Interesting answers to Visual Studio: Find unused code? – Stack Overflow.
- Using Visual Studio 2008+ to remove unused using statements
- Using the [Obsolete] attribute of code you suspect is not used.
- Using ReSharper
- Using NDepend
- Using FxCop
–jeroen
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Visual Studio: Find unused code? – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/04
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Macros are gone since Visual Studio 2012, but an extension brings textual macro’s back (via Can I record/play Macros in Visual Studio 2012/2013? – Stack Overflow)
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/25
This is why I like the extensions in Visual Studio so much: even though recordable macro’s were removed in Visual Studio 11, textual macros (which I used most) are in the Text Macros for Visual Studio 2012/2013 extension by Xavier Poinas:
You can try this extension (I am the author):
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8e2103b6-87cf-4fef-9410-a580c434b602
It basically does the same thing as the Notepad++ macros (text editing, no UI automation).
The code is open source (GitHub), so feel free to contribute improvements :-)
–jeroen
via: Can I record/play Macros in Visual Studio 2012/2013? – Stack Overflow.
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Hack Raspberry Pi – How To Build Apps In C#, WinForms and ASP.NET Using Mono In Pi (via: Amazedsaint’s Tech Journal)
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/24
Interesting: Amazedsaint’s Tech Journal: Hack Raspberry Pi – How To Build Apps In C#, WinForms and ASP.NET Using Mono In Pi.
–jeroen
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Interface unit for sending debug messages to SysInternals ProcessMonitor « bl.OGware
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/10
Interesting, I never knew that [WayBack] Process Monitor has had an API to send messages to, but it has had this ability for almost 5 years: [Archive.is] See the I/O You Caused by Getting Your Diagnostic Tracing into Process Monitor | Wintellect.
I did know about [WayBack] OutputDebugString and the DBWIN protocols, but this was new.
The ZIP file for Process Monitor is offline (but you can find it by searching for ProcMonDebugOutput.zip), and contains .h files and a .NET example.
Thanks [WayBack] Oliver Giesen for the [WayBack] Delphi translation!
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Interface unit for sending debug messages to SysInternals ProcessMonitor « bl.OGware.
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On my research list: NCrunch for Visual Studio
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/04
Thanks Stefan Glienke for pointing me to NCrunch for Visual Studio:
NCrunch is an automated concurrent testing tool for Visual Studio.
It intelligently runs automated tests so that you don’t have to, and gives you a huge amount of useful information about your tested code, such as code coverage and performance metrics, inline in your IDE while you type.
–jeroen
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CSV libraries for .NET
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/27
A few libraries for writing and/or reading CSV files in .NET:
- CsvHelper: I’ve used this to export CSV, and it was very easy.
- LumenWorks.IO: supports databinding; some nice examples are on codeproject.
- FileHelpers: does way more than just CSV (like Access, Excel and SQL Server), so I have not used it yet.
- CsvParser: is still on my list of things to try, as Julian Bucknall is a very thorough developer.
- TextFieldParser: built into the VB.NET run-time. Used it but bumped into TextFieldParser problem with Double Quotes with Quotes.
Most of the above links come from these SO questions:
- Simple C# CSV Excel export class – Stack Overflow.
- Are there any CSV readers/writer libraries in C#? – Stack Overflow.
Together with the links from my previous CSV post If you think CSV is easy; think again that should get everyone going.
–jeroen
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RosettaCode: cool way to improve your coding skills
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/22
Wow: I feel like having lived under a stone for 8 years, as RosettaCode has been alive since it was founded in 2007 by Mike Mol.
The idea is that you solve a task and learn from that, or learn by seeing how others have solved tasks or draft tasks.
So in a sense it is similar to the Rosetta stone: it has different languages phrasing the same tasks.
There are already a whole bunch of languages on RosettaCode (of which a few are in the categories below), and you can even suggest or add your own languages.
When you want to solve tasks, be sure to look at the list unimplemented tasks by language that leads to automatic reports by language (for instance two of the languages I use most often: C# and Delphi).
I’m sure there are lots of programming chrestomathy sites, even beyond the ones, and it feels very similar to programming kata sites.
–jeroen
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Favorite Documents extension for Visual Studio 2010 and up
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/20
This used to be a great Delphi-only feature that I missed in Visual Studio, but I found the downloadable free extension Favorite Documents extension.
It is a by Sergey Vlasov, who has a whole bunch of free and paid Visual Studio add-ins, extensions and tools.
–jeroen
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Tools to generate sample data from regeX expressions (via: Stack Overflow)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/30
Thanks DD59 for posting these interesting links:
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa833197.aspx (The Regular Expression Generator; Visual Studio)
- http://code.google.com/p/xeger/ (Xeger; Java source code)
I like the name `Xeger`.
–jeroen
via: xml – Generate a valid example value for a xs:pattern – Stack Overflow.
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.NET/C#: Chaning the ForeColor of a ReadOnly/Disabled TextBox (via: Stack Overflow)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/24
Once every while you still do WinForms work, and bump into something you hadn’t bumped into before.
This time it was trying to set ForeColor = Color.Red on a ReadOnly TextBox for displaying error messages:
- Using a TextBox means the user can still copy the text to the clipboard.
- Using a Red foreground draws enough attention (it’s was an app with a really busy user interface).
When setting a TextBox from ReadOnly = false to true sets the BackColor from SystemColors.Window (usually white) to SystemColors.Control (usually light grey), and leaves the ForeColor to SystemColors.WindowText (usually black).
Setting ForeColor = Color.Red (funny there is a plural in SystemColors but not in Color) it doesn’t display it as such:
To my surprise, the TextBox had ReadOnly text (you could copy, but not modify it), which showed with a a grey (SystemColors.Control) BackColor and a black (SystemColors.WindowText) ForeColor: the defaults for a ReadOnly TextBox, not using my ForeColor = Color.Red;
I vaguely remembered there was some odd way of solving this, but since I hadn’t written a blog article about it back then (somewhere around .NET 1.x or 2.0 I didn’t have a blog yet), I was glad that Cheetah posted this answer on StackOverflow: Read the rest of this entry »
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