Visual Studio

If you are an avid Git user like I am, but also happen to work in a Visual Studio environment, you know that getting to your Git Bash command prompt is anything but easy. My typical process looks probably something like yours: Open Visual Studio Open your project you are working on Right click on a folder in the project and choose “Open Folder in Windows Explorer” Back your way up through the folders in Windows Explorer till you get to the parent folder that is the root of your project. Then right click on the root folder of your project and choose “Git Bash Here” Start using Git Bash To me this process got so annoying and tedious that I finally decided to explorer other options to get to my Git Bash prompt. The best one that I have come up with so far and works perfectly for me is adding the Git Bash as an “External Tool” in Visual Studio. To get started you will need a couple of things: ...

As promised here is the updated scripts for CodeRush Xpress 10.1, which was released about a week ago. The Keyboard Command Way Shift+Ctrl+Alt+O The Registry Hack Way Show Menu for CodeRush Xpress (x86) Show Menu for CodeRush Xpress (x64) As seems to be my habit I will state this again: I really wish DevExpress would stop treating the registry as a dumping ground and creating a new parallel registry path with each new install, it makes customizing the registry settings very difficult to keep up with. I could see it for each major version, but common is a new registry path really needed for each minor version?

Here is a copy of the presentation that I presented at the Philly Code Camp 2010.1 today. If you attended, thank you. If you didn’t attend here is the basic overlay of what I presented for you. Here are a couple of links used and referenced in the presentation: msdn.microsoft.com/vsx blogs.msdn.com/visualstudio The source of the examples I used: editorsamples.codeplex.com/ github.com/managedfusion/spark-visualstudio

With the recent release of Visual Studio 2010 RC, I decided to take Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 RC for a spin also. I was really interested in seeing what new and great features are being offered, because there has been a lot of buzz around this release of TFS. After installing Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate on my laptop and setting up TFS 2010 as a new install, which was way easier than I remember 2005 being, I connected up VS 2010 and TFS 2010 with out a problem. ...

As promised here is the updated scripts for CodeRush Xpress 9.3, which was released a few week ago. The Keyboard Command Way Shift+Ctrl+Alt+O The Registry Hack Way Show Menu for CodeRush Xpress (x86) Show Menu for CodeRush Xpress (x64) I will state this again: I really wish DevExpress would stop treating the registry as a dumping ground and creating a new parallel registry path with each new install, it makes customizing the registry settings very difficult to keep up with. I could see it for each major version, but common is a new registry path really needed for each minor version?

As I announced yesterday I will be speaking at the Philly Code Camp 2009.1 on Visual Studio 2008 for beginners. As part of this presentation I want to be able to provide the 10 most valuable tips for beginners using Visual Studio. I did a quick search of the internet last night, on this subject, and everything seemed to point to Sara Ford as the defacto standard on Visual Studio tips. She even has a best selling book on the subject, appropriately called Microsoft Visual Studio Tips. ...

I have been a huge fan of jQuery ever since I started working on IdeaPipe about 10 months ago. Mostly because of its simplistic DOM access using standard CSS syntax that we all have to learn anyways in the modern Web 2.0 world. In addition to the ease of finding elements on your page, it also works very nicely with other frameworks, I have used it in combination with Microsoft AJAX, Google’s GData JavaScript, and TinyMCE. ...

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Improved WPF designers SQL Server 2008 support ADO.NET Entity Designer Visual Basic and Visual C++ components and tools (including an MFC-based Office 2007 style ‘Ribbon’) Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) addresses customer feedback on version control usability and performance, email integration with work item tracking and full support for hosting on SQL Server 2008 Richer JavaScript support, enhanced AJAX and data tools, and Web site deployment improvements The .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Performance increases between 20-45% for WPF-based applications – without having to change any code WCF improvements that give developers more control over the way they access data and services Streamlined installation experience for client applications Improvements in the area of data platform, such as the ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and support for SQL Server 2008’s new features Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 A number of improvements have been made to Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation including: ...

I decided to be one of those early installers that brave the RTM and hope everything has been programed correctly, so my current system doesn’t get blown away in the upgrade process. I have a small in home Team Foundation Server that I use for my home based business and personal coding. So an upgrade is pretty risky, in that I risk loosing everything. Knowing all the risks I decided to move forward and everything was going smoothly with installing Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server, until I ran in to the follow problem. ...

Scott Guthrie has announced that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 are now available for download and provides a tour of some of the new features. If you are a MSDN subscriber, you can download your copy from the MSDN subscription site (note: some of the builds are just finishing being uploaded now - so check back later during the day if you don’t see it yet). If you are a non-MSDN subscriber, you can download a 90-day free trial edition of Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite here. A 90-day trial edition of Visual Studio 2008 Professional (which will be a slightly smaller download) will be available next week. A 90-day free trial edition of Team Foundation Server can also be downloaded here. If you want to use the free Visual Studio 2008 Express editions (which are much smaller and totally free), you can download them here. If you want to just install the .NET Framework 3.5 runtime, you can download it here.