This is a multi-part series, you can find the other parts here: Understanding IntelliTrace Part I: What the @#$% is IntelliTrace? Understanding IntelliTrace Part II: Where Do I Use IntelliTrace? Understanding IntelliTrace Part III: IntelliTrace Events Understanding IntelliTrace Part IV: IntelliTrace...

This is a multi-part series, you can find the other parts here: Understanding IntelliTrace Part I: What the @#$% is IntelliTrace? Understanding IntelliTrace Part II: Where Do I Use IntelliTrace? Understanding IntelliTrace Part III: IntelliTrace Events Understanding IntelliTrace Part IV: IntelliTrace...

This is a multi-part series, you can find the other parts here: Understanding IntelliTrace Part I: What the @#$% is IntelliTrace? Understanding IntelliTrace Part II: Where Do I Use IntelliTrace? Understanding IntelliTrace Part III: IntelliTrace Events Understanding IntelliTrace Part IV: IntelliTrace...

This is a multi-part series, you can find the other parts here: Understanding IntelliTrace Part I: What the @#$% is IntelliTrace? Understanding IntelliTrace Part II: Where Do I Use IntelliTrace? Understanding IntelliTrace Part III: IntelliTrace Events Understanding IntelliTrace Part IV: IntelliTrace...

This is a multi-part series, you can find the other parts here: Understanding IntelliTrace Part I: What the @#$% is IntelliTrace? Understanding IntelliTrace Part II: Where Do I Use IntelliTrace? Understanding IntelliTrace Part III: IntelliTrace Events Understanding IntelliTrace Part IV: IntelliTrace...

This series is based on my IntelliTrace Workshop materials found here: http://sdrv.ms/UPUEE3 This is a multi-part series, you can find the other parts here: Understanding IntelliTrace Part I: What the @#$% is IntelliTrace? Understanding IntelliTrace Part II: Where Do I Use IntelliTrace? ...

  Folks, apologies for going dark for a few weeks but I have been heads down in the creation of some new IntelliTrace content.  I’ve put together a set of labs and slide decks that you can use to train yourself and/or train others on how to use this to full advantage.  You can find the...

[Reader Note: It looks like the formatting is cutting off the table on my main blog page. If you click on the link for the full story it will show in full.] I was talking with a customer the other day that uses Visual Studio Ultimate for many of its developers and just happened to mention the feature...

  Well it took me a while to get around to this one.  Sorry I’ve been offline folks.  I recently changed roles inside Microsoft and am now more directly focused on Visual Studio / TFS / Team Test / etc…  Okay, on to the blog post!   As you, hopefully, have heard by now Visual...

Windows:  CTRL + Double Click on Title Bar Menu:   Window | Dock As Tabbed Document Command:  Window.DockAsTabbedDocument SKU: Professional, Premium, Ultimate Versions:  2010, Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Code:  vstipEnv0065     In Visual Studio 2010 we introduced...

At long last it is with great pride that I can officially announce the availability our new book! After a year of work and a few interesting speed bumps along the way the book is now in stores world-wide. If you want the best price that I have seen so far, I suggest you go to Amazon: http://www.amazon...

SKU: Premium, Ultimate Versions: 2010 Code: vstipTool0140     In vstipTool139 (“Static Code Analysis – Simple Code Analysis”) we scratched the surface of code analysis for a simple class. Now we will begin to delve deeper into the extensive set of predefined rules available out-of-the-box in...

SKU: Premium, Ultimate Versions: 2008, 2010 Code: vstipTool0139   In my extensive travels with my good friend Clint Edmonson ( http://www.notsotrivial.net/blog/ ) we found yet another feature available in Visual that seems to be underutilized: Static Code Analysis. After some digging, we discovered...

Windows: Alt, V, M (press several times), Enter Menu: View | Other Windows | Code Metrics Results Command: View.CodeMetricsResults SKU: Premium, Ultimate Versions: 2008, 2010 Languages: C++ (managed only), C#, VB Code: vstipTool0138     The last top on our tour of the Code Metrics Results window...

Windows: Alt, V, M (press several times), Enter Menu: View | Other Windows | Code Metrics Results Command: View.CodeMetricsResults SKU: Premium, Ultimate Versions: 2008, 2010 Languages: C++ (managed only), C#, VB Code: vstipTool0137   NOTE: This tip requires that you are connected to a Team Foundation...

Windows: Alt, V, M (press several times), Enter Menu: View | Other Windows | Code Metrics Results Command: View.CodeMetricsResults SKU: Premium, Ultimate Versions: 2008, 2010 Languages: C++ (managed only), C#, VB Code: vstipTool0136   Previously I showed you how to filter your code metrics results...

Windows: Alt, V, M (press several times), Enter Menu: View | Other Windows | Code Metrics Results Command: View.CodeMetricsResults SKU: Premium, Ultimate Versions: 2008, 2010 Languages: C++ (managed only), C#, VB Code: vstipTool0135   Having explored code metrics in great detail in the previous...

SKU: Premium, Ultimate Versions: 2008, 2010 Code: vstipTool0134   At long last it is time to look at the final metric from the code metrics (see vstipTool0129, “Code Metrics - Calculating Metrics”): maintainability index. As with the other metrics it is best to start with some definitions. First...

SKU: Premium, Ultimate Versions: 2008, 2010 Code: vstipTool0133     As we continue looking at code metrics in Visual Studio (see vstipTool0129, “Calculating Metrics”), it’s time to look at class coupling. Class coupling also goes by the name Coupling Between Objects (CBO) as originally defined...

SKU: Premium, Ultimate Versions: 2008, 2010 Code: vstipTool0132   Continuing our examination of code metrics (see vstipTool0129, “Calculating Metrics”), it’s time to take a look at one of the metrics designed specifically for object-oriented analysis: Depth of Inheritance. Depth of inheritance,...

SKU: Premium, Ultimate Versions: 2008, 2010 Code: vstipTool0131   When working with code metrics, one of the least understood items seems to be cyclomatic complexity. Essentially, with cyclomatic complexity, higher numbers are “bad” and lower numbers are “good”. We use cyclomatic complexity to get...

SKU: Premium, Ultimate Versions: 2008, 2010 Code: vstipTool0130 [updated 5/15/2011: NASA has apparently removed the paper mentioned in this tip so I have added a new link] In vstipTool0129, “Code Metrics - Calculating Metrics,” I showed you how to obtain code metrics. Getting...

Windows: Alt, N, M (selected projects); Alt, N, L (solution); Alt, V, E, M, M, M, Enter (results) Menu: Analyze | Calculate Code Metrics For Selected Projects; Analyze | Calculate Code Metrics For Solution; View | Other Windows | Code Metric Results Command: Analyze.CalculateCodeMetricsforSelectedProjects;...

Versions: 2010 SP1 Code: vstipDebug0041   If you haven’t heard yet, you now have “basic support for unit tests that target the .NET Framework 3.5” in VS2010 with SP1.  There are a lot of reasons for adding this functionality but the main reason for putting it in is to support doing unit tests...

  The text versions of this video can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2010/05/08/use-a-datatip-to-edit-a-value-vstipdebug0026.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2010/02/02/pin-a-datatip-to-source-vstipdebug0005.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2010/02...