Sara Ford's Weblog
My adventures embracing open source on CodePlex and at Microsoft
If you ever noticed the IDE Navigator get stuck, we now have a workaround. Thanks to Eric Carr for...
Date: 11/30/2012
They pull me back in. But in all fairness, I was the one who asked to be pulled back in. My game...
Date: 10/04/2012
For the majority of you reading my blog that don’t live in NorCal, you can watch the events live on...
Date: 10/04/2010
Seems that whenever I bring my Windows Phone with me on a bike ride, something unusual happens. I’m...
Date: 09/23/2010
Today’s post comes from Guest Blogger Erik Ejlskov Jensen, SQL Server Compact MVP, @ErikEJ Toolbox...
Date: 09/21/2010
Today marks my 9th year at Microsoft. Next year, I’ll collect my second Final Fantasy crystal. I...
Date: 09/17/2010
Control when Solution Explorer syncs to the current file I’ve given many talks on Visual Studio, and...
Date: 09/16/2010
For those outside of Northern California or can’t make these dates, you can watch our launch event...
Date: 09/15/2010
Use your Emacs commands once again! If you have opened the Tools – Options – Keyboard page, looking...
Date: 09/14/2010
Earlier this week, I decided to rematch the clock to demo 101 VS Tips in 55 minutes with O’Reilly...
Date: 09/03/2010
I wanted to pause for a brief second to remember the 53 people in my hometown who lost their lives 5...
Date: 08/30/2010
For you all in the North California area, we’re hosting an all-day event in Silicon Valley on...
Date: 08/24/2010
Last week I blogged about my challenge to do 101 Visual Studio Tips in just 55 minutes, and if I...
Date: 06/17/2010
I’ve been known to talk fast when I’m excited in my Visual Studio presentations, and maybe even a...
Date: 06/01/2010
Recursively Collapse Nodes in the Solution Explorer! The Visual Studio IDE team has heard a lot of...
Date: 05/13/2010
Increase the Readability of your Find in Files results! One of the first tips I always demo in my...
Date: 05/02/2010
Get your new IntelliSense features in the XAML Editor! If you’ve grown accustomed to the new Pascal...
Date: 04/09/2010
Add Guidelines to your code! Over 5 years ago, I wrote my very first tip about Visual Studio on...
Date: 04/05/2010
Update: You can watch the video of my TechDays Belgium presentation at...
Date: 03/30/2010
I have waited 6 years to write this blog post. We did it Sean! We did it! =D Get Visual Studio Tips...
Date: 03/25/2010
Speaks a thousand words with images! The image insertion tool allows you to drag and drop images...
Date: 03/18/2010
The Visual Studio Color Theme Editor provides you with a central location to control all your IDE...
Date: 03/11/2010
Go over to the Visual Studio Gallery, and you’ll find almost 500 extensions available for Visual...
Date: 03/11/2010
Installing Visual Studio extensions is really quite simple. Install via Extension Manager This is...
Date: 03/11/2010
Right before I left CodePlex, I filmed my last Iteration Planning Meeting with the team to give you...
Date: 03/09/2010
On Wednesday night, I spoke at the Greater New Orleans .NET User Group https://www.gnonug.org/....
Date: 02/12/2010
I’m sitting here in the Memphis airport at the terminal gate for New Orleans. Having gone 17 weeks...
Date: 02/06/2010
While cleaning out my office in preparation for my big move to California, I ran across my Agile...
Date: 02/04/2010
In January 2006, nearly 4 years ago to the day, I created my first account on CodePlex, when the...
Date: 02/01/2010
https://mymercurialproject.codeplex.com Read our announcement:...
Date: 01/22/2010
In a follow up to my original post on how I learned to program manage an agile team, I’ve put...
Date: 01/21/2010
I promised on Twitter to write a blog post explaining why “kata” was the wrong word for the “coding...
Date: 01/17/2010
Zain Naboulsi, a Developer Evangelist, has started the Tip of the Day series for Visual Studio 2010....
Date: 01/11/2010
Just like the kiwi bird down here in New Zealand, I proved that I too am flightless. The 7 minute...
Date: 09/15/2009
Thanks for coming to today’s session! As I’ve said (or about to say), don’t take notes! Here are all...
Date: 09/10/2009
The Channel 9 team recently met with me to discuss “The State of the CodePlex” as I like to call it....
Date: 09/07/2009
Going through my folder of my blog “contact me” emails, I came across this question. I like tricking...
Date: 08/27/2009