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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.

Setting the design time datacontext in visual studio 2010 in your xaml file, makes intellitype work for a deep traversal of any of your view model properties... You can set the data context type to your view mode, and then data binding to your view model becomes as easy as using the property grid... <UserControl ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Part 1 I discussed how you can stream windows media from windows 7 machine using windows media player 12 to another. Here I'll show you how you can open an rtsp stream in a WPF windows application using the VLC media player WPF control (http://vlcdotnet.codeplex.com/). N.B. Up until the time of writing this post, the <MediaElement> that ...

Alt+Break to solve this in VS2008 More info here...  http://vidmar.net/weblog/archive/2007/04/17/Strangest-error-No-files-were-found-to-look-in.-Find.aspx  

Now that Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1 are available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads, we’d like to announce our broad plans for Scrum for Team System. The next release of Scrum for Team System will be v3.0 and like the prior releases our aim is to ship as soon as possible after release of Team ...

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 |   ...

We’ve just pushed the latest build of StyleCop for ReSharper live. This brings it up to date with ReSharper 4.5 RTM and fixes a few bugs. We’ve also change the build number to align it with ReSharper to avoid confusion. Release notes below: Feature Complete Build of StyleCop for ReSharper. Compatible with: ReSharper 4.5 ...