Archive for the ‘Visual Studio 11’ Category
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 »
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
Posted in .NET, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »
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.
Posted in .NET, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2002, Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools | 4 Comments »
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
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »
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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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/16
Posted in .NET, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/15
Posted in .NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, Fiddler, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/15
Simple steps on how to hang visual studio:
- Debug a piece that throws an uncatched System.Net.WebException (probably works with many more kinds of exceptions)
- In the “WebException was unhandled by user code” pane, press “View Detail…”
- In the “View Detail” modal dialog, press the * key on your numeric keypad (this is the “Expand all” command for a TreeView)
This will get you a nice box (and no way to close Visual Studio except killing it from the task manager):
Microsoft Visual Studio is Busy
Microsoft Visual Studio is waiting for an internal operation to complete. If you regularly encouter this delay during normal usage, please report this problem to Microsoft.
There seems to be no bounds checking for the “Expand All” functionality.
–jeroen
Posted in Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/01
For my reminder list: lots of people forget to checkin/undo changes in TFS of stuff automatically checked out by Visual Studio when investigating a problem in their program.
This shows how to view changes made by other users (always in other workspaces because they are not you).
You can do it from Visual Studio, of with the tf command line tool.
View Pending Changes in Other Workspaces.
–jeroen
Posted in Development, Software Development, Source Code Management, TFS (Team Foundation System), Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/16
This is one of the things I tend to forget, as you do it once per machine, and the place to do it is not logical to me.
I mainly use it to quickly record a Macro (boy, I wish Office had a TemporaryMacro feature like Visual Studio had. Alas no more: Macro Recording/Playback has been removed in Visual Studio 2012).
The logical place for me would be to have a context-menu on the ribbon where you can enable the Developer tab.
Anyway, this is how to enable the Developer tab in Word 2007/2010/2013: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Development, Office, Office 2007, Office 2010, Office 2013, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2002, Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools, Word | Leave a Comment »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 