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Programming Practices: Part 2 – Thoughts on TDD

Well, it seems the last post wasn’t too controversial.  Let me try something that might be a bit more controversial.  Heck, it might even get some people down right agitated with me but that’s OK, disagreement is a useful tool to drive clarity
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bharry
tags: visual studio
Mar 11 2010 02:26 AM
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Programming Practices: Part 1 – Watching from a distance

I figured I’d start the series with a more abstract post about what watching me code looks like.  It was interesting to observe myself doing it because I didn’t really realize the degree to which I do some things.  If I were to summarize my
bharry's WebLog
 
bharry
tags: visual studio
Mar 09 2010 10:22 PM
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Regular Expression for Phone Numbers

I was looking out for Regular Expressions for validating Phone Numbers of different countries. Here are some of them:French Phone Number - (0( \d\d ))?\d\d \d\d(\d \d \d\d )\d\dGerman Phone Number - ((\(0\d\d\) (\(0\d{3}\) )?\d )?\d\d \d\d \d\d\(0\d{4}\)
DevCurry
 
tags: asp.net misc ramblings visual studio
Mar 09 2010 08:16 PM
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Series on Programming Practices

This is the first post in a series I’ve decided to write on my Programming Practices.  I’m not trying to say everyone has to do it the way I do it but I figured it might be interesting to talk about how I do it and have some fun, if sometimes
bharry's WebLog
 
bharry
tags: visual studio
Mar 09 2010 07:15 AM
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Some VS 2010 RC Updates (including patches for Intellisense and Web Designer fixes)

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] We are continuing to make progress on shipping Visual Studio 2010.  I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who has
ScottGu's Blog
 
ScottGu
tags: visual studio .net community news
Mar 08 2010 02:19 PM
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A few announcements for those in the UK

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] This a quick post to announce a few upcoming events for those in the UK. I’ll be presenting in Glasgow, Scotland on March 25th
ScottGu's Blog
 
ScottGu
tags: asp.net visual studio .net commerce server
Mar 08 2010 01:07 PM
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VS 2010 / .NET 4 Release Candidate

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] This afternoon we made available the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release candidates.  You can find download links here. Right now
ScottGu's Blog
 
ScottGu
tags: .net community news visual studio
Mar 08 2010 10:40 AM
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VS 2010 RC Patch available for the # 1 Connect bug

The most commonly reported/voted for Connect bugs in the Release candidate had to do with the ASP.NET designer not auto generating controls properly - it would sometimes just omit them.  Very frustrating if you are trying to use it.  We've just
bharry's WebLog
 
bharry
tags: visual studio
Mar 06 2010 10:48 PM
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Second Intellisense patch for the 2010 RC

We had a number of reports about Intellisense crashes soon after the RC was released.  After much investigation, the vast majority of reports have boiled down to two issues.  We released a patch for the more common of the two a week or so
bharry's WebLog
 
bharry
tags: visual studio
Mar 05 2010 09:16 PM
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Optimizing Visual Studio 2010 and WPF applications for Remote Desktop

As part of our work to improve VS performance after VS 2010 beta 2, we've done a ton of analysis of VS in various scenarios.  One of them is VS over remote desk top.  We've made a number of fixes to improve the performance but there are also
bharry's WebLog
 
bharry
tags: visual studio
Mar 05 2010 09:09 PM
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Beta of VS Team Explorer with Cross Platform Support

Last November, I posted about our acquisition of the assets of Teamprise, a partner who provides access to Team Foundation Server from Eclipse and non-Windows platforms.    The Teamprise products have been very popular with TFS customers who
Somasegar's WebLog
 
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tags: developer division visual studio visual studio team system
Mar 05 2010 04:26 PM
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Quick Hints: Solving VS 2010 Beta1 only showing Splash Screen; AnkhSVN works; R# in June

Check the add-ins you installed before Visual Studio 2010 if you enabled VS 2010 integration in them. Particularly TestDriven.NET is the problem. Go to “Add Remove Programs” / “Programs and Features”, find Test Driven.NET, click “Change”, and then modify
Guru Stop
 
Mohamed Meligy
tags: blog .net faq resharper (r#) visual studio
Mar 05 2010 02:28 AM
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Solution: Testing Web Services with MSTest on Team Build

Guess what. About 20 minutes after I fixed the build, Allan broke it again! The problem here is that even though the test passes locally it will not during an Automated Build. When you send your tests to the build server it does not understand that you
Martin Hinshelwood
 
Martin Hinshelwood
tags: vsts vsts building & releasing visual studio ssw
Mar 04 2010 08:13 PM
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Solution: Testing Web Services with MSTest on Team Build

Guess what. About 20 minutes after I fixed the build, Allan broke it again! Update: 4th March 2010 – After having huge problems getting this working I read Billy Wang’s post which showed me the light. The problem here is that even though the test passes
Martin Hinshelwood
 
Martin Hinshelwood
tags: vsts vsts building & releasing visual studio ssw
Mar 04 2010 06:45 PM
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That's what I'm missing in Visual Studio! Give me better code editor support!!

Visual Studio is great in doing many things as for instance in integrating with other MS products (obviously) or with debugging. The VS debugger is one of the best I've seen till now (using different IDEs). One thing however I always again miss is having
Juri Strumpflohner's TechBlog
 
tags: annotated eclipse visual studio
Mar 03 2010 03:44 AM
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Toolbox –> "Choose items" crashes Visual Studio

If you ever encounter a crash when choosing the items to display in Visual Studios toolbox, then try this solution:   Start Visual Studio in safe mode using:  Start->Run->devenv /safemode In the Toolbox “Choose items”, accept any error
Edward Wilde
 
Edward Wilde
tags: bugs visual studio visualstudio bugs
Mar 02 2010 08:41 PM
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New Offers for Visual Studio 2010

Last October, we announced a new packaging lineup and licensing options for Visual Studio 2010 to provide customers with simplified ways to purchase and license Visual Studio.  The new lineup includes three main versions of Visual Studio with
Somasegar's WebLog
 
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tags: developer division visual studio msdn
Mar 02 2010 02:44 PM
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Next Generation Testing with Visual Studio 2010

Join us for a sneak peek at some of the new capabilities in Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010, a landmark release of the premier development and testing toolset for Windows®, Web, and cloud development. Microsoft has made significant investments to improve
bharry's WebLog
 
bharry
tags: visual studio
Mar 01 2010 09:30 PM
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SSD, Visual Studio and improving developer productivity

After reading lots of reviews, articles and watching a few youtube videos comparing Solid State Drives to Hard Disk Drives, I was unsure that’d see a beneficial improvement in my day-to-day developer tools of Visual Studio, such as building and
FatLemon
 
Andrew
tags: uncategorized productivity ssd visual studio
Feb 28 2010 05:35 PM
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Using Orca to manage MSI packages

There are many programs that come with MSI installer and not every installer is free of bugs or small problems. If you are building your own installer using Visual Studio you may want to change it before publishing it to users. Here is little overview of
Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog
 
DigiMortal
tags: windows installer visual studio windows tools
Feb 28 2010 05:32 PM
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No Intellisense with VS 2010 RC (and how to fix it)

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] Patrick recently posted about something he found odd when installing the VS 2010 RC – which was that code intellisense for C#
ScottGu's Blog
 
ScottGu
tags: .net community news visual studio
Feb 27 2010 01:37 PM
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The “What’s New in Visual Studio” Sessions – March 1st through 9th in Selected Canadian Cities

If you’re wondering what’s new in Visual Studio 2010, you’re going to want to catch these sessions taking place in March. You’ll get a grand tour of all the new capabilities as well as the new MSDN offerings that come with the new Visual Studio. The
Global Nerdy
 
Joey deVilla
tags: meetups programming presentations visual studio
Feb 26 2010 12:10 PM
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Basic Instincts: Generic Co- and Contravariance in Visual Basic 2010

Dig into the new co- and contravariance features coming in Visual Studio 2010. Binyam Kelile provides hands-on Visual Basic examples to explain how they provide more flexibility when working with generic interfaces and delegates.Binyam KelileMSDN
MSDN Magazine: RSS Feed
 
MSDN Magazine
tags: visual basic visual studio
Feb 24 2010 01:30 PM
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Thread Diagnostics: Performance Tuning with The Concurrency Visualizer in Visual Studio 2010

Understanding performance bottlenecks in multithreaded apps used to require significant instrumentation and analysis by expert developers. The Concurrency Visualizer in Visual Studio 2010 significantly reduces the burden of parallel performance
MSDN Magazine: RSS Feed
 
MSDN Magazine
tags: visual studio concurrency performance
Feb 24 2010 01:30 PM
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Key Software Development Trends

More than ever before, today’s developers are open to considering and using multiple technologies to enable them to build solutions smoothly and deliver them to their customers quickly.  There are an increasing number of choices available for
Somasegar's WebLog
 
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tags: developer division visual studio .net framework
Feb 24 2010 01:53 AM
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Some e-books and .NET 4.0 beta exams

Lately I have found some pretty interesting e-books about different technologies and one announcement about .NET Framework 4.0 beta exams. In this posting I will introduce you books I found and first beta exams. e-Books C# to IL by Vijay Mukhy is good
Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog
 
DigiMortal
tags: asp.net .net visual studio behind the compiler
Feb 23 2010 04:45 PM
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Fix for XAML Highlighting in VS2010

Both Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 have a rather annoying issue relating to how XAML is highlighted in the Text Editor. I’ve complained in the past that the XAML designer team introduced a separate set of classifications (i.e. options in the Fonts and
Winterdom
 
Tomas Restrepo
tags: visual studio
Feb 20 2010 07:22 AM
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Flattening class hierarchies when debugging C#

One piece of feedback I heard in the MVP sessions this week is that debugging deep class hierarchies in C# is painful.  By default C# will only display the fields and properties declared on a given type.  To get to base class members you must
jaredpar's WebLog
 
Jared Parsons
tags: c# debugging developing visual studio
Feb 20 2010 03:37 AM
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The 18th of Diduary: Did you know you can manage multiple items in your clipboard?

Today is the eighteenth day of Diduary. You can see links to all of the published articles in the series here.If you're not aware of today's tip, don't feel bad. Natively, Windows only has the one clipboard. You copy something to it, and you erase the
Blankenthoughts
 
tags: visual studio clipboard diduary
Feb 18 2010 12:02 PM
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VS2010 and IntelliTrace

Some links that I made use of today in reading about the new IntelliTrace ( or “historical debugger” ) in Visual Studio 2010… Habib ’s articles; An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part I) An in depth look at the Historical
Mike Taulty's Blog
 
mtaulty
tags: visual studio
Feb 18 2010 05:46 AM
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The 17th of Diduary: Did you know you can now control the behavior of the Start Page in Visual Studio?

Today is the seventeenth day of Diduary. You can see links to all of the published articles in the series here.We've all come to expect that friendly-looking Start page in Visual Studio, haven't we? Some of you probably hate it, and others of us rely on
Blankenthoughts
 
tags: visual studio diduary start page
Feb 17 2010 12:49 PM
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The 16th of Diduary: Did you know Intellisense has different modes?

Today is the sixteenth day of Diduary. You can see links to all of the published articles in the series here.I only recently discovered this tip, but it has changed the way that I work in Visual Studio 2010. If you've ever started typing something that
Blankenthoughts
 
tags: visual studio diduary intellisense
Feb 16 2010 01:41 PM
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Multi-touch fix for VS 2010 RC available

The most commonly reported problem with the Release Candidate is a bug that causes crashes in IntelliSense when used on a multitouch capable system.  We've released a patch for the RC to address this issue.  You can download it here:
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bharry
tags: visual studio
Feb 16 2010 05:08 AM
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Patch for VS 2010 RC Intellisense Crash Issue Now Available

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] Last week I blogged about an intellisense crashing issue that is unfortunately in the VS 2010 RC.  Crash Symptom If you
ScottGu's Blog
 
ScottGu
tags: visual studio .net community news
Feb 15 2010 11:53 PM
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Visual Studio External Tools for Git and more

I admit it. For an application I've had open for literally over 10,000 total hours, there's stuff about Visual Studio that I have no clue about. None. It's a fun little revelation each time I inadvertently learn something new or useful. This post is
Kurt Schindler
 
tags: visual studio
Feb 13 2010 11:55 PM
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Reconfigure TFS 2010 RC to select another Database Edition

In this small post, I will show you how to reconfigure Team Foundation Server (TFS) using SQL Server 2008 R2. Here’s some background information:I had installed TFS 2010 RC with basic settings which means that I had TFS 2010 RC installed on a box which
DevCurry
 
tags: visual studio
Feb 13 2010 11:53 PM
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Intellisense Crashing fix for VS 2010

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] We shipped the VS 2010 RC on Monday, and have seen some great feedback regarding performance and stability with it. One issue,
ScottGu's Blog
 
ScottGu
tags: asp.net visual studio .net
Feb 13 2010 05:34 AM
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Azure Tutorial – Building a ‘Hello Azure’ App in Visual Studio

Step by Step guide for how to create a basic application using Visual Studio [AzureSupport.com]
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admin
tags: azure visual studio windows azure
Feb 12 2010 10:48 PM
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Learn about VS 2010 in Canada

The Microsoft field team in Canada is running a series of events across the great white north, targeting existing customers and people who want to understand the new capabilities coming in Visual Studio 2010, as well as understand the impacts of
bharry's WebLog
 
bharry
tags: visual studio team system visual studio tfs
Feb 12 2010 10:47 PM
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Visual Studio 2008 jQuery Intellisense - Error updating JScript IntelliSense: Object doesn't support this property

I had recently posted about the jQuery 1.4.1 Intellisense support for Visual Studio. A user commented back saying that intellisense did not work for him. He encountered an error in Visual Studio that said “Error updating JScript IntelliSense”If you are
DevCurry
 
tags: visual studio jquery
Feb 11 2010 05:23 PM