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Microsoft released a new version of StyleCop - v4.3.1.3 last week and so we've just released a new compatible version of StyleCop for ReSharper. 

I've been working with Microsoft Blueprints for the last couple of weeks, to see if it's a suitable deployment vector for some of our reusable IP and Engineering Practices. Blueprints is part of the Software Factories vision, it evolves and includes the great work already done with the Guidance Automation Toolkit, the DSL Tools and Visual Studio ...

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 ...

A colleague of mine this week showed me his code coverage as being over 94% for his production code, which impressed me so much, it spurred me on to ensure that all code paths in my code from now on go blue instead of red when testing with Team coverage, using the Test driven .NET addin for visual studio 2008. Not sure what I'm on about, then ...

http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/000286.html Hack #1 - Stopping Team Explorer from connecting on Visual Studio 2005 Start-up Add a DWORD value called "AutoLoadServer" under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\TeamFoundation.  Zero means do not reconnect automatically. I first read about this setting over at Tim ...

Use this tool to enforce comments being added by developers when the check-in their code to a tfs source repository http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/teamsystem/archive/2006/08/22/3417.aspx More information can be found here about how to create check-in policies ...

I'm off to PDC next along with Colin, Paulo and Mick (no blog!) . I’m pretty excited about learning more about WCF and WPF and all those session related to Team System (current and next). Must remember to fill out the PDC Bingo page before I go.

A slick shortcut I stumbled across while doing some hobby coding at the weekend. Add a new type to your class, in the code below it's an interface I want to implement. Place the cursor over word and a little Smart Tag indicator appears: Hit SHIFT-ALT-F10 and the smart tag menu appears with the option to add an import directive for the unknown ...

I've updated my Lithium based XMLVisualizer for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. You can download the updated source from my ProjectDistributor workspace. Updated 06/11/2006: If you are trying to locate the Netron Project see my post "What happened to the Netron Project?"

This post has been superseded by the following post: Conchango Xml Visualizer for Visual Studio 2005 (RTM) Updated 06/11/2006: If you are trying to locate the Netron Project see my post "What happened to the Netron Project?" About a month ago, I stumbled across Scott Nonnenberg's article “Debugger Visualizers on VS 2005 ...