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I don’t remind where I originally got this Tip, but it’s proven to be very useful to save lots of time when you have very big solution and your projects are failing to build. I am reporting it here as a note to myself because I really missed it when

Recently I’ve been able to replace my Visual Studio 2010 Professional with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and the first feature I wanted to try was IntelliTrace, to see how it could help me debug and improve the quality of my software. After giving a l

...even if they don’t seem to consume too much time. I have finally found some ‘time slots’ to assign to code profiling activities, so I decided to take advantage of the dotTrace License that was kindly awarded to me by JetBrains (thanks again to Jet

Recently CodePlex updated their TFS to the 2010 version, during the update your reference TFS server may have changed name (like it happened for Dexter, our original TFS server was tfs05.codeplex.com and now it is tfs.codeplex.com). To switch to the

Reviewing the Install/Uninstall process I’ve created using the standard Visual Studio Setup Project template, I’ve noticed that some files were always left on the installation folder after a complete program uninstall sequence. The default behavior

In the past few days I was moved to analyze some legacy code from a huge web application written by a company I work with. I have to write some new modules to integrate in this application; but while I was reviewing the code to ‘learn’ the styl...

One of the major problems when it comes to NUnit extensibility is the limitation that you must deploy your Addins in a subfolder (named ‘addins’) under the installation (or run) path of NUnit, so if you build some customization and extension an...

These days I’m heavily working on NUnit to build some extensions to the testing framework we need on our projects. We need a simple way to launch our tests inside visual studio while developing. Our first solution was to use TestDriven.NET or t...

And it happened to me too...I was trying to add some new controls to my toolbox (the Silverlight toolkit in the specific) and I got that nasty IDE crash, it all shut down without notice nor errors. I started to look around in the Internet to s...

You never end learning something new, I taught I have seen enough when dealing with solutions with C# and VB.NET mixed projects, today working on a legacy system I found the following scenario: Project A - VB project, defines a set of base cla...