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Refactor String Resources to Resx Files in Vb.Net and C#

Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 10:43 AM by jledgard
Last week our team released the 1.0 beta of a new refactoring menu option for Visual Studio 2005. Bertan, the developer, has the details on his blog . The Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the Read More...
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Creating a simple multi-install package for your customers

Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:46 PM by jledgard
If you've downloaded something like the "Google Pack" in the past and wanted something like that for your companies products. Something that, with a small footprint, lets users pick and choose a suite of components to install, downloads the requested Read More...
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What makes for successful source code releases?

Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 7:55 PM by jledgard
We’re preparing to release the source code to the latest Power Toys for Visual Studio and the question has come up a few times. What makes for successful source code releases? Specifically… what makes for successful releases if you’d like to encourage Read More...
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Why would you choose the Developer Solutions team?

Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:27 AM by jledgard
Why would you choose to work for the Developer Solutions? See, we're currently hiring Devs, a Dev lead, and PMs and I'm sometimes put into situations where I have to sell our team to great canidates over other positions. Here's a video that gives you Read More...
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See cool tools on Channel9; Meet the people you could be working with!

Posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:32 AM by jledgard
A great deal of job satisfaction comes from ones like of the folks they work with. Check out the sprint retrospective we shot 6 weeks ago for Channel9 . If the job content sounds like an interest match and you'd like to subject yourself to working with Read More...
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Customer Love for the TFS Admin Tool

Posted Wednesday, March 01, 2006 5:03 PM by jledgard
Via http://spaces.msn.com/wesmacdonald/Blog/cns!25108A9ADA96C9D7!141.entry I was saved today. After configuring users in Team System using three different interfaces, I thought there must be a better way since I could not believe that it could normal Read More...
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How to lend a hand to NDoc and other non-MS Developer Tools

Posted Wednesday, February 01, 2006 1:21 PM by jledgard
I was forwarded an interesting suggestion today from the Product Feedback Center. Here it is: Put some developers on the open source nDoc project We have used the XML documentation system with our C# code. Full integration with VS 2005 and .NET 2.0 is Read More...
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New VBCommenter Release (1.2.5 RC1) by the Community

Posted Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:52 PM by jledgard
Background: The VBCommenter is an addin for VS 2003 that gives you the ability to automatically generate XML comment headers in the VB .NET editor similar to what the C# editor automatically generates. It will also generate the XML comment file to go Read More...
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Upcoming VSCmdShell Addin Project Roadmap

Posted Friday, July 09, 2004 1:33 PM by jledgard
So far I have a bunch of downloads and some feedback for the 0.8 release . I've also been asked what my plans moving forward are. I'm not a fan of dates. The unpredictability of writing software is bad enough without having to account for when I have Read More...
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But wouldn't it be great if... VSCmdShell Progress

Posted Saturday, May 15, 2004 1:24 PM by jledgard
I spent Thursday night with the VSCmdShell code. Having just released v0.6 that now defaults to the VS environment paths I was determined to clean some stuff up before the next release. I refactored the code a bunch to make it more readable, I made issuing Read More...
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Tips for Using Macros in Visual Studio

Posted Tuesday, April 27, 2004 10:13 AM by jledgard
Over @ the Powertoys blog I posted an article with tips for using Macros inside Visual Studio . I really just wanted it to be a simple list of instructions that walked people through how they could use the macro code posted to the blog. I ended up walking Read More...
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Write an Add-In; Win Cool Prizes

Posted Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:19 AM by jledgard
What great timing. Just after we started the PowerToys Blog Roy announced he was organizing a Add-in/Macro coding contest ! You may have noticed the added decoraction on the side of my blog if you read it in Web form. I love it when stars align. I'm hoping Read More...
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Check out the Powertoys Weblog! (You can never have enough tools)

Posted Wednesday, April 21, 2004 11:06 AM by jledgard
Almost a year ago we launched a static Powertoys page on gotdotnet. Today that page is no longer static! We're now feeding http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/ide with live content from the new Powertoys weblog . Overtime this site will become a categorized Read More...
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I can’t leave some things alone

Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:01 PM by jledgard
Visualizers in Whidbey are going to be cool, but you can do some awesome debug customizations in VS.NET 2003 today with the VSTweak powertoy. Check out this thread for more info. I agree with Darcy, there is no Software Crisis , unless you are a person Read More...
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Visual Studio .Net 2003 Customized Settings Explained Further

Posted Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:06 AM by jledgard
I’ve had a request to explain further where Visual Studio settings are stored in VS .NET 2003 to make it easier for people trying to copy settings from machine to machine. In this post I’ll break down where a lot of these settings are and Read More...
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