I bet almost all the developers followed the ‘build’ keynote Yesterday, we had some big news (nothing too much scary, thankfully) and we saw Windows running on a bunch of new devices (I honestly can’t wait to put my hands on them) that will hit the m

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 14 September, 2011 and is filed under Various  Freetime talking  Visual Studio  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

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

This entry was posted on Friday, 03 June, 2011 and is filed under Visual Studio  Tips  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

It’s a fact that the Visual Studio 2010 Designer has some problems when dealing with inherited windows forms with a very very deep inheritance hierarchy (inheritance level > 2). Working on one of my legacy project I converted from VS2008 to VS201

This entry was posted on Thursday, 13 January, 2011 and is filed under Visual Studio  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

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

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 18 August, 2010 and is filed under Visual Studio  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

...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

This entry was posted on Thursday, 05 August, 2010 and is filed under Visual Studio  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

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

This entry was posted on Tuesday, 27 July, 2010 and is filed under Visual Studio  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

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

This entry was posted on Monday, 12 July, 2010 and is filed under Visual Studio  .Net  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

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...

This entry was posted on Monday, 06 July, 2009 and is filed under .Net  Visual Studio  NUnit  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

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...

This entry was posted on Friday, 26 June, 2009 and is filed under NUnit  .Net  Visual Studio  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

Two days ago I installed Internet Explorer 8 and I have to admit I was quite satisfied by its performance... it seemed more responsive and with faster load times compared to Ie7. However today I started to experience the first problems...in Wi...

This entry was posted on Thursday, 16 April, 2009 and is filed under Visual Studio  Freetime talking  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.