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Sunday, July 20, 2008 10:35 PM

C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies for assemblies to reference in your code

I just stumbles across a "new" concept of Microsoft. In the C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies folder Microsoft installs assemblies for products that can be referenced from your code. Instead of referencing assemblies directly from the GAC...
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 1:11 AM

SharePoint stsadm.exe and the infamous "Command line error"

The SharePoint command-line utility stsadm.exe was driving me crazy for the last two days. I'm automating all kind of this from PowerShell scripts, but I got the error "Command line error" while I was absolutely sure that what I was doing was correct...
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Saturday, September 22, 2007 11:55 PM

Visual Studio SDK 4.0, Vista and symbolic links...

When you install Visual Studio SDK on Vista, it doesn't install by default on X:\Program Files, but on X:\Program Files (x86). When I tried to recompile the VSIP Software Factory from Codeplex , it had links to the Visual Studio SDK in c:\program files...
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:07 AM

Generate a list of GUID's

Sometimes you just need a lot of GUID's while programming. Ofcourse you could use the Visual Studio GUID tool, bu that is a lot of work. Open a PowerShell console, and paste in the following line to get a list of 100 guid's: $i=100; while ($i-- -gt 0...
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Friday, May 04, 2007 12:08 AM

Factories @ Macaw - the DotNed presentation of april 26, 2007

On april 26, 2007 I gave a presentation at the Macaw headquarters in Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands on what we are doing with Software Factories at Macaw. I promised the audience to publish some links to tools and information mentioned in the presentation...
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:10 PM

MsBuild: sort your Content item file names

I have been playing a bit with MsBuild to process a set of Content items sorted by file name. Content items are the items included in the project, and their Build Action set to Content . Below some sample code on how to achive this, just paste the code...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:14 PM

Enumerating projects in a Visual Studio solution

People writing add-ins for Visual studio probably have come across the nightmare of the Visual studio object model to go through the projects within a solution. I had to get the list of projects in a solution, and for each solution its output path in...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:09 AM

Great list of links to info on Visual Studio extensibility

Writing add-ins and packages for Visual Studio is a whole different kind of sport. I stumbled across a great list of resources that can get you started: http://www.mztools.com/resources_vsnet_addins.htm
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Saturday, February 17, 2007 12:21 AM

VS 2005 image library - all the icons you need !

I am busy writing a toolwindow extension for Visual Studio 2005, and I needed some icons for my toolbar in the same style as Visual Stuido 2005. In search of this I stumbled accross the VS2005ImageLibrary, a zip file containing all the icons you need...
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Saturday, February 03, 2007 10:26 PM

VS.NET 2005 Tool Window for testing XPath expressions - XPathmania

I had to define some XPath expressions to query information from an XML document. I couldn't find any standard support for this in Visual Studio 2005, but after some searching I stumbled accross XPathmania, a tool window developed by Don Xml . Works like...
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