in a batch to clear my VS file and project list (I review a lot of apps, so it gets cluttered up reguraly)

ClearVS.cmd:

regedit -s VS2005FileMRUDelete.reg

regedit -s VS2005ProjectMRUDelete.reg

regedit -s VS2005FileMRUAdd.reg

regedit -s VS2005ProjectMRUAdd.reg

I find it is easier to simply delete and re-add the key like this:

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList]

and

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList]

as an example. Putting the dash in front of the key deletes it.

Stephen Heverin
 

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Steve Andrews has been working as a developer for more than 8 years. During this time, he has designed and developed applications in such widely varying areas as trust accounting, medical information management, supply chain management, and retail systems. He has firsthand developer experience with a variety of languages, including Java, VB, and .NET. Most recently, he has been immersed in SharePoint. He is currently employed at RDA Corporation in Philadelphia, PA, as a Software Engineer and a team member in the Architectural Guidance evangelism team. Steve is also an MTCS (x2), ICSOO, and .NET fanatic.
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