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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.

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 Resharper wont let you save this dialog even though the xml is invalid. Below is the ...

For those who like me didn’t know about this hidden gem: You can now set Tracepoints instead of just Breakpoints in VS2008. Here’s the difference between the two as described on MSDN: “Breakpoints tell the debugger that an application should break, pause execution, at a certain point. When a break occurs, your program and the ...

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

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 ...

EDIT: I became a SharpFellow and so this blog post has moved   The JetBrains team have been working hard at getting functionality and bug fixes into version 4.0 of ReSharper.  I'm very excited to see that it's finally reached RTM status and now fully supports Visual Studio 2008 and all the C# 3.0 goodness!  Go get it ...

For a blog detailing all the new features with.NET3.5 and Visual studio 2008, including javascript intellisense and //<reference> syntax,check out Scott Gu's blog post here.  http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-and-net-3-5-released.aspx

Was just reading on Scott Gu's blog about the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5, and came across an excellent description of the new extension methods feature in .Net 3.5. I have to say that until I saw this blog post, the quick overview from Mike Taulty at TechEd lost me somewhat as to what the purpose of these extension methods is, ...

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil.exe /DesignMode /u /ShowCallStack /Configuration="C:\Data\Merrick\Projects\Data Access Guidance Package\Data Access Guidance Package\Data Access Guidance Package\bin\Debug\\Data Access Guidance Package.xml" "C:\Data\Merrick\Projects\Data Access Guidance Package\Data Access ...

Symptom  Aspnet_compiler.exe fails to produce any content apart from the PreCompiledApp.config and the Bin folder. Reason  When you save a solution containing a web project (file based), it sets the physical path property Debug.AspNetCompiler.PhysicalPath for the aspnet_compiler. If you then subsequently save your ...