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Using a Single Strong Name Key across Multiple Projects

When strongly naming project, the Visual Studio default behavior is to copy the source key file into each and every individual project. This might not be ideal in all cases as you may want to be able to change strong name keys across all the projects at a future time. Fortunately, there is a workaround...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 07-10-2008
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
Happy Visual Studio Birthday

On November 10, 1775, an act of the Continental Congress declared "That two Battalions of Marines be raised…". Today they are known as the Marine Corps, and every November 10 th the Marine Corps celebrates their Marine birthday with a reading from the Marine Corps manual, a birthday message...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 03-18-2008
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
From the Forums: Add Reference and the GAC

It is a very popular misconception that adding an assembly to the GAC will enable it to show up in a project's Add Reference dialog in Visual Studio. Unfortunately, and to the chagrin of many, this is not true. This myth is perpetuated every time we install a third party component or library, it...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 02-29-2008
Visual Studio Tools and Add-Ins

Thanks to everyone who attended my session at the Philly .NET Code Camp 2008.1. Here is a list of the tools I covered: Microsoft Tools Visual Studio SDK http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=30402623-93ca-479a-867c-04dc45164f5b&displaylang=en The Visual Studio SDK is the mothership...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 01-15-2008
Extending Outlook with VSTO SE

The Everywhere Platform Other than Windows and its default applications such as Notepad and Internet Explorer, what one piece of software is on more desktops than any other? In most companies, the president, sales staff, support staff, office manager, and sometimes even the janitor have Microsoft Outlook...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 01-15-2008
Designing Windows Forms with Abstract Inheritance

I got sick of Notepad a couple weeks ago, and set about to build a Notepad-like application with a couple sorely missing features like reload prompting, multiple undo levels, tabs, line numbers, more robust find and replace, recent files list, opacity, etc. It's a cool little project, titled DevNotepad...

Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 01-05-2008
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

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