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April 2010 - Posts

• Using Windows 7 System Restore

  Recently I ran into issues with various versions of Visual Studio 2010 release candidates / betas / rtm for Expression Blend 4. I accidentally installed the RTM version of Blend when I was still only using RC version of Visual Studio 2010. This led to Read More... Posted 28 April 2010 14:54 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows API, Gotcha, Howto, Windows 7

• Removing regionalisation from Resharper 5.0 code clean up

  To stop resharper 5.0 code clean up from embracing all your code in #region #endregion tags, remove the <Group> xml nodes from the Type Members Layout settings as follows. Note, don't close the </Patterns> tag after pasting in the xml as otherwise Read More... Posted 28 April 2010 12:13 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, Visual Studio, Gotcha, Howto, Resharper

• Working with Git as your source control system

  In this post I'll be blogging about my experiences with working with Git as our source control system for the project I’m currently working on. Reasons for choosing Git One of the reasons we chose Git over TFS was it’s ability to be able to quickly create Read More... Posted 22 April 2010 11:42 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Howto, Git

• Reset window layout in Visual Studio and exported settings

  Recently I discovered that the reset window layout menu option in most flavours of visual studio (at least 2008 and 2010), respects the layout that your workspace was in at the time of exporting your environment settings. This is down to the fact that Read More... Posted 19 April 2010 14:11 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, .NET, C# 2.0, Visual Studio, Gotcha, .NET 3.5, Howto

• How to have resharper ignore MSpec tests

  My colleague David Wynne and I have recently been evaluating MSpec tests for use on our project, and we were finding the syntax checking from both resharper and stylecop for resharper a little cumbersome when writing these tests. To have this syntax checking Read More... Posted 01 April 2010 10:03 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments