Habib Heydarian's Blog @ Microsoft

Like many folks, after watching the BUILD keynote this morning, I couldn't wait to get home and install Windows 8 Developer Preview on my laptop. The instructions for installing Windows 8 are simple enough. The only fly in the ointment is that installing...

Like any software product, with every new release of Visual Studio, we add numerous new features to support additional scenarios, improve existing features based on customer feedback and occasionally, we remove some features based on a number of factors...

I was talking to someone the other day and he asked me whether Visual Studio has a tool to count the lines of code in an application. It occurred to me that others might be interested in the answer so I decided to blog about it. There is a tool called...

On Windows Vista, to install IIS 7.0 from the command line, you can use a tool called the Windows Package Manager (Pkgmgr.exe) . For example, the command line for installing IIS 7. 0 on Windows Vista might look something like the following depending on...

One of the most talked about features in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is IntelliTrace. In a nutshell, IntelliTrace allows a developer to record the application execution and play it back. Using IntelliTrace, a developer can do some cool things like step...

When installing Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1, you might run across the following error during the readiness check: Error    [ Reporting ] TF255275: The following Web service for SQL Server Reporting Services could not be accessed...

Last weekend, I spent a good 30 minutes trying to figure out why I wasn't hitting a breakpoint in a method. Admittedly, I wasn't very familiar with the code since I hadn't written it. It turned out that the method wasn't being called from anywhere, so...

One of the new features that we have added in Visual Studio Team System 2010 is the ability to create a new UML Sequence Diagram as well as generate one from existing code. I'm not going to go into too much detail on what a UML sequence diagram is since...

One of the most popular features in the Visual Studio debugger is the ability to edit code during a debug session and have the changes apply without having to stop the debugger, recompile the application and then run the application to verify the changes...

In my previous post Getting Started with Visual Studio 2010 IntelliTrace: Hello IntelliTrace! , I described how to use the new IntelliTrace feature in Visual Studio 2010 to debug an application. But there's more to IntelliTrace. IntelliTrace also allows...

In a previous post , I explained how to use Code Analysis in Visual Studio 2010 to detect dead code. In that post, I described the following five Code Analysis rules in detail and how these set of rules form the basis for detecting dead code: Private...

When you try to install Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 (drvupdate-amd64.exe) on Windows Server 2008 R2, you'll probably end up with the following cryptic error message which isn't very helpful: Windows Mobile Device Center Driver Update -----------...

In one of my earlier blogs, I introduced a new feature in Visual Studio 2010 called the Historical Debugger that truly transforms how you debug applications. In this blog and subsequent blogs, I’m going to cover in depth how and when to use the Historical...

One of the questions that comes up regularly on newsgroups is "How do I skip over a section of my code in the Visual Studio debugger?" The answer depends on the meaning of the word "skip" but in general, there are three ways that you...

Quite often, one or more developers need to collaborate on a bug to figure out the root cause of the problem. This collaboration is typically done using tools like email, bug tracking system (e.g. TFS) or if the developers are collocated, they might work...

In Visual Studio Team System 2010, we've made a huge number of improvements to the Profiler. In case you didn't know that Visual Studio Team System has a Profiler, see the documentation on MSDN. One of the major improvements that we have made to the Profiler...

Often, developers partition their applications into separate Visual Studio solutions in order to make managing the complexity of the overall application easier. Sometimes, the reverse is true. That is, you may want to combine several existing solutions...

If you have used Visual Studio to write Windows Mobile applications, you might have come across the following error message when you press F5 to start the debugger: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- Unable...

One of the questions that comes up about debugging dump files is how to debug a dump file that was created from a 64-bit process. The reason why this question comes up is because Visual Studio itself is a 32-bit application and therefore, cannot debug...

NetCFSvcUtil.exe is the analogous of Svcutil.exe but for devices. You can use it to generate a WCF client from a WCF service. You can then consume the generated client code in a Windows Mobile application . Unfortunately, the current version of NetCFSvcUtil...

During the last couple of months, I've covered the Historical Debugger extensively. If you are interested in learning more about this new feature in Visual Studio 2010, the following blog entries should help you get started. An in depth look at the Historical...

WPF applications make writing rich client applications much easier but the main drawback is that debugging XAML is difficult. The Visual Studio debugger is very good at debugging imperative languages but when it comes to debugging declarative technologies...

DinnerNow.net 3.1 follows in the footsteps of the 3.0 release of DinnerNow.net by adding support for new Microsoft operating systems and platforms. New in DinnerNow 3.1 is support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Also, DinnerNow 3.1 adds support...

On the Visual Studio debugger team, one of the areas where we regularly receive feedback is when breakpoints don't work. Furthermore, some of the error messages that the debugger displays when a breakpoint fails are generic so it might be hard to diagnose...

Feature: Historical Debugger In my previous post, I mentioned that one of the key scenarios that my team is working on is eliminating the "No Repro" scenario. Let’s take a look at what this actually means. Let’s say that you’re a developer and...