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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 editor performance fix running on a virtual machine
After I installed Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 (hot off the presses) in a VMWare virtual machine (you don't think I'd be crazy enough to install it on my real machine did you?) I noticed some serious performance problems with the text editor. It was very...

Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 4:57 PM by kevindente | 15 comment(s)

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Locating the active item in Solution Explorer
Scott Hanselman tweeted a link to Daniel Cazzulino's blog post about automatically synchronizing the Visual Studio Solution Explorer with the active item open in the editor. It's a great tip, but I personally have never been a fan of the Track Active...

Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:12 PM by kevindente | 9 comment(s)

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Is the Visual Studio 2008 Javascript debugger crippled?
Sadly, it appears the answer is "yes". Specifically, the debugger has a huge limitation - one that's been there since Visual Studio 2005 (maybe even 2003). You can't set a breakpoint on the first line of an anonymous function. Consider, for example, the...

Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:55 PM by kevindente | 3 comment(s)

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Visual Studio install asking for XP SP2 on Vista - the solution
A while back I blogged about a problem I had installing Visual Studio 2005 on a fresh Vista install - it complained about requiring Windows XP SP2. I never found a satisfactory explanation, but copying the DVD contents to the hard drive worked around...

Posted Thursday, August 09, 2007 9:56 PM by kevindente | 14 comment(s)

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Unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista
I've got a brand-spanking new, clean install of Vista on my laptop, and I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2005 on it. Unfortunately, I'm not getting very far. The installer always displays the following dialog, complaining that I don't...

Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:50 PM by kevindente | 60 comment(s)

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Visual Studio 2005 oopsie
I was working in Visual Studio 2005 the other day, and noticed something in a dialog box that I’ve seen a hundred (maybe a thousand) times before, and never noticed. It was in the “Add New Item” dialog: Notice anything? I’ll give...

Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 9:40 PM by kevindente | 10 comment(s)

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Absolute positioning in VS2005 HTML designer
In Visual Studio .NET 2003, ASPX pages included a property called pageLayout, which defaulted to “GridLayout” – essentially, CSS absolute positioning for all form elements. Although this is a horrible idea in a production application...

Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:51 PM by kevindente | 15 comment(s)

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Visual SourceSafe - recursive handling bug from command line
In case anyone else bangs their head against this – in SourceSafe, there seems to be a bug in recursive file handling using the command line tools. I tried performing a recursive checkout using a specific filename (AssemblyInfo.cs, in this case...

Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 8:25 PM by kevindente | 5 comment(s)

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SourceSafe 2005 - Getting back the old-style dialogs
Here’s a tip for those poor suckers (like me) who are still stuck using Visual SourceSafe. With SourceSafe 2005 Microsoft tried to clean up some of the ugly UI aspects that carried over from previous versions. In particular, a couple of the old...

Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:08 PM by kevindente | 13 comment(s)

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Uh-oh - TestDriven.NET goes commercial
Today Jamie Cansdale announced big news - TestDriven.NET is now a commercial product. Although not a huge surprise (signs have been there for a while), this change may very well have some serious repercussions. I know a lot of developers (including me...

Posted Monday, July 10, 2006 1:57 PM by kevindente | 1 comment(s)

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