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Neat Visual Studio Test Options

Digging around in Tools > Options today to find the answer to an inquiry I received, I found some stuff I didn’t know existed. If you work with Visual Studio Test Projects, you will want to know about these options. The Test Tools options are found in Tools > Options > Test Tools. Test Execution...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 09-24-2009
Tech·Ed Visual Studio Tips with Sara Ford

While at Tech·Ed this week I had several opportunities to sit down with Sara Ford , including for my new Community Radio podcast. Along the way, I learned a few new tips and tidbits of knowledge about Visual Studio. Cycle Clipboard Ring If you’re like me when using Visual Studio, the last block of text...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 05-17-2009
Removing My Visual Studio Tips and Treats Download

As many of you know, I have a Visual Studio Tips and Treats presentation with over 140 tips. It has been an enormously popular presentation and one that I enjoy presenting. As part of that presentation I offered my eBook of these tips for download from my website. As of today, that download will no longer...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 08-26-2008
Visual Studio: Search Hidden Text

An attendee in my Visual Studio 2008 Tips and Treats session this weekend in Richmond, Virginia brought a new tip to my attention. I've often seen the 'Search Hidden Text' checkbox in the Quick Find dialog (Ctrl+F), but I never paid much attention to it. I remember playing with it once, but...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 04-28-2008
From the Forums: Disappearing Dialog Boxes and Windows

From time to time, folks seem to have issues with dialog boxes or tool windows disappearing. Most often, they are somehow off-screen and therefore unusable. For some dialog windows, the Visual Studio title bar turns gray, indicating the tool window does in fact have focus, it just can't be seen....

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 04-09-2008
Visual Studio: Easily Edit Project Files

In case you aren't aware, project files like .CSPROJ and .VBPROJ are really MSBuild project files, and as such, you can edit them to perform additional tasks, include targets, and more. I have often found myself editing them in Notepad because I believed it was the easiest way. As of today I am using...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 03-16-2008
Adding TFPT to the Visual Studio Command Prompt

I was playing around with work items this afternoon, and wanted to delete a couple that I had been playing around with. You can't delete work items from Team Explorer, but you can using the Team Foundation Power Tools. So I opened the Visual Studio Command Prompt, and typed: C:\Program Files\Microsoft...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 03-01-2008
From the Forums: FXCop 1.35

There have been a number of questions on the MSDN forums about where one might download FXCop version 1.35. It seems that GotDotNet has got up and gone, and that's where FXCop used to live. I found that you can download the FXCop 1.36 BETA from the Microsoft Web site , but 1.35 was nowhere to be...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 02-29-2008
Renaming and Copying Projects and Solutions

A question was posed to me this evening about copying and renaming Visual Studio projects. It is a lengthy enough topic to explain, I thought I better write it down. So here goes: Renaming Projects Step 1: Renaming projects can be an interesting challenge for the uninitiated. It's not quite as simple...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 01-01-2008
Visual Studio – Design-Time Click Annoyance

I have noticed from time to time when working in the Windows Forms designer that clicking back and forth between the designer pane and the properties grid can cause Visual Studio to think you double-clicked on a design item, and therefore create an event handler and switch to the code view. It is certainly...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 01-01-2008

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