October 2008 - Posts
Happy Halloween! Here’s a picture of me and Beth Massi (i’ll let you guess which is which) at her annual Halloween party . An unsuspecting Agent Smith showed up, but he didn’t know martial arts, which was anti-climatic consider this Trinity does. One
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Going back to basics with some tool windows I haven’t covered yet. Pressing Ctrl+Shift+C in the General Development Settings will open the Class View. The Class View is in theory a lighter weight version of the Object Browser (your scope search is limited
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According to some blog posts, this tip should save you some time using Visual Studio 2005. I’ve asked around and I think it loads Visual Studio 2008 slightly faster because there’s no pause for you to read the splash screen. from cmd line, run devenv.exe
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And some more pictures… In the slides preceding Monday’s keynote, my name was shown for the book signing. It was quite moving to see my name in front of 6,000 people. The book signing And some CodePlex supporters visiting the booth. Below is Tracy
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The best tips come from customer questions that I can actually answer. In England (or was it Mississippi, it’s been a long summer), a customer had asked me about what to do when at home he’s got a single monitor display, but at work has a multiple monitor
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I told myself as soon as i finished uploading these pictures, i can grab breakfast. Hopefully i have just enough energy to make this understandable. =D I attended the WomenBuild event and sat next to Frank Arrigo . I had to take pictures of the
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Alongside project templates, you can create item templates within the same File - Export Template wizard. I won’t spend too much time here as much of this information is repeat from how project templates work. Instead of choosing Project Template, choose
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All the tips thus far have been for project templates created by you or someone else. Let’s say you want to make a modification to an installed template, like remove some of the default ones from appearing. Or even adding one to the Program Files directory
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It’s a option, so it is fair game as a tip. Hey, they all can’t be winners, you know. =) Although I find it interesting that it is referred to as a generic explorer window. Are there other types of explorer windows that you can use to override Windows
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On the File – Export Template Wizard, there’s the option to Automatically import the template into Visual Studio. Let’s say that you uncheck this and want to import your project. To me at least, it isn’t completely clear what your next steps would
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On page 2 of the File – Export Template wizard, you can specify several options. The first of these is how to set the icon. Now when you go to New Project Dialog, you can see the icon: I should never be hired as a graphics designer. Technorati Tags: VS2005Tip
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http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-15-visual-studio-tips-and-running-an-agile-team-with-sara-ford/ Wow, was i tired at the beginning or what? I was in the middle of my southern speaking tour, driving all around the south at all hours of the day
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In yesterday’s example, the default puts the project template in the root folder for that language. If you want to put the template into a specific sub-node, or if you want to create a new sub-node, navigate to the Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates
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Let’s say that you want to share your newly created project template with your team. Tell them to go to Tools – Options – Projects And Solutions - General They can place the .vstemplate file at this location and then open the New Project Dialog. See tomorrow’s
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Starting in Visual Studio 2005, you can create your own custom project templates to appear alongside the VS-installed project templates. First, you’ll want to create a new project and set it up exactly like you want it to appear when you do File – New
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I just got the first two copies hot of the press , a phrase I’ve never used in its original context before. Below is a picture of my editor Melissa von Tschudi-Sutton and me with the very first two copies in the last day of sunlight in Seattle. Yes, I
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On the File menu, under New, there’s the Project From Existing Code command. This brings up a wizard that walks you through creating the project from whatever codebase you point it at. Walking through a VB project, you specify where the files live and
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For the same reason it merits its own command in the Solution Explorer context menu, it merits its own Tip of the Day. And if anyone knows what that reason is, please let me know! =) To view the build order for your Solution, you can right-click on either
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For managed projects, you can control their build order via the IDE. Right-click on the project in the Solution Explorer, and select Project Dependencies. This will pop up the Project Dependencies dialog. Now you can say who depends on whom, but if you
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This tip originates from the MSBuild team as a way to edit your MSBuild project file within the IDE to customize your build. But if you have any reason for editing your project file (including a C++ project), and don’t want to go to Notepad, this tip
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Just found out about this tip the other day. Works for both 2005 and 2008, although I haven’t tested 2005 myself. Warning: To enable this tip, you’ll need to modify your registry settings. Follow the instructions below at your own risk. Under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0
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And after 7 years, I’m still learning something new about the New Project Dialog. I have to have seen this one before, but I must have forgotten all about it. I guess I see the New Project Dialog much more often when I do not have a solution open. There’s
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My 2 talks, plus my 20 Visual Studio Tips in 7 minutes micro-talk, are available at http://www.microsoft.com/uk/remix08/agenda.aspx I highly recommend checking out the 7 minute presentation, but don’t take my word for it. Thanks to Guy Smith-Ferrier for
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Under Tools – Options – Projects and Solutions – Build and Run , there’s the MSBuild project build output verbosity combo box. This controls how much info you want to see in the Output window. In the examples below, I’m building a simple console application.
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Finally, at long last, the Save Waveland Scholarship Fund was announced today at the local college. Here’s the official press release: http://www.mgccc.edu/news/book_raises_scholarship_money_for_MGCCC_students.php And some pictures:
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I was going to start this blog entry off with the definition of Irony, but the more I read about it, the less this felt like Irony and more like Coincidence. We’ll just pretend I never read the definition of Irony. Oh the Irony! I’m on tip #328 and just
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Although the documentation for this option says that this applies only to VC, it seems to work for me within C#, VB, and C++. Maybe because I have them all in one solution? Not sure. under Tools – Options – Projects and Solutions – Build and Run , there’s
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Say it with me now, “Under Tools – Options – Projects and Solutions – Build And Run ” there’s the option On Run, when projects are out of date: you can specify when to build, or have VS prompt you. This option is only for Visual C++ projects. If you specify
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Under Tools – Options – Projects and Solutions – Build and Run , there’s the Only build startup projects and dependencies on Run. In the case you have a very, very large solution, and you want to build without rebuilding the entire world, you can
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