Contents tagged with General Software Development
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Useful TFS VS extensions
After using SVN for last 6-7 years, its not that easy to shift to TFS. You get used to doing things in certain way and look for similar options in new system too. So, I have been looking for extensions/tools to make it easy and more productive to use TFS. Here is a list of extensions I have liked and are really useful IMO –
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Creating custom filters in Resharper To-do Explorer – Part 2
In my previous post on this topic (Creating custom filters in Resharper To-do Explorer) we created custom filters in Resharper 5.1, same is supported in ReSharper 8.0 too and you don’t even need to create a separate filter for a particular pattern, R# will automatically add a pattern to filter list -
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Agent Smith for Resharper
Recently I started using a plug-in for ReSharper: Agent Smith. Although its pretty old tool but somehow there was no solid requirement for using it, so I never tried it.
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Outrageous Work Conditions for a Developer analyst
Recently came across a job opening sent to me by a HR person on LinkedIn; The service based company is a very big name in IT but the work conditions mentioned in the job description were extremely unusual -
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Creating custom filters in Resharper To-do Explorer
We can create a custom filter in Resharper To-Do explorer to filter out all the to-do items created by a specific person or with a particular string literal. This is very useful in case you are working in a big team and have habit to add To-do comments. Here are the steps to create a new filter with a specific string -
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Using RS Scripter to create deployment script for reporting services
Update: The download link and the sqldbatips site seems to be down for quite sometime now and I am not sure if it’s going to revive ever or not. I came across a project on CodePlex which talks about installing and configuring Reporting Services Scripter (RS Scripter) as part of the SQL Server install process, not sure how well it’s going to work but here is the link to the project -
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Firebug Lite : Firebug for IE, Safari, and Opera
As a web developer I really love firebug, easy to use and really powerful web development tool. I always missed firebug when I test my pages with IE; although we have Developer Toolbar for IE I always find it tough to use when compared to Firebug. Most obvious reason is because firebug gets embedded in browser window instead of Developer toolbar which is a popup window and its really tough to move between your page and developer toolbar.
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tsvn:logtemplate - Enforcing strict format to SVN check-in mails
TortoiseSVN is a free open-source client for the Subversion version control system. Sometimes you want to have a more detailed information about a file/directory than just the icon overlay.