Alik Levin's : VSTS

Visual Studio 2005 As General Code Search Tool

alikl — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:50:51 GMT

Visual Studio 2005 has powerful search capabilities. One of my favorites is "Find in Files".

Just hit Ctrl+Shift+F (more shortcuts - My Favorite Shortcuts).

Essentially it uses FindStr utility that sits in System32 folder and comes for free with Windows OS. FindStr is a command line utility and those who like typing would prefer it, but those who like UI would go for Visual Studio. There is no need to open project - just fire up Visual Studio and hit Ctrl+Shift+F.

I discussed different searching options I practice here - Security Code Inspection - Eternal Search For SQL Injection , but I thought FindStr and its utilization in Visual Studio deserves special attention.

The best part I like is that after hitting "Find All" button I am presented with list of all files that matched the search criteria and the match itself, so I can quickly evaluate what I got in my net. Once I smell something fishy I hit the file and it opens in the very same Visual Studio for detailed inspection. I think it is very handy.

Enjoy.

patterns&practices Releases Beta 1 Of VS TFS Guide To Codeplex

alikl — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:23:01 GMT

Go straight to the web site here - http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide and Download the Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Guide Here are some teasers: How Tos How To: Add a New Developer To Your Project in Visual Studio 2005 Team...(read more)

VSTS Guidance Resources On Codeplex

alikl — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:57:00 GMT

patterns&practices VSTS Guidance http://www.codeplex.com/VSTSGuidance

Guidance Index

patterns&practices VSTS Performance Testing Guidance http://www.codeplex.com/PerfTesting

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Guidance

How Tos

Microsoft Team Foundation Server Branching Guidance http://www.codeplex.com/BranchingGuidance

PDF Version of "Team Foundation Server Branching Guidance"
View Entire Article html

VSTS community wiki http://www.codeplex.com/TeamSystemCommunity

Resource Lists

patterns & practices Guidance Explorer - The New Wave

alikl — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:57:00 GMT

Guidance Explorer is not only very powerful security (and performance) guidance tool - recently it met VSTS guidance launched on CodePlex.

To make the long story short, Guidance Explorer seems to serve as the solid framework to build and extend guidance on topics like Security and Performance Engineering, VSTS, and who knows what's next.

I'm test driving it for shopping guidance and rules and checklists for my wife, so before she goes for shopping I could generate customized views and generate word docs for her.

Enjoy

VSTS How To's - patterns&practices

alikl — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:47:00 GMT

It is not about what it does but how to use it (read this to understand the difference Driver's Guide vs. Owner's Manual )

VSTS Guidance

Check these comprehensive step-by-step walk through's with pictures:

Want to know how to integrate VSTS into your dev lifecycle? - read this Methodologies

Want to know how to accomplish specific activities like stress test? - read this Techniques

Want to know how to tweak VSTS - read this Visual Studio 2005

And most important - enjoy (guaranteed)!