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Monday, June 30, 2008 3:29 AM

Sync your Visual Studio settings with Live Mesh!

Did you know that you can use Live Mesh to share and sync your Visual Studio settings between computers ? Here is how to do this in Vista (with Live Mesh client installed): Go to your VS2008 folder (usually C:\Users\ YourUserName \Documents\Visual Studio...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008 5:09 PM

Pimp my IDE talk at EnergizeIT

Here is a link to download the content I used for my quick talk at EnergizeIT Toronto ("Pimp my IDE" aka customize Visual Studio 2008): The blog post I showed: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioProgrammerThemesGallery.aspx You can also...
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Saturday, March 22, 2008 5:38 AM

Code snippets not versioned according to VS2008 Multi Targeting

I have reported a VS2008 issue to the VS Team regarding code snippets : I am a heavy snippets user, and noticed that they are not tied to multi targeting... I use VS2008 with ASP.NET 2.0 websites (not migrated to ASP.NET 3.5), but snippets are for ASP...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:58 AM

VS2008 and IE8 auto Js debugging mode

Here is a nice feature of IE8: Remember both "Disable script debugging" options you had to uncheck in IE to enable JavaScript debugging ? You no longer have to! You can now stay on default "script debugging off" mode in IE and when...
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Saturday, March 15, 2008 9:53 PM

Fix my CSS, win a Prize!

[Update: I have a Winner... contest closed!] I was told that my blog does not display very well (or not at all) in Opera browser... Like most of you I don't have time for this, and community server's css are a real mess, so if someone takes time and send...
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Sunday, March 02, 2008 4:46 PM

[Cool Tool] VS Resource Refactoring Tool

The recently opened Visual Studio Gallery contains some free hidden Microsoft gems, Resource Refactoring Tool is one of them. Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the code to resource files. It works...
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Friday, February 29, 2008 11:19 PM

Visual Studio Gallery

Microsoft has just released a new website for .NET developers : the Visual Studio Gallery. http://visualstudiogallery.com You can browse and download existing products & extensions for Visual Studio (any version). In the web category you will find...
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Saturday, October 06, 2007 12:30 AM

Vista Sidebar Gadget Template

Tim Heuer has done a really nice Sidebar Gadget Template for Visual Studio. The structure you get when creating a new Web Site/VistaSidebarGadget from VS : Note that it creates one local folder (en-US) so you can easily add some more later, and it comes...
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Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:39 AM

Web Deployment Projects and Visual Studio 2008

I have been working a lot with Web Deployment Projects and even wrote articles on it, so I wanted to have a look at what comes with VS2008. It appears that unlike what I thought, Web Deployment Projects will not be part of VS2008. According to the Web...
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:18 AM

Some new ASP.NET smart articles

My "cool links of the week" related to ASP.NET : Add variables to standard CSS stylesheets in ASP.NET Mads Kristensen made a very nice HttpHandler to add Variables and Scripting capabilities to your css. Web Site or Web Application? Susan Warren wrote...
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