August 2005 - Posts
I just got confirmation tonight that my family in Waveland, MS (my hometown) survived the direct hit from Hurricane Katrina. My aunt and uncle drove into the Mississippi Gulf Coast somehow from Dallas and were able to get a message back to us. My mom's
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Update 3: 9/3/2005: For every 1 comment left on my blog, i'm getting 5 emails via "contact me". Unless you know me or know one of my friends, i honestly don't have any information for you, so i'm going to start posting all inquiries for love-ones on this
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Today’s tip comes from “some cool dev” who wrote the new Window Management features for Visual Studio 2005. At the end of the File Tab Channel, there’s a drop-down arrow and a close ‘x’ button. If you press the drop-down arrow, you’ll get a menu of all
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An interesting customer question came my way about how to set a string to null in the Watch Window in Visual Studio .NET 2003. Note: this issue does not reproduce in Visual Studio 2005. If you try to set a string to null in the Watch Window, Visual Studio
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Just a little background on Tip of the Week… Sean and I started “Tip of the Day” on my blog back in March 2005 focusing on Editor features and functionality. It was so successful that I started expanding it to other feature areas of the IDE. Now that
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Graham, our 1 year old sheltie, had the best day of his life at http://www.ewetopia.com where they train dogs to do sheep herding. They will do herd dog demonstrations at the upcoming Puyallup Fair, in case you just want to watch. The session was 10 minutes
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It’s the pre-black belt exam, or what’s called the “pre-shodan” exam, that’s coming up in three weeks. <faints> The pre-shodan exam is when the head sensei of the dojo grades the students, and those that pass go onto the real black belt exam. And
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Now that you know the different between solution and project configurations, let’s move on to the solution and project platforms. Once again a solution platform is just the collection of all its projects’ platforms. If you want all of your projects to
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As of a month ago, I’ve officially transferred to the Project and Solution team under VS Core! I have now been on every feature team under VS Core back when we were called the VS Environment team. It’s awesome that I’ve been able to impact every part
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What are Project Templates Project templates are sample projects you can use to create new projects, ie Windows Applications, Class libraries, Websites, and so forth. For Whidbey, templates are stored on disk as a single zip file (no longer multiple files
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Sweet… I’m going to PDC!! After missing out on the fun at TechEd, I made sure it was crystal clear that I want to attend conferences, like PDC, TechEd, etc. And it worked! I will be down there the entire week. I’m not certain exactly when and where I’m
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With a project opened, go to Build – Configuration Manager to follow along. A solution configuration is just the collection of all its projects’ configurations. For example, let’s suppose we’re working with a solution that contains 2 projects. Each project
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Under Tools – Options – Projects and Solutions – General, there are options for both Always show solution and Show advanced build configurations. Both options will affect the menu structure, changing which items appear or are enabled. The Show advanced
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You learn something new every day, and this is what I learned today – Linked Items. Even in Everett, you can add files as linked items to your project. To add, first create a project and open the Add Existing Item dialog. You’ll notice the “Add” button
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My husband and I awoke early Saturday morning hearing a painful yelp with a huge thud from under the bed. We shot up and saw our sheltie plastered to the bedroom door. My honest to g-d first thought was, “OMG, there are really monsters under the bed,
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Just under Tools – Options – Projects and Solutions on the General page, you can specify the default locations for new projects created by the New Project Dialog. Happy Visual Studio’ing! VSTips
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I’d recommend using the Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt from All Programs – Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 – Visual Studio Tools, so you don’t have to worry about setting your PATH properly. If you do a Devenv /? From the command prompt, you’ll get a
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These tips apply for all testers, not just Microsofties. What other tips would you include in this list? Bend over backwards to help your dev You’re going to be breaking his/her code for the rest of your careers together, so you want to have a great working
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I almost stayed up last night to watch the landing, but fell asleep. Maybe tonight I’ll stay up to 2 am. I was in that category of people reliving their childhood during the Columbia disaster. I was 6 or 7 years old (in the first grade) when the Challenger
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