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VSTS unit testing and the .VSMDI

If you have done any serious unit testing with Visual Studio Team System and tried to include these tests in your Team Build you will have come across issues with the .VSMDI . It might drive you crazy until you completeley understand what is going on. Read More...

WMI (What Magnificent Information)

Yesterday I blogged about a class I came across in the SystemInformation namespace called PowerStatus. It was working great for me until I tested it on a machine with three UPS's plugged into it. The three UPS's were not for that machine of course :) Read More...

PowerStatus

The project I am working on right now is a software factory that will eventually allow it's users to build software that controls robots and other devices in a laboratory. Today I wrote a service that monitors the power on the machine it's running. The Read More...

Documentation

Have you been looking for Ndoc or the cool document generator that was available for C# in VS 2003. They no longer seem to exist, I'm not sure what the whole story is behind the scenes, but I have come across a nice tool that works in their place. It's Read More...

VS 2005 Start Page

Did you know that the Start page in VS 2005 will display RSS Feeds? Try this in VS 2005: Select Tools - Options on the menu. Navigate to Environment - Startup. In the Start Page News Channel textbox paste the following: http://www.objectsharp.com/blogs/MainFeed.aspx Read More...

Snippets

Well Snippets are so easy it doesn't make sense not to create them. I am working on a VB.net 2005 windows application. This client has a very well defined framework. So implementing some feature of the framework is often a matter of finding an example Read More...

Productivity tip of the day

If you have ever read my blog you know I love IDE tips that make me more productive. I learned a cool new productivity tip for Visual Studio 2005 today. This is just another great benefit to paired programming. Thanks for the tip Eugene. Tip of the day: Read More...

Static Code Analysis made easier in VS 2005

The built in Static Code analysis in Visual Studio 2005 is pretty cool, and quit intuitive to use. There are a couple of nice features worth mentioning that are accessible right from the Error List. If you come across warnings in your error list put there Read More...

Document Outline for Windows forms

Many of you may be familiar with the Document Outline feature in word. Did you know Visual Studio also has a Document Outline. It's there in VS 2003 for Web Forms, in 2005 MS has made it useful to windows developers also. To open the Document Outline Read More...

Snap Lines

I know snap lines are not a big deal especially when you look at all the other new features of Visual Studio 2005. But for a windows developer they are a welcome productivity tool. I'm not blogging to tell you 2005 will have snap lines. I'm blogging to Read More...
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