Contents tagged with Visual Studio
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Visual Studio ViEmu and “the Dark Side” all happy together
So, if you like vi as an editor and you use Visual Studio, pony up the money and get ViEmu. Best money invested in my productivity and ergonomic efforts of this past year, hands down. If you love to hate your mouse you owe it to yourself to investigate ViEmu. There is also another free emulator that is available as an extension from the extensions online gallery called VsVim. However the rest of this blog has to do with configuring ViEmu to work with your particular choice of Visual Studio color scheme.
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Friends Don't Let Friends Use VS Merge Tool
There are many things that Visual Studio does so well out-of-the-box, and then there is merging conflicts. The built-in merge tool is about as helpful as high beams on your car on a foggy night. The screen is full of information you just can't tell what it means.
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Make your head hurt in a good way
I have been just as attentive to blog reading as I have to blog writing and was enjoying some extra-long fix/compile/test cycles today and was able to catch up on Eric Lippert’s blog. All I have to say is: “my head hurts … and it feels great!”.
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Custom Filter for a WPF TextBox
So, I had a need to implement a TextBox in WPF with auto filtering functionality. For example the initial requests were to limit a TextBox to numeric characters only. This was simple enough. Handle the PreviewTextInput Event and only allow numeric characters to be entered. So my first, simplistic, hack version was simply this:
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New entry to blog roll – John Robbins
This most recent post by John Robbins is what motivated me to add his blog to my blog roll. However, it has been a must read for a while now. This post is actually more “fluffy” than most for him, I just loved the insight into things macros can do that I hadn’t considered like setting breakpoints with custom conditions. Also liked the code he used to validate that the current window in the IDE was in fact a code file before moving forward with the macro. I pulled that method out and added it to my common module of macros.
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The Achilles Thread
Recovered from DotNetJunkies blog -- Originally Posted: Sunday, November 18, 2007
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Forest for the trees – Don’t forget the compiler
Recovered from DotNetJunkies blog -- Originally Posted: Wednesday, June 6, 2007
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That which we call a Namespace, by any other name would just smell.
Recovered from DotNetJunkies blog -- Originally Posted: Tuesday, June 27, 2006
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It is Truly the Simple Pleasures In Life
Recovered from DotNetJunkies blog -- Originally Posted: Monday, April 24, 2006
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XAML editor and a life – no way!
Found this a while back and to search for it all over again to set up a new IDE. That’s one time too many.