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Syntax highlighting

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/23

Visual Studio 2013 syntax highlighting: watch the closing curly brace.

 Console.WriteLine(“URL IS : http://localhost/:{0}”, portnumber);

–jeroen

20141211-Syntax-Highlighting

Posted in .NET, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

As of Visual Studio 2012, the option “Find Shelveset” is hard to find – via: Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/07/28

Shelving work into a shelveset is easy in Visual Studio. Until Visual Studio 2010 it was easy to find the shelveset.

As of Visual Studio 2012 this is much more difficult. To get the shelveset back in Visual Studio 2012 and up:

  1. Go to the “Team Explorer” pane
  2. Click the “Home” icon
  3. Choose “Pending Changes”
  4. Click the topmost “Actions” item
  5. In the pop-up menu, click “Find Shelvesets”
  6. Type a search phrase

–jeroen

via: Can anybody find the TFS “Unshelve” option in Visual Studio 2012? – Stack Overflow.

Posted in .NET, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2014, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

The unknown beauty of shared projects in .NETGeert van Horrik

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/02

Interesting:

Shared Projects

Shared Projects are a new feature of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. It was initially created to support universal apps apps for both Windows Phone RT and Windows RT, and that’s what most people know about it.

However there is also this genius Visual Studio extension that allows Shared Projects on any .NET project. It means that you can create a project shproj that contains a list of C# files. This file can be referenced by any project and will be included at compile time.

With Shared Projects you are always able to debug through any references code. This makes it very easy to find and fix issues or test new features.

Note that in Visual Studio 2015, this is an official feature: Shared Project : An Impressive Feature of Visual Studio 2015 Preview.

Thanks Matthijs ter Woord for noticing that.

–jeroen

via: The unknown beauty of shared projects in .NETGeert van Horrik.

Posted in .NET, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

Batch file: Finds the location of xsd.exe by running the vsvars32.bat of the youngest installed Visual Studio

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/12

Boy, Microsoft made it hard to find the location of xsd.exe!

It is actually located like here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.1A\bin\NETFX 4.5.1 Tools\xsd.exe

But that is nowhere on the default path, nor in the registry.

What happens during installation of Visual Studio and/or the Microsoft SDK, is that the vsvars32.bat file of Visual Studio is updated so it can add the location of many tools (including xsd.exe) to the PATH.

So the trick is to find the youngest Visual Studio first, then run the according vsvars32.bat, and then xsd.exe is on the path.


:: Dynamically finds the installed xsd.exe, then calls it with the passed parameters
:: test these environment variables that have 110 or 120 in them (future enhancements: support more Visual Studio versions):
:: Visual Studio .NET 2002: VS70COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Common7\Tools\
:: Visual Studio .NET 2003: VS71COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\
:: Visual Studio 2005: VS80COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\
:: Visual Studio 2008: VS90COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\
:: Visual Studio 2010: VS100COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools\
:: Visual Studio 2012: VS110COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\Tools\
:: Visual Studio 2013: VS120COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\Tools\
:: They contain `vsvars32.bat` which will update the `PATH` so it includes where `xsd.exe` resides
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
:: delayed expansion allows for the exclamation marks
:: see http://ss64.com/nt/delayedexpansion.html
:: see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22857407/windows-batch-how-to-assign-variable-with-dynamic-name
for %%v in (70 71 80 90 100 110 120 130) do if not [!VS%%vCOMNTOOLS!]==[] set VSCOMNTOOLS=!VS%%vCOMNTOOLS!
call :do call "!VSCOMNTOOLS!vsvars32.bat"
call :do where xsd.exe
xsd.exe %*
endlocal
goto :eof
:do
echo %*
%*
goto :eof

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Run-Xsd.exe.bat

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–jeroen

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Posted in .NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, C# 6 (Roslyn), Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2014, Visual Studio and tools, XML/XSD, XSD | 1 Comment »

Allow tests to be grouped by class, category, and namespace in Test Explorer – Customer Feedback for Microsoft

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/07

Usually I setup the grouping and filtering of the Test Explorer like this:

I really wish there was a multi-level grouping possibility here (:

–jeroen

via: Allow tests to be grouped by class, category, and namespace in Test Explorer – Customer Feedback for Microsoft.

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Finding the path of xsd.exe from your Visual Studio Build Events

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/05

I wrote about the xsd.exe tool before to generate XSD from XML:

But it is much more than that, as it is a great way of generating .NET (not only C# and VB.NET code) from XSD files:

Long ago, xsd.exe used to come as part of Visual Studio, but now it is installed with the various Microsoft Windows SDK versions (of which some are downloadable) which makes it harder to locate on your system.

The really bad thing is that Visual Studio cannot find XSD.exe as part of your project Build Events, as the PATH has not been set up correctly.

Starting xsd.exe from a Visual Studio Build Events

In my hunt for the xsd.exe location, I started with a small batch file to find the xsd.exe locations from the registry:

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Posted in .NET, Continuous Integration, Development, msbuild, Software Development, Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2014, Visual Studio and tools, XML/XSD, XSD | 3 Comments »

Find an installed tf.exe, then run it with the command-line parameters specified.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/30

Often I want to execute a TF.exe from the console, but don’t have the Visual Studio environment variables setup. Most of the times I want to run TF.exe from the most current Visual Studio installation, hence this TF.bat file figures out the location of it, then runs with the parameters passed to TF.bat: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in .NET, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2014, Visual Studio and tools | 1 Comment »

Developer Assistant for Visual Studio with access to millions of code samples- via: Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/02

I’m going to experiment with this. Most likely the quality of the code samples will be the biggest factor in like/dislike result.

Visual Studio – Google+.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, C# 6 (Roslyn), Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2014, Visual Studio and tools | 1 Comment »

IlMerge is on NuGet.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/19

IlMerge is a great way to merge multiple .NET assemblies into one, and I use it most often to combine assemblies with console applications so I end up with one executable..

However getting the latest version always was a hassle as the ilmerge download link was unclear about the version number.

Until I found out that IlMerge is on NuGet.

To get started with NuGet, either download the NuGet GUI or command-line version, then use either of these entry points to work with NuGet packages:

There is much more to the Package Manager Console and the Package Manager Dialog.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

Visual Studio: Find unused code? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/04

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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