When installing the Windows Azure AppFabric Tools for Visual Studio (found here ), you might get the error message shown on the right, stating that Windows Server AppFabric is installed and that it is not compatible with this release of Windows Azure AppFabric Developer Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio...
When writing WCF services, most of us find ourselves writing quick test applications. To give you more time to do what a developer should be doing (adding business value to the project) the Visual Studio team added a WCF test client that can help you reach goals faster. This is not a very difficult application...
Here’s a quick Visual Studio tip for you… I frequently search for a specific text in my solution because I need to do something in all places where that text occurs. Today I found out how you can open all the files that are mentioned in the Find Results window. Search for the text you’re...
The past couple of days I’ve been experiencing some issues with the context menu for my Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2010. It contained scrollbars even when there was sufficient space on the screen to show the menu without scrolling. Searching for that issue I immediately found this blog post on...
Just a small post to start the new year... and let it be a good one! When opening a XAML document in Visual Studio, it opens in split view by default. This might become annoying when you have a large XAML document, because all the content needs to be rendered before you can get some work done. Here’s...
Because we were still using an old Visual Studio 2005 solution which included a Web Site project, it was time to upgrade. We upgraded our Visual Studio 2005 solution to Visual Studio 2010 (and .NET 4.0), converted the Web Site Project to a Web Application Project and then, of course, the AjaxControlToolkit...
Sometimes it’s the little things that make you love a new product just a bit more. I tend to close stuff I don’t use anymore fairly quickly. Sometimes I even close an Explorer window or an application right after I used it, only to find I need it again in a few moments… We all have...
While working with Visual Studio 2010, a new feature caught my eye that isn't communicated (strongly) in the "What's new" lists you can find online. As part of the Visual Studio 2010 supports multiple web.config files! Now we can create a separate web.config file for each configuration...
Boy, doesn't time move fast. It seems like only a few months ago when I downloaded VS2010 Beta 2 and now the release candidate is here. Okay, so it actually was a few months ago when I did the download, but you get the point don't you? I haven't done any coding in almost a month so I missed...
I’m thoroughly enjoying the nice new features in VS2010 and the little features offer the best wow moments for me. I was working on an app a couple of days ago that used LINQ and anonymous types and I now had to pass the result of the query to a procedure in another class for storage. This meant I had...
I’m a firm believer in the mantra “When all else fails, read the instructions.” For most items, I just get stuck into what I need to do and figure out the details on the way. This is what I did when I started using VS2010 beta 2. I have never used a beta 1 product before, and I’m usually hesitant...