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To create this, just download the inf file for 2005 from Scott Hansleman’s blog post here… http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioCommandPromptHereAndSearchUnknownFileExtensions.aspx  and then alter it in notepad for all references to 2005 to 2008, and the path to the vsvars32.bat. Then any folder that you select you’ll see a ...

Copy a stack trace to your clipboard, open the resharper stack trace explorer, and hit Ctrl+E, T. Once you’ve done this the lines reported in the stack trace become hyperlinks to the files in your project.

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 under the general settings tree view node in the export dialog, the Window Layouts option is ...

On my current project I wanted to do a little pit stop after our 1st sprint to ensure that the solution was running as optimally as possible. We’ve fleshed out the solution structure and have pulled together all the core pieces of technology – so within Visual Studio, the solution looks like: Solution ‘MyApp’ +---Data |   ...

As I mentioned in my last post I've been working with Microsoft Blueprints, one of the problems I encountered was trying to come up with a generic, reusable way of working with T4 Templates (T4 is the used by Blueprints for all code generation as T4  is now integrated into Visual Studio 2008) to generate the code fragments. I created ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete.  In my previous post about StyleCop for ReSharper I said that I'd be posting updates about the tool to my personal blog rather than my EMC Consulting blog, but unfortunately there was a hardware failure on the server that hosts my personal blog and I've not had a chance to get things ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete.  A huge amount of work has been done over the last month since the previous release. We've added a new Quick Fix and Code Clean-Up Module frameworks which have helped us develop over 42 new fixes in addition to the 21 Quick Fixes we produced in the previous release. We've also given ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete. While I was on holiday Microsoft released a new version of Microsoft Source Analysis for C#, in the new version - 4.3 - it has been re-branded to it's original internal Microsoft name - StyleCop. There was a bit of a backlash against the initial release of Source Analysis - a few members of ...

Recently I had an issue where aspnet_regiis.exe -i was not updating the home directory configuration for my web root in Windows XP SP2. To resolve this I used the following commands, suggested by my colleague Mark Mann, instead to first remove all script maps to any version of ASP.NET from the specified path recursively, and then reinstall ...

See here http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2008/04/29/hacking-visual-studio-to-use-more-than-2gigabytes-of-memory.aspx