When I speak at conferences, I am always amazed on how many C# programmers do not use StyleCop from Microsoft! C'mon, it's FREE! This Visual Studio add-in helps you to format your code to look consistent among your developers... just like Microsoft does.
Category: VS.NET
Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 Released
Today the second update to Visual Studio 2013 has been released. I'm downloading it now, can't wait to check it out!
dotNetDave Explains… .NET Overview
New to the Microsoft .NET Framework? In this episode you will learn user experience with Visual Studio, .NET release timeline, architecture features and the .NET Framework SDK.
Visual Studio 2013 – New Features
Here is a link to some great articles on some of the cool new features of VS2013. Most written by my fellow Microsoft MVP's. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mvpawardprogram/archive/2013/10/21/mvps-explore-visual-studio-2013.aspx
Visual Studio 2013 Released
For developers and development teams, Visual Studio 2013 delivers applications across all Microsoft devices, cloud, desktop, server and game console platforms by providing a consistent development experience, hybrid collaboration options, and state-of-the-art tools, services, and resources. Below are just a few of the highlights in this release: • Innovative features for greater developer productivity: Visual Studio 2013 … Continue reading Visual Studio 2013 Released
Announcing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1
The service pack for VS2010 has been released, to download go to: Download Service Pack 1 (MSDN Subscribers) Thursday's general availability download is here. For more info, go to: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2011/03/08/announcing-visual-studio-2010-service-pack-1.aspx?sf1160498=1
Wish List for Visual Studio and .NET 4+
After using .NET 4 and Visual Studio for about a year now, here is my wish list for an upcoming release: Visual Studio 2010+ Speed up loading in virtual environments like VMWare and Parallels. I've seen VS 2010 take up to 5 minutes to load in VMWare. Not acceptable! Building Projects/ Solutions The ability when … Continue reading Wish List for Visual Studio and .NET 4+
Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta Released
The Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta is now ready for download! Service Pack 1 Beta comes with a “go live” license which means you can start using the product for production related work (see the license agreement with the product for more details). Download Service Pack 1 Beta (MSDN Subscribers only) The link … Continue reading Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta Released
See All of Your Code!
No matter how big your screen resolution is, it seems we write a line of code wider than the width of the code editor window in Visual Studio. One solution is to break up your line using carriage returns (now works without the “_” character in VB.NET too). This issue with this is that every … Continue reading See All of Your Code!
Quickly Finding Items in Visual Studio 2010
There is a new shortcut in VS2010 that makes it really simple to find any item in your solution very quick and easy. Simply type Ctrl-Comma and this dialog will appear: Start typing what you are looking for and this will quickly list all items that contain what you have typed (similar to Google Suggest).

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