Omer van Kloeten's .NET Zen

Programming is life, the rest is mere details

News

Omer van Kloeten's Facebook profile

Get Firefox

.NET Resources

Articles :: CodeDom

Articles :: nGineer

Culture

Projects

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Visual Studio (RSS)
Quick Blurb: Test Tools Toolbar in Visual Studio and Useless Icons
Let's play a little game. To the left of this text are the five central icons from the Test Tools Toolbar in Visual Studio. Their commands are, in an unordered manner: Test List Editor, Test Runs, Test View, Code Coverage Results and Test Results. Connect...
Visual Studio Feature Request: Generic Constraints Auto-Complete
I'd love to see this become a reality in the next version of Visual Studio:
Catching Handled Exceptions During Debugging
Got an exception being thrown with only its name being displayed in the output window? Want to catch that exception? Just click on Debug -> Exceptions (Ctrl D, E) and check the exception you want to catch whenever it's thrown: Now the debugger will...
Life With WPF: 10 Things Wrong With WPF Today
[ Caveat : This is constructive criticism about XAML and the current version of WPF. They both have their strengths and things I love about them and they both may become better over time, but this is about what we have today.] After Tomer published his...
Releasing My Code Snippet Repository
Whenever I teach classes or do demos, I get asked about the C# code snippets I use in Visual Studio, so I decided to release them, if anyone would like to use them. I've created a project on CodePlex and I'll try to update it whenever I write a new one...
Quickly Find a Type's Assembly and Namespace
Sometimes you want to know a type's exact namespace and assembly (for instance, in order to find it in Reflector). Instead of waiting forever for Visual Studio's Help to load (that is, if you haven't already disabled F1 ) or searching Google for the answer...
WPF Designer Tip: Keyboard Shortcut
Ever wondered how to switch between the Cider Designer's views (Designer and XAML) in Visual Studio 2008 using the keyboard? Marco Goertz from the Cider team at Microsoft says that the command for this is the same command that opens the Cider Designer...
Generic Windows Forms Controls
Today I discovered that the Windows Forms Designer in Visual Studio 2005 doesn't know how to handle generics. For instance, the following example: private class MyControl<T> : System.Windows.Forms.Control { } could not be dropped in a Windows Forms...
Visual Studio 2005 Application Settings Oddities
While watching the MSDN Nugget on Application Settings in Visual Studio 2005 , I found a couple of things I found weird about the default application settings provider, LocalFileSettingsProvider : When saving to Application Data\<Application>\<Assembly>...
More Posts