Visual Studio is a pretty big product and will take over 30GB of disk space after installation
Source: Visual Studio Frequently Asked Questions
LOL. It’s about half the size of recent Delphi versions.
–jeroen
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Visual Studio 2015 Frequently Asked Questions – install size
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/14
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Annoying: Visual Studio 2010+ by default open XSD files in a Designer view
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/14
It is pretty easy to switch from the XSD Designer to the Code view: c# – Viewing XSD as code – Stack Overflow.
But I got a bit fed up of doing this each and every time after opening an XSD file in Visual Studio.
It turns out there is a default for that which is a bit hidden away: in the File Open dialog. There,
right click on an XSD file, choose “Open with…” and select the appropriate option – then click on “Set as Default” before you actually open it.
via Stop Visual Studio 2010 opening XSDs in design mode – Stack Overflow.
–jeroen
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Team Explorer: undocking “Pending Changes” and “Build” views – via: Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 is Available – Brian Harry’s blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/13
Cool, wish I had known this a few years ago (:
You can now undock the Pending Changes and Builds views and position them anywhere within the workbench window. Both views also now appear under Window > Show View, which makes it possible to add these views to another perspective.
–jeroen
via Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 is Available – Brian Harry’s blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
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License for MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO COMMUNITY 2015 (which includes Xamarin use)
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/07
Wow, Microsoft has come a long way:
MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO COMMUNITY 2015
These license terms are an agreement between Microsoft Corporation (or based on where you live, one of its affiliates) and you. They apply to the software named above. The terms also apply to any Microsoft services or updates for the software, except to the extent those have different terms.
IF YOU COMPLY WITH THESE LICENSE TERMS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS BELOW.
- INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS.
- Individual license. If you are an individual working on your own applications to sell or for any other purpose, you may use the software to develop and test those applications.
- Organization licenses. If you are an organization, your users may use the software as follows:
- Any number of your users may use the software to develop and test your applications released under Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved open source software licenses.
- Any number of your users may use the software to develop and test extensions to Visual Studio.
- Any number of your users may use the software to develop and test your applications as part of online or in person classroom training and education, or for performing academic research.
- If none of the above apply, and you are also not an enterprise (defined below), then up to 5 of your individual users can use the software concurrently to develop and test your applications.
- If you are an enterprise, your employees and contractors may not use the software to develop or test your applications, except for open source and education purposes as permitted above. An “enterprise” is any organization and its affiliates who collectively have either (a) more than 250 PCs or users or (b) more than one million US dollars (or the equivalent in other currencies) in annual revenues, and “affiliates” means those entities that control (via majority ownership), are controlled by, or are under common control with an organization.
- Demo use. The uses permitted above include use of the software in demonstrating your applications.
The license continues, but the above are the most important aspect to verify if you can use Visual Studio 2015 under that license.
Source: MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO COMMUNITY 2015
Via Danial Rail and Mason Wheeler in this thread.
–jeroen
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Anders Live | Build 2016 | Channel 9 – on Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# and TypeScript
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/06
Anders Live – Build 2016 – Channel 9 Stage C907 – Speakers: Anders Hejlsberg, Seth Juarez
Anders explaining about being a pragmatist ever since he started working on the Turbo Pascal predecessor in 1981. It’s been a long way to TypeScript and beyond (:
Lot’s of interesting tidbits about the future of TypeScript and how it relates to other languages.
Source: Anders Live | Build 2016 | Channel 9
Direct URLs:
- Poster: https://sec.ch9.ms/ch9/71d1/32827ab6-c643-4336-b970-8456ea4d71d1/C9LIVE014AndersLive_Custom.jpg
- Medium: https://sec.ch9.ms/ch9/71d1/32827ab6-c643-4336-b970-8456ea4d71d1/C9LIVE014AndersLive_mid.mp4
- High: https://sec.ch9.ms/ch9/71d1/32827ab6-c643-4336-b970-8456ea4d71d1/C9LIVE014AndersLive_high.mp4
- Low: https://sec.ch9.ms/ch9/71d1/32827ab6-c643-4336-b970-8456ea4d71d1/C9LIVE014AndersLive.mp4
–jeroen
PS:
The Turbo Pascal predecessors were called Blue Link Software Pascal, Compas Pascal and Poly Pascal as I learned last year while teaching a workshop for DAPUG in Denmark when I bumped into some people working with Anders while he still lived there a long time ago. Later I researched the above links.
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NHibernate, LINQ, Oracle and the placement of Take: avoid “Specified method is not supported.”
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/22
Even though as of 12c R1, Oracle supports a row limiting clause, NHibernate 4.2 with Oracle.DataAccess.dll 2.112.3.0 does not support that.
When you let it generate the SQL for a LINQ Take call to limit the number of results, you get an exception like this (full exception and stack trace are below):
System.NotSupportedException was unhandled by user code HResult=-2146233067 Message=Specified method is not supported.
The place where you Take is important, as this does fail:
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Reminder to self: app.config and “ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified”
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/17
When you have one app.config for your whole set of DTAP environments (develop/test/acceptance production), every once in a while you get this error:
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified
For this particular setup, it means the replacement of parameters in the app.config with actual values from the DTAP went wrong (or was missing). For that we’ve some steps in both the PreBuildEvent and PostBuildEvent of the .csproj file:
del "$(ProjectDir)$(TargetFileName).config"
copy "$(ProjectDir)app.config" "$(ProjectDir)$(TargetFileName).config"
powershell -noprofile -file Replace-Parameter.ps1 -Path "$(TargetDir)$(TargetFileName).config"
The PreBuildEvent looks like it is not needed, but sometimes Visual Studio forgets to perform the copy action.
–jeroen
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assembly:InternalsVisibleTo: .net – C# “internal” access modifier when doing unit testing – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/16
It seems I always forget about the InternalsVisibleTo attribute which allows you to specify which external assembly can see your internal types and type members:
Internal classes need to be tested and there is an assembly attribute:
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
[assembly:InternalsVisibleTo("MyTests")]Add this to the project info file, e.g. Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs.
Thanks Eric Schaefer for that answer.
–jeroen
via .net – C# “internal” access modifier when doing unit testing – Stack Overflow.
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Sometimes it is Visual Studio’s fault: failure to copy file in a post build event
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/25
Not sure yet why, but every now and then I get a failure like this in Visual Studio (at least in 2013 and up):
2>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(4548,5): error MSB3073: The command "copy /Y "C:\SomePath\SomeProjectName\bin\Debug\SomeProjectName.dll" "C:\SomePath\Shared Assemblies\"" exited with code 1.
2>Done executing task "Exec" -- FAILED.
Most of the times it is me at fault: some process still is using it.
But sometimes, it is devenv.exe (Visual Studio itself) that keeps it locked, even though nothing is running (in fact it can happen right after you loaded the project in Visual Studio 2013).
I found this out by using “Process Explorer Search” (Ctrl+F or Find Handle or DLL).
Not sure why yet.
–jeroen
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nunit – How can I view .NET trace logs in TeamCity? – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/23
This indeed works very well:
All console output is shown in the build log.
So when you need more context on tests that succeed, you can just output them on the Console.
A practical use: testing the sending of SMS messages over HTTPS where the intermediate proxy can change and was giving different effects.
Logging the actual proxy used correlated some run-time findings. Based on that we could write better tests.
–jeroen
via: nunit – How can I view .NET trace logs in TeamCity? – Stack Overflow.
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