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How to update your TFS Workspace after CodePlex upgrade to TFS2010

Recently CodePlex updated their TFS to the 2010 version, during the update your reference TFS server may have changed name (like it happened for Dexter, our original TFS server was tfs05.codeplex.com and now it is tfs.codeplex.com). To switch to the new
Primordial Code
 
tags: visual studio team foundation server
Jul 28 2010 01:33 AM
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Visual Studio Ideas

Do you have a great idea for the next version of Visual Studio and you want to get your voice heard? Now is your chance! Go to twitter and post a message stating your request with the hash tag #vswish and we will take a look at it. We are listening to
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi - MSBuild, C#, Visual Studio, Training, and more
 
Ibrahim
tags: feature-request visual studio
Jul 23 2010 10:56 PM
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Visual Studio PowerShell Add-On live interview today

At 9:30 pm EST/6:30 pm PST join PowerScripting podcast hosts and Adam Driscoll to learn more about how you can have rich PowerShell scripting environment right in Visual Studio. While I personally mostly use PowerGUI Script Editor and think that this is
Dmitry's PowerBlog: PowerShell and beyond
 
Dmitry Sotnikov
tags: ide powershell visual studio
Jul 23 2010 08:27 AM
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MSI: a simple Delete Files Custom Action

Reviewing the Install/Uninstall process I’ve created using the standard Visual Studio Setup Project template, I’ve noticed that some files were always left on the installation folder after a complete program uninstall sequence. The default behavior is to
Primordial Code
 
tags: .net custom action uninstall visual studio
Jul 13 2010 07:05 AM
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TFS and You

How many of you are using Visual Studio 2010? How many of you are writing SSIS packages? How many of you are pissed off, irritated, or confused about how you’ll be able to write and version control your SSIS packages (VS 2008) once you’ve
Jeremiah Peschka, SQL Server Developer
 
Jeremiah Peschka
tags: sql server tfs visual studio syndication
Jul 08 2010 02:52 AM
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Another Nice DevExpress CodeRush Refactoring

For the last few days, I’ve been using DevExpress CodeRush and am finding some very useful refactorings.  Many I’m not blogging about, but there are a few that I really like.  In this post,... This site is a resource for asp.net web
PeterKellner.net
 
Peter
tags: coderush refactor visual studio visual studio 2010
Jul 06 2010 12:53 AM
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A Handy Refactoring with CodeRush (InLine Temp)

I’ve recently started using CodeRush with Visual Studio 2010 and am so far very impressed with the convenience it adds to coding.  One thing that is very clear is that the creators of CodeRush... This site is a resource for asp.net web programming.
PeterKellner.net
 
Peter
tags: c# coderush refactor visual studio
Jul 02 2010 08:56 PM
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Simplify Entity Framework v4 models with complex types

One neat feature in Microsoft’s Entity Framework is support for complex types in the model. Complex types allow you to group together a bunch of properties in their own type and reuse that type from multiple entities. Complex types have been supported by
KristoferA's blog
 
tags: efv4 vs2010 visual studio entity framework
Jul 01 2010 02:38 PM
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VS2010 Tips #13: How to do multi-targeting in Visual Studio 2010 Express edition

In my previous blog post I wrote that the requirement to enable multi-targeting feature in Visual Studio 2010 is .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installed in the machine. But why does it not enable the Target Framework dropdown in File –> New –> Project /
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio tips & tricks vs2010 vs2010-tips
Jul 01 2010 11:40 AM
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VS2010 Tips #12: Patch for Cut/Copy “insufficient memory” issue in Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010 RTM has a bug in calculating available memory when developer try and do Cut or Copy text operations. "Insufficient available memory to meet the expected demands of an operation at this time, possibly due to virtual address space
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio tips & tricks vs2010 vs2010-tips
Jun 28 2010 10:20 PM
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Where the heck is Visual Studio Command Prompt?

You got answer on MSDN forums telling you to run devenv /ResetSettings in Visual Studio 2008 command prompt but after searching you computer you can’t find it. Where the heck is it? Look at below picture, you will be able to find it easily. If it doesn’t
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio tips & tricks vs2005 vs2008
Jun 24 2010 08:51 AM
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VS2010 Tips #11: Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools extension

Visual Studio team has released Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools extension. This is a great extension to increase your productivity and bring back some Visual Studio 2008 feature such as close button in the tab well. Here is the description I copied
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio extensions productivity tips & tricks
Jun 20 2010 07:24 PM
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Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools extension

Visual Studio team has released Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools extension. This is a great extension to increase your productivity and bring back some Visual Studio 2008 feature such as close button in the tab well. Here is the description I copied
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio extensions vs2010
Jun 20 2010 03:02 PM
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Web Deployment Projects and WebConfigReplacementFiles for Custom Sections

I have previously explained how to properly configure your web deployment projects to replace web.config sections.  The example I used was pretty standard – swap out connection strings to support the specific deployment environment.  It worked
JohnnyCoder
 
Ben Griswold
tags: asp.net mvc deployment tools visual studio
Jun 19 2010 02:14 AM
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A VS2010 Project Made From Post: How to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Windows Service

MSDN has a very nice article on how to create a windows service that hosts a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service.  It explains all the details of doing this in a step by step... This site is a resource for asp.net web programming. It has
PeterKellner.net
 
Peter
tags: asp.net 4.0 vs2010 visual studio visual studio 2010
Jun 18 2010 07:55 PM
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Temporarily Disabling ReSharper

I have ReSharper installed and think it is a great tool for productivity, but occasionally I find it useful to temporarily disable it to speed up Visual Studio (especially so on my old slow laptop). This is achieved in two different ways, depending on
I can't remember where I read it....
 
Adrian Banks
tags: resharper visual studio .net
Jun 11 2010 05:22 AM
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Enable javascript Debugging in IE

To enable javascript in IE, do the following steps Open IE –> Tools –>  Internet Options –> Go to Advanced Tab –> uncheck Disable script debugging(Internet Explore) Note: uncheck Disable script debugging(other) to enable debugging in
Anish Varghese - My World of Microsoft Technologies
 
Anish
tags: visual studio
Jun 09 2010 05:48 AM
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VS2010 Tips #10: How to change Local Help Library path

In this blog post, I want to show you how to change the path of the Local Help Library. Let’s say you want to move the location of the local content being stored. You can simply move the files and change the path. Where is it stored now? run the Help
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio tips & tricks vs2010 vs2010-tips
May 31 2010 09:55 AM
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Collection of great .vssettings files for all versions of Visual Studio

the easy way to find new styles No posts for a while, been busy in grad school, hopefully I can start posting more again. Studio Styles is a great resource with all sorts of different style setups which are quick to preview and download for all versions
naspinski
 
tags: visual studio
May 29 2010 12:11 AM
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Collection of great .vssettings files for all versions of Visual Studio

the easy way to find new styles No posts for a while, been busy in grad school, hopefully I can start posting more again. Studio Styles is a great resource with all sorts of different style setups which are quick to preview and download for all versions
naspinski
 
tags: visual studio
May 28 2010 10:08 AM
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Boost your productivity using shortcuts in Visual Studio

A major aim of everyone is (or should be) to increase his personal productivity. Now productivity is a vast term actually. It can be related to individual programming productivity focusing on code quality problems but it can also be related to management
Juri Strumpflohner's TechBlog
 
tags: visual studio
May 26 2010 02:59 PM
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Install Visual Studio 2010 RC and report bugs ASAP – it might be not too late to fix!

Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is available for download (all three editions - Pro, Premium and Ultimate) and I ask you to install it, give a try and more importantly - try your real projects on it. Why bother? Because you can help to make it the
Signs on the Sand
 
tags: visual studio
May 26 2010 09:34 AM
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Converting VIM color schemes to Visual Studio color schemes

My favorite text editor right now is vim. As a result, I cannot develop without my (customized) vim key bindings. To get around that when writing .NET code, I use ViEmu when I’m in Visual Studio. However, I still miss the huge variety of color schemes
David Mohundro
 
David Mohundro
tags: powershell vim visual studio
May 22 2010 04:56 AM
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BetterXml

BetterXml is a Visual Studio 2010 extension I’ve been working on recently in an attempt to improve the experience of the built-in XML editor in VS. Right now it’s only on its early stages, so it doesn’t add much, but I hope to improve it as I find new
Winterdom
 
Tomas Restrepo
tags: visual studio
May 20 2010 09:13 AM
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VS2010 Tips #9: Moving from Multiple Documents window layout to Floating Window of Visual Studio 2010

If you’re one of the fans of Multiple Document window layout in previous versions of Visual Studio, you will miss that feature in Visual Studio 2010. Below is the options of Visual Studio 2008 And this is the option of Visual Studio 2010 Yep the setting
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio tips & tricks vs2008 vs2010
May 18 2010 01:42 PM
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VS2010 Tips #8: Got annoying Visual Studio 2010 error? Try to run in Safe Mode

Sometimes not well-coded extensions/add-ons can cause very annoying error. If you got any error in running Visual Studio 2010, especially if you use lot of 3rd party extensions/add-ons, then running Visual Studio 2010 in Safe Mode will be worth to
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio tips & tricks vs2010 vs2010-tips
May 16 2010 05:45 AM
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Accessing Visual Studio’s Automation API from F# Interactive

Because why anyone would want to write VBA in the Visual Studio macro editor is beyond me. All the bits and pieces below are pretty much known, but I think the overall result is new. For the bewildered (I don’t blame you), what you’ll be able to do is,
Forty Six and Two
 
tags: f# visual studio
May 16 2010 03:42 AM
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Tell me what you don’t like about TFS 2010

I know that a lot of people have had bad experiences with TFS over the years, and so does the TFS development team. The team at Microsoft is very intent on learning what it is that people find irritating, problematic, or difficult, and correcting it.
Elegant Code
 
David Starr
tags: microsoft team system visual studio
May 15 2010 06:26 PM
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VS2010 Tips #7: How to make jQuery Intellisense work for external JavaScript file

Simply drag-n-drop the jQuery library from Solution Explorer to the opened external JavaScript file. The Intellisense should work now.  
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio tips & tricks vs2010 vs2010-tips
May 13 2010 01:48 AM
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VS2010 Tips #6: Easy way to troubleshoot Visual Studio 2010 issues

Incompatible add-ons or system configurations can cause Visual Studio issues (performance issue, error, etc). Fortunately we can try to troubleshoot the issues by referring to the Visual Studio activity log. Simply run the following command to run Visual
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio tips & tricks vs2010 vs2010-tips
May 12 2010 05:08 AM
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VS2010 Tips #5: No Intellisense in Visual Studio 2010? Fix it now!

By default Visual Studio 2010 comes with Intellisense feature enabled. By the way, there are some cases that it’s disabled – can be caused by anything (setting changes on add-in installation, importing settings, human error, your teammate , etc). The fix
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio intellisense tips & tricks vs2010
May 09 2010 10:56 PM
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VS2010 Tips #4: H3Viewer – alternative Visual Studio 2010 help viewer

If you’re not comfortable with Visual Studio 2010’s help viewer (Microsoft Help Viewer 1.0), then H3Viewer will be a good alternative for you. This is much like the help viewer of Visual Studio 2005 ad Visual Studio 2008. What are you waiting for?
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio h3viewer tips & tricks vs2010
May 09 2010 08:09 PM
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VS2010 Tips #3: Updating multiple Visual Studio 2010 Help content with a single download

Visual Studio 2010 comes with a new Help viewer. If you didn’t realize that, run the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Documentation and you will see what I mean (I assume you have installed it when you’re installing VS2010). Even though it provides lighter
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio help-viewer tips & tricks vs2010
May 09 2010 07:41 PM
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VS2010 Tips #2: Visual Studio 2010 side-by-side installation with earlier versions

In some forums in found that people asking whether he/she can install Visual Studio 2010 side-by-side with earlier version(s) of it. The answer is YES. I have Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, and Visual Studio 2010 installed in one machine (OS is
Ferry Meidianto's Blog
 
Ferry Meidianto
tags: visual studio tips & tricks vs2005 vs2008
May 09 2010 07:05 PM
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Lifting the .NET Hood – Part 2 – Back to basics

When I looked at the first post in this series, I realized had jumped the gun a bit by going straight to generics and didn’t do enough justice to the fundamentals. So in this post, I have made an effort to go back to the basics. The CLR (Common
Tech Bytes!!!
 
Ganesh Ranganathan
tags: .net c# visual studio clr
May 09 2010 02:21 PM
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Visual Studio: Unable to Edit and Continue?

The past few days I was unable to Edit and Continue in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate from my home machine, which is running Windows 7 64bit. I knew there were some issues with this on 64bit, I figured one of my projects was not targeting x86 so I just
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi - MSBuild, C#, Visual Studio, Training, and more
 
Ibrahim
tags: edit and continue intellitrace visual studio visual studio 2010
May 09 2010 03:51 AM
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Visual Studio projects not building anymore?

Recently I had the chance to work on a WPF app and it was behaving very strangely when I built and ran the application. For instance I tried to debug the application from Visual Studio and I received an error staging “Visual Studio cannot start debugging
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi - MSBuild, C#, Visual Studio, Training, and more
 
Ibrahim
tags: visual studio visual studio 2010 wpf
May 08 2010 08:13 AM
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VS 2010 First Look :: Debugger Improvements

The VS 2010 debugger has a some great new capabilities like Intellitrace (historical debugging), the new parallel/multithreaded debugging capabilities, and dump debuging support. For now we will demonstrate some new tiny usability improvements in VS
To Be A Developer Or Not To Be
 
Ahmed Abdul Moniem
tags: cutting edge .net .net 4.0 visual studio
May 07 2010 07:02 PM
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VS 2010 First Look :: Call Hierarchy

Old versions of VS like 2008 for example was really painful when trying to navigate from an interface method for example to its implementation. Now, as we have seen a lot of improvements in navigability in VS 2010, we have been introduced with a very
To Be A Developer Or Not To Be
 
Ahmed Abdul Moniem
tags: cutting edge .net .net 4.0 visual studio
May 06 2010 12:12 PM
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VS 2010 First Look :: Box Selection

One of the amazing features I have seen in the new VS 2010 IDE is box selection. All you have to do is to click on ALT key + left mouse button and then drag. What will you see?
To Be A Developer Or Not To Be
 
Ahmed Abdul Moniem
tags: cutting edge .net .net 4.0 visual studio
May 02 2010 09:24 PM