Contents tagged with Visual Studio
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Why you need to learn async in .NET
I had an opportunity to teach a quick class yesterday about what’s new in .NET 4.0. One of the topics was the TPL (Task Parallel Library) and how it can make async programming easier. I also stressed that this is the direction Microsoft is going with for C# 5.0 and learning the TPL will greatly benefit their understanding of the new async stuff. We had a little time left over and I was able to show some code that uses the Async CTP to accomplish some stuff, but it wasn’t a simple demo that you could jump in to and understand so I thought I’d thrown one together and put it in a blog post.
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HOWTO: Change which “.testsettings” file Visual Stuido 2010 uses
I’m blogging this mainly for historical reasons. I just spent over 30 minutes trying to figure this out. Well, the first 10 or 15 minutes was getting code coverage enabled in Visual Studio 2010. There’s plenty of coverage on that topic since it’s not as intuitive as it could be. I’ll let Google handle that one.
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Updates to Nino’s .hgignore files for Visual Studio
As I move more of my repositories from SVN to Mercurial, I’m constantly referring to Nino’s sample .hgignore file he provided for Visual Studio developers. I always start with his file but add a few more lines and thought I’d share them here. Start with Nino’s .hgignore file and add the following two lines at the bottom:
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No Intellisense in Visual Studio 2010 RC1
Well, that's odd. Why were the default options for Intellisense turned off when I did a fresh install of Visual Studio 2010 RC1?