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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:16 AM

How to get the active Team Foundation Server and Project from an Add-In

Ed Hintz posted "How to Write a Team Foundation Version Control Add-in for Visual Studio" which is a great guide to writing an add-in to integrate with Team Foundation version control. I won't repeat that info her. If you want to do something that is
Posted by hippietim | 4 Comments
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11:22 AM

Flashing Dialogboxes

This example demonstrates how to flash a dialog in the taskbar after performing a long running operation from the command line. A good example of how this is useful is in the VS Team Foundation version control toolset. Naturally, it includes a command
Posted by hippietim | 0 Comments
Monday, March 27, 2006 3:10 PM

Overcoming a .NET ListView CheckBoxes quirk

In the Visual Studio Team Foundation version control UI, we display your pending changes in a ListView control. That ListView has CheckeBoxes set to true as we allow you to perform a variety of operations on the checked items. At the same time we want
Posted by hippietim | 1 Comments
Friday, March 24, 2006 11:41 AM

Give the .NET loader a hand - how to load assemblies from VS PrivateAssemblies

This program demonstrates how to use the AppDomain.AssemblyResolve event to help the .NET loader get assemblies loaded that it can't find. The VS Team Foundation edition ships with a number of assemblies you may want to reference in your own apps. Most
Posted by hippietim | 3 Comments
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:50 AM

WinForms ListView Performance - ListView collections

The WinForms ListView has a few very handy collections - CheckedItems and CheckedIndices. SelectedItems is a collection of the ListViewItems that are selected. SelectedIndices is a collection of the indexes of the ListViewItems that are selected. Those
Posted by hippietim | 1 Comments
Monday, March 20, 2006 5:56 PM

WinForms ListView Performance - Initializing checked states

CheckBoxes in a WinForms ListView are of course a bit simpler to use than dealing the underlying Win32 control directly. WinForms deals with the ListView structures and the WM_NOTIFY messages. Of course this comes at a cost. Here's a simple demonstration
Posted by hippietim | 2 Comments
Monday, March 20, 2006 4:05 PM

WinForms ListView Performance

While working on improving the performance of the version control UI for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, I encountered a number of potential problems with the WinForms ListView control. As it turns out, adding items to a ListView can be VERY expensive
Posted by hippietim | 4 Comments
Thursday, February 03, 2005 12:41 PM

I hate magic

C++ magic in particular. What's wrong with this code? #define BLANK_IF_NULL(_s_) ((_s_) ? (_s_) : (TEXT(""))) We had a macro like this in MSN Explorer that would ensure you didn't pass a NULL string around. Well there's lots of things wrong with the code
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