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10 Visual Studio Shortcuts You Must Know

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:31:02 GMT

A great list of 10 Visual Studio Shortcuts any software developer must know and use.

Most Useful 20+ Visual Studio A

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:16:03 GMT

I have collected list of the Visual Studio Add-ins, most of which are open source or free. I hope this list will help you to code more faster and effective. If there is not your favorite add-in in the below list, do not hesitate to add it as a comment.

Copy&Paste references Addin

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:46:01 GMT

An VS Studio Addin to copy ressources from one project via copy&paste.

Essential resources for all .net developers

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:46:02 GMT

Lots of useful resources for .net developers

Visual Studio SP1 Update for Vista Final

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:46:02 GMT

The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista addresses areas of Visual Studio impacted by Windows Vista enhancements. Download the final version (direct link to MS Downloads).

Screen shots of Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 4.0 (Direct Link)

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:09:15 GMT

The Visual Studio 2005 Software Development Kit (SDK) version 4.0 is now available for download. Here are some screen shots of the new UI that comes with it.

Hidden VS 2005 Feature: Line Count

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:44:33 GMT

I noticed that the "Ln" counter in Visual Studio 2005 counts up when you build a solution or project. I'm speculating this is lines of code compiled, but maybe someone knows what this actually does (nothing in the docs, search results, or blogosphere)...

Object Test Bench

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:01:02 GMT

There is a tool in Visual Studio called the Object Test Bench. In this article I present an overview of its features and compare it to the Immediate Window which in my opinion almost always does the job better and faster.

New For VS2005 - Abstract Stub Generation

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:01:01 GMT

Visual Studio 2005 includes a new feature to generate stubs for methods in an abstract base class. Here's an example of how it works.

Visual Studio 2005 automatically removes deleted solution items

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:31:01 GMT

Gotcha! Deleting or renaming a file that is included in a VS 2005 solution as a "solution item" will cause VS to remove the item from the solution. Ouch!

Refactoring Competition

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:31:01 GMT

Bill McCafferty is running a weekly competition with a prize of a book and CodeIt.Once Refactoring tool 3-User license pack! Check it out,code away and win.

In depth look at ASP.NET Compilation

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:31:01 GMT

This article is an excellent discussion of how compilation and deployment works in ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0. It explains the Web Deployment Projects and Web Application Projects add-ins that Microsoft has provided and gives a great overview of what's happening behind the scenes in Visual Studio.

Snippets 'n XML

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:01:03 GMT

There is an extensive collection of nearly 300 Visual Studio 2005 C# snippets available for download. In this post I'll take a look at these snippets, and show how you can use simple XML syntax to parse the raw code that lies behind the snippets. The code used in this program can be downloaded and run in Visual Studio 2005.

Exporting and importing Visual Studio 2005 settings

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:31:01 GMT

Exporting and importing settings in Visual Studio 2005

Stop Console Applications From Closing Immediately

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 04:18:13 GMT

When you develop your first console application, it can be a surprise when you execute your application in debug mode and find that the console closes before you have time to see the results.

Turn Off Visual Studio 2005 Snap Lines

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 04:16:57 GMT

Visual Studio 2005 introduced the concept of snap lines to assist in positioning Windows Forms elements. For those who preferred to use the Visual Studio 2003 snap to grid layout style, snap lines can be disabled.

Turn On Visual Studio 2005 Line Numbering

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:04:36 GMT

Many developer assistance tools, such as Microsoft's 'FxCop' refer to line numbers within source code. Though Visual Studio shows the current line number at all times, finding a referenced line is much easier when source code line numbering is enabled.

Set Next Statement

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:58:58 GMT

A look at the Set Next Statement portion of Edit and Continue feature in Visual Studio. This is the technology that lets you move the instruction pointer around when running your code. It allows you to hit a break point in a method, change your code on the fly, and then rerun the portion of your code that changed.

Creating Visual Studio Project Templates

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:01:02 GMT

Often, developers perform the same repetitive operations when creating a new Visual Studio project. They frequently find themselves adding the same references and sometimes the same project items to their projects. Sometimes, developers even add more or less identical "framework" code (that is, code that performs essential operations, such as instantiating top-level objects found in an application object model). When these repetitive operations involve adding references or otherwise empty project items, they are just mildly annoying and inefficient. When they require adding repetitive code, they often become irritating and, depending on how the repetitive code is generated, error-prone as well. However, Visual Studio 2005 offers a solution to the inefficiencies of creating largely identical projects: custom project and item templates, supplemented by wizards, can automate the process of project creation and eliminate the need for developers to add the same references, the same project items, or even largely identical code to new projects.

IIS7, ASP.NET 2.0, Atlas and VS 2005 End to End Talk

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:31:02 GMT

ScottGu provides some slides and code from and end-to-end talk that he recently gave in New Zealand

Why not on by default!? Turn on auto HTML attribute quotes in 2005

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:01:02 GMT

Holy cow! Why wasn't this on by default??? How annoying is it that when typing in the HTML Source editor window Visual Studio doesn't add the "" for you automatically... well guess what? It's a setting.

Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 Service Pack 1

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:18:58 GMT

Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 Service Pack 1 is released to the masses, go get it!

TIP: Try right clicking on the filetabs in VS 2005

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:31:01 GMT

This is a nice little tip and one that I use all the time.

How to open a website in Visual Studio 2005 from the command line

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:01:05 GMT

've seen several queries asking how to launch Visual Studio 2005 opening a specific folder as a website from the command line. Unfortunately Visual Studio 2005 does not support this by default but you can enable the scenario by writing a macro.