If there is one book I am looking forward to, it is Microsoft Visual Studio Tips by Sara Ford . I am a regular reader of Sara’s blog and I have learned a lot about Visual Studio by reading her blog. Her tips are simple, lightweight but above all very++ useful.
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While working, you will always find two things running on my machine. One is without any doubt Visual Studio and second is MSDN Library. Since this morning after installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 I’ve been trying to get my hands on the latest MSDN Library. Thanks to Iftekhar who pointed me to the [...]
Yippeee! SP1 for .Net 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 has been released. This service pack includes ADO.NET Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services. There are WPF designer improvements and WPF performance improvements. You can find more details and download link here.
Finally I can now install SQL Server 2008 without disturbing the apple cart [...]
While there is a lot of talk about refactoring tools such as Resharper and Refactor Pro, not much is said about refactoring features available in Visual Studio 2008 straight out of the box. I think Resharper and Refactor Pro are fantastic tools but they cost money and most of the time our refactoring needs are [...]
Go to Tools –> Options –> Text Editor –> All Languages and check Line numbers checkbox.
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Event Log is a central place to log application events. These events can be errors, warnings or just information. Each event log entry in Windows Vista has a level of event, date and time the event occurred, source of event, an event Id and a task category. While event logs such as Application, System, Security [...]
Visual Studio 2008 comes with an Image Library which contains thousands of icons, animations and images which you can use in your applications. You can find the Image Library at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\1033
Just unzip VS2008ImageLibrary.zip file located at this location and you have most of the graphics used by Microsoft in [...]
Visual Studio can be extended by using Addins. There already are many useful addins available. Some developed by Microsoft and many by Third Party vendors. Visual Studio Gallery is one place where you can find pretty much every addin and control library available. Some of my favourite are:
GhostDoc Resharper AQtime CodeRush [...]
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