#visual-studio-2005

Attach to debugger script and shortcut

I got sick of manually attaching to the webserver (either aspnet_wp.exe on WinXP or w...

Stopwatch snippet

A little snippet that I use from time to time when I need information on how long som...

VS2008 DataDude and conditional deployment

This has taken us some time; depending on which environment you are, telling Visual S...

Using C# 3.0 from .NET 2.0

Yesterday I wrote an article on the property snippet in Visual Studio 2008 and that i...

Automatic properties and replacing the Visual Studio 2008 ‘prop’ snippet

In .NET Framework 3.5, we’ve gained automatic properties. Automatic properties are re...

Turn off automatic updates with ClickOnce

I got an email with the question how to turn off automatic checking for updates, whe...

~Visual Studio 2005

Forget about VPC, VMWare and the likes, I finally got it on my laptop! Let’s play… Oh...

Manual check for updates with ClickOnce

I really love [wikipediaClickOnce], because it removes the necessity to build a web ...

MSBuild tasks for Team Foundation Server

I’ve experienced editing Team Foundation Server builds by hand and I didn’t like it. ...

Connect to internet from device emulator in your VPC

I’m writing some applications and demos for the Summer Class using the .NET Compact F...

Just to late WF & WCF beta 2 samples

Arrgh, these come out just a day or two too late. But that’s life when you’re always ...

System.Transactions still not working

UPDATE It seems the SQL team actually have build a solution.  A while ago I wrote s...

TFS Get latest version on checkout

As most Team Foundation Server (TFS) users will know by now, upon checkout of a file ...

Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista Beta

Just recently Service Pack 1 was released (Beta!) for Visual Studio 2005. Back then, ...

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 available!

And suddenly it’s there… Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite SP1 (includes SP1 updates for ...

Display WCF host details; code snippet

Because I’m doing presentations, demos and the WCF article series, I host a lot of WC...

Running Vista; Redmond, we have a problem

So I’m running Windows Vista. And although it’s running very smoothly itself, there a...

Bitslapping contest LX vs Compile on Test integration in VS2005, part 2 response

Well, it seems Alex took things seriously and is slapping his bitstick around. Think...

TestDriven.NET 2.0 RTM

Some time ago I had a discussion with my colleague Alex Thissen about the differences...