Under Tools – Options – Projects And Solutions – Build And Run , there’s the Maximum Number Of Parallel Project Builds edit box. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/30/did-you-know-only-vc-supports-parallel...

Reshmi, a SDET on the Web Development Tools team, is running a new Tips and Tricks blog for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer tips. This is great to see, since I constantly get Visual Web Developer questions that I can’t answer. http://blogs.msdn...

You can figure at a global level, across all languages (VB, VC, and C# are the ones i’ve tested) in your solution, This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/29/did-you-know-how-to-configure-how-and-when-the-ide-saves-your-files...

One of the hardest things about working at Microsoft is to see the cool applications people develop never get released. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/26/matts-snippet-designer-finally-sees-the-light-of-day/

And last but not least, there was the HTML Visualizer… This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/26/did-you-know-you-can-use-the-html-visualizer-to-view-html-322/

Let’s say you have a more interesting string that contains xml, say one of the code snippet files. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/25/did-you-know-you-can-use-the-xml-visualizer-to-view-xml-321/

At the bottom of the Text Visualizer dialog box, This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/24/did-you-know-the-text-visualizer-supports-word-wrap-320/

Let’s say you have a long string, maybe a SQL connection string or just some tabular data (or data separated by a space as shown below), and you need to view the entire string. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/23/did-you...

Last week, my career-long dream of becoming an international speaker came true. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/22/remembering-remix08-uk-3-talks-in-brighton-england-last-week/

If you just quickly want to know what exception has been caught, This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/22/did-you-know-you-can-add-exception-to-the-watch-window-to-see-the-caught-exception-318/

If you start the debugger (F5) for a console application, and you don't have a This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/19/did-you-know-if-you-do-a-ctrlf5-on-a-console-application-the-console-stays-open-317/

It’s times like these i wish i lived closer to home to help promote local events and activities. But for now, blogging will have to do, even if it is from a speaker room in England The MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow is coming to Hattiesburg, Mississippi...

I've always wondered this, but finally took the time to ask Dustin Campbell when I met with him last week for Debugger tips. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/18/did-you-know-whats-the-difference-between-the-autos-window-and-the...

To have only known about this back in the day... hopefully this brings someone the joy I missed out on. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/17/did-you-know-how-to-get-the-find-source-dialog-back-instead-of-the-there-is-no-source...

I’m speaking at ReMix on Thursday in England, where I will demo This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/16/speaking-at-remix-on-thursday-%e2%80%93-first-international-flight-in-nearly-15-years%e2%80%a6/

Whenever you open a DataTip for an instance of an object, you'll see This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/16/did-you-know-how-to-create-an-object-id-to-keep-track-of-your-objects-314/

If you are using VB, you can add the keyword Stop in your code to suspend execution. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/15/did-you-know-you-can-break-the-debugger-without-using-breakpoints-313/

I just noticed how the tooltip for the Start icon changes from Debug.Start (F5) this blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/12/did-you-know-theres-no-command-for-continuing-the-debugger-312/

“All mixed up you don't know what to do… Next thing you turn around and find the person is you…” with apologies to the band 311 . I recall learning Step Out once I got to the Visual Studio team. Again, it was a glorious moment...

Back in my Visual J++ days, I didn’t know about F11. To compensate, I would This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/10/did-you-know-you-can-press-f11-to-step-into-a-function-310/

For those who haven’t memorized these keyboard shortcuts yet, here you go. this blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/09/did-you-know-you-can-press-f10-to-step-over-a-function-309/

I never paid any attention to this command until I start writing this tip. I’m sure i’ve used it before, but This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/08/did-you-know-you-can-press-altnum-to-show-next-statement-308/

Whenever you execute the QuickWatch command with a variable selected in the editor or This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/05/did-you-know-you-can-quickly-view-other-variables-in-the-quickwatch-window-307/

On the Quick Watch window, there’s a button to add a variable to the Watch window. This blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/04/did-you-know%e2%80%a6-you-can-add-variables-to-the-watch-window-from-the-quickwatch-window-%e2%80%93...

In the QuickWatch window, you can use the Expression combo box to type in an expression. this blog post has moved to http://saraford.net/2008/09/03/did-you-know-you-can-reevaluate-expressions-in-the-quickwatch-window-305/