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.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 download and troubleshooting links

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:03:29 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.msdn.com

.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 download and troubleshooting links

SP1 download links

Tags: programming, .net, 2008

PhillyNJ.NET: Free CodeRush / Refactor! at every meeting!

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:20:53 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde
clipper's remarks: What a great gift from the folks at DevExpress!

Clip Source: www.phillynj.net

Free CodeRush / Refactor! at every meeting!

The fine folks at DevExpress have agreed to allow our group to give away one FREE license to CodeRush and Refactor! at every meeting! This is a truly great developer tool and enhancement for your Visual Studio IDE.

They would like me to mention this link where you can download free controls, and they have provided the following sales blurb:

Tags: programming, .net

RockScroll - Turning your Visual Studio scrollbar in a thumbnail of your code

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:45:48 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde

Clip Source: coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com

RockScroll - Turning your Visual Studio scrollbar in a thumbnail of your code

The basic (as in "only") idea is that RockScroll extends the scrollbar in Visual Studio to show a syntax highlighted thumbnail view of your source. This is really useful for those excessively long source code files you know you have. It's just one DLL and you can turn it off from Tools|AddIns just by un-checking the checkbox.

Also a VERY cool feature is that if you highlight a reference in your code (you double click on a variable for example), RockScroll will highlight all its instances. See the red highlighting below...

Other features the indications of breakpoints, bookmarks on right side and recent edits on the left size.

All in all a very cool and interesting way of extending Visual Studio...

Tags: programming, .net, visual studio

CopySourceAsHtml on VPC

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:24:34 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.msdn.com

Copy Source As Html (CopySourceAsHtml) on VPC

I've been using Copy Source As Html (CopySourceAsHtml) for Visual Studio 2008 RTM for a while, but recently tried to work with it on a Virtual PC (VPC). When I tried copying a code snippet to the clipboard I ran into an exception: "Requested Clipboard operation did not succeed."

I found the code that I had to change in Mike Glaser's Blog, but to make thinks a little shorter:

1. Download this ZIP file that contains the add in.

2. Extract it to the following folders:

Vista:
- C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Addins
XP:
- C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Addins
- C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Addins

Enjoy!

Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:54 PM by bursteg

Filed under: Visual Studio 2008, Addins

Tags: programming, .net, 2008, vpc

T4: Microsoft Codesmith? OMG!

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:14:55 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde
clipper's remarks: How did I not know about this?

Clip Source: www.olegsych.com

Text Template Transformation Toolkit

Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) is a template-based code generation engine. It is included with Visual Studio 2008 and available as a download for Visual Studio 2005 in DSL and GAT toolkits. You can use T4 templates to generate Visual Basic, C#, T-SQL, XML or any other text files.

<#@ template language="C#" #>
Hello
<# Write("World!") #>

Tags: programming, .net

Code Project Browser Add-in Updated to Support VS 2008

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:43:55 GMT

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Clip Source: coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com

Code Project Browser Add-in Updated to Support VS 2008

I also love convenience, and that's why I made this add-in. It lets you browse The Code Project directly in Visual Studio 2005 or 2008. When you click on a link that would normally download a zip file, it asks you instead if you'd like to open the sample up using The Code Project Browser. If you say yes, the add-in will download the file, unzip it to a base My Documents\My Code Project Samples directory, then load it directly. It also provides a sidebar where you can view, reload and delete all of the projects you've downloaded.

(via WindowsClient.Net - The Code Project Browser Add-in for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008)

Tags: programming, visual studio, 2008, .net

PowerCommands for VS 2008 v1.1 Released

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:42:54 GMT

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Clip Source: coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com

PowerCommands for VS 2008 v1.1 Released

"What’s New in PowerCommands 1.1

Enable/Disable PowerCommands in Options dialog

Format document on save / Remove and Sort Usings on save

The Remove and sort usings option removes unused using statements and sorts the remaining using statements in the document being saved.

Clear All Panes

Copy Path

Email CodeSnippet

Insert Guid Attribute

Show All Files

Undo Close

Tags: programming, .net, visual studio, 2008

CSLA .NET version 3.5 is now available

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:53:15 GMT

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Clip Source: www.lhotka.net

CSLA .NET version 3.5 is now available

CSLA .NET version 3.5 for .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 is now available for download from www.lhotka.net/cslanet/download.aspx. This version of CSLA .NET includes support for LINQ and provides substantial code reduction (often around 40%) when coding your business objects.

If you are using .NET 2.0 or 3.0 with Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 then you'll want to use CSLA .NET version 3.0.4. Version 3.0.4 includes some data binding bug fixes over version 3.0.3, and it works with .NET 2.0 or .NET 3.0. It is also available from the download page.

Tags: programming, .net, csla

SubSort the VS.NET Task/Error Lists

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:12:23 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde
clipper's remarks: Nice

Clip Source: blogs.msdn.com

Did you know... You can do multi-column sorting (secondary sort, etc.) in both the Error List and Task List - #183

Both the Error List and the Task List have support for multi-column sorting, like secondary sort (and can someone remind me what's the term for 3rd-ary - the term that comes after secondary).

To do a secondary sort

Click on the column that you wish to have as primary sort (like File)

Shift+Click on the next column you wish to have as secondary sort (like Line Number)

Rinse and Repeat for other columns

For the Task List, you can see how things are sorted first by File, then by Line number.

Same for the Error List

Tags: programming, .net, visual studio

Visual Studio: Easily Edit Project Files

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:23:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Another great post by a guy I actually know

Clip Source: www.platinumbay.com

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 Notepad no more, at least for editing project files.

This is because you can work with project files directly in Visual Studio without closing your project, and with full IntelliSense and syntax highlighting. Simply right-click the project node in the Solution Explorer tool window and select Unload Project. Then right-click on the project file again, and select Edit [Project Name]. You can now edit the project file with full Visual Studio editor window support.

When you are done editing the project file, right-click on the project node and choose the Reload Project command.

Simple, eh?

A Blog worth Mentioning: alik levin's

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:31:58 GMT

clipped by: travislaborde
clipper's remarks: It's not often I find a new blog with so much content that I wonder how I never knew about it before, but this one is worth sharing.

I've clipped just the titles of a few of the articles on the front page that caught my eye.

Clip Source: blogs.msdn.com

alik levin's

Security, Performance, and Operations For .Net Developers - State Of The Practice

Stress Test ASP.NET Web Application With Free WCAT Tool

Performance Sin - Using Exceptions To Control Flow

Security Code Review – Use Visual Studio Bookmarks To Capture Security Findings

Performance Code Review Tool – Practices Checker

Design For Operations [DFO] – Problems And Solution Frame

Chain Of Responsibility Design Pattern – Focus On Security, Performance, And Operations

How To Keep ASP.NET ViewState On The Server – Revised

Tags: programming, blogs

PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:17:15 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.msdn.com

PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 released

PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 is now available for free download, along with source code and a readme document. PowerCommands, is a set of useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2008 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE.

Tags: programming, .net, 2008

Visual Studio 2008 Hotfix Available

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:01:41 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.msdn.com

Issues that are fixed: We have fixed several bugs in this hotfix. All bug fixes are listed below.

HTML Source view performance

Design view performance

HTML editing

JavaScript editing

Web Site build performance

Tags: programming, .net, 2008

Intellisense for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:05:05 GMT

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Clip Source: brennan.offwhite.net

Intellisense for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008

These days I write JavaScript than C#, or at least it seems like it sometime. To make my work a little easier I have started using the JavaScript support in Visual Studio 2008 that provides Intellisense support if you put Xml Doc into your JavaScript. The problem with working with jQuery in Visual Studio 2008 is that it happens fail due to how the jQuery script is written. For reasons why Intellisense fails, you can read more from Jeff King. Adjusting jQuery to make Visual Studio happy is not really a priority and not even necessary. I can simply reference the real jQuery script from the web pages and within my scripts I can reference a stub for jQuery that is simply a shell with Xml Doc.

I copied the documentation right from the jQuery website and put it all into the following stub named jquery.intellisense.js, shown below:

Tags: programming, javascript, jquery, asp.net, 2008

Tip: Try this to make a VS 2005 add-in work with VS 2008

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:08:01 GMT

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Clip Source: geekswithblogs.net

Tip: Try this to make a VS 2005 add-in work with VS 2008

Most simple Visual Studio 2005 add-ins could actually work with Visual Studio 2008. I'm not talking about huge add-ins like Resharper here, but most of the small utilities we find online. If you really want to keep using your add-in, and it doesn't provide a VS 2008 version yet, and you didn't have VS 2005 installed on the machine when you installed VS 2008 (as it tries to migrate the add-in when you install it in presence of VS 2005), there's is something very simple you can try that can work for many VS2005 add-in.

Disclaimer: Of course I have to repeat: This should work with many VS add-ins, but it will not work with all of them.

Tags: programming, .net, 2008