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Monday, April 28, 2008 12:24 PM

DevConnections Spring Slides and Demos

Last week I gave three presentations at the DevConnections spring show in Orlando. I received a lot of great feedback from attendees which I definitely appreciate, especially since I was feeling a little bit bad about having run out of time in my first
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:26 PM

Extract Control for ASP.NET in Visual Studio

I've been posting about some feature requests for ASP.NET/ Visual Studio , so here's one more in that thread. One nice feature of Blend is the ability to select a chunk of XAML and choose to "Extract User Control". The result works very nicely, creating
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:12 PM

Refactor Request

Not sure if it's already there, but the folks at DevExpress or JetBrains (or Microsoft, but I don't want to wait for another VS) should have a refactoring for CodeRush/Refactor! or Resharper that will convert verbose properties into C# 3.5 short properties,
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Friday, March 21, 2008 4:14 PM

SQL 2005 Tools Install Experience is the suck

Just finished building a couple of ultimate developer rig machines for the office for Brendan and me, and was adding software today. So I installed Office, Visual Studio 2008, and then SQL Server 2005. I'd forgotten that installing SQL 2005 client
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:35 AM

Visual Studio Shortcuts

I was doing a bunch of Silverlight last night on a new machine and once again set up my shortcut to basically arrow left in order to let me type in attributes without taking my fingers off of the keyboard and go hunting for arrow keys. I described this
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:14 AM

Continuous Integration Setup with MSTest

I'm working with a client this week to set up Continuous Integration for their development environment. They're a small shop who are using Visual Studio 2008 Professional, and don't intend to upgrade to Team Suite or Team Edition any time soon. The build
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Sunday, March 16, 2008 4:24 PM

Three Requests for ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010

I have three things that have been on my wish list for ASP.NET and/or Visual Studio that I'm curious to know what others think. I've mentioned some of these before on my blog or elsewhere - they're not exactly earth shattering and I'm not saying that
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:05 PM

Finding Untitled Page Titles

Sadly, Microsoft decided that with the addition of the Title attribute on the @Page directive, it would make sense to include it by default with some text that one would absolutely never want to use as the title, "Untitled Page". They could
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Monday, January 28, 2008 2:12 AM

ResXFileCodeGeneratorEx and Visual Studio 2008

A couple of months ago I found a great Extended Strongly Typed Resource Generator that would let me use Resource files in shared libraries ( Brendan blogged about it and set it up ). The default resource generator in Visual Studio generates code that
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Sunday, January 27, 2008 11:41 PM

Web Deployment Projects for 2008

Web Deployment Projects (WDP) for Visual Studio 2008 were released to the web (RTW) a couple of days ago. These didn't make the November ship date of VS2008, but were promised to follow shortly after release, and as promised, they're here! I haven't looked
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 1:08 AM

TFS Tips

I'm just wrapping up a long article on Team System 2008 and its new capabilities, especially its continuous integration support and build server improvements. In the course of researching for this article, I found a couple of tips that didn't really fit
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Monday, January 14, 2008 6:22 PM

Visual Studio XAML Editing Tip

So I'm working in XAML in Visual Studio 2008 and it has some nice statement completion features now, like automatically quoting my attributes for me (cool!). When there's an item it knows, like Orientation="Horizontal|Vertical" it will give me a dropdown
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Saturday, December 01, 2007 7:09 PM

Web Deployment Projects for VS2008

Yesterday, Microsoft released a CTP for Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2008 . I don't use these in my own projects, having built a robust system that revolves around CruiseControl.NET and PyroBatchFTP, but it sounds like they have fixed some
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:46 PM

Learn VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Guy pointed out a great resource for learning the newly released Visual Studio 2008 for free: the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit , from Microsoft. To quote the site: The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes
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Monday, November 19, 2007 10:18 AM

Visual Studio Team Suite 2008 Available

Visual Studio Team Suite 2008 is now available to MSDN Subscribers (a fact which is apparently well known, since the server seems to be suffering from the load). Anyway, when the load on the servers reaches an equilibrium, you should be able to pick up
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