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TFS Power Tools Get a Facelift
Today the Visual Studio Facebook page had an announcement about the availability of an update to the TFS Power Tools. Although I’ve been back in SVN-land lately this update is still pretty exciting....
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VS2010 SP1 Now Available
Visual Studio Magazine is reporting that Microsoft has released Visual Studio SP1 and it is now available for download. Among other things the service pack addresses issues with general stability, the...
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VSTS 2010 Load Test Browser Definitions
The list of browsers included in the VSTS 2010 browser list has a decent selection but with the release of IE9 and other browsers it’s already getting out of date. Luckily we can add additional...
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VS2010: Find in Files
I really debated with myself about writing this post but after an exchange with a friend I decided to go ahead with it. My team recently upgraded to new laptops with a fresh new image. When one of my...
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Changing the AnkhSVN Merge and Compare Tools
When my team reverted back to Subversion the first thing I missed was the Visual Studio integration from TFS. CollabNet provides AnkhSVN to fill that gap by exposing most common source control...
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VS2010: Box Selections
When I first saw the box selection capabilities in Visual Studio 2010 I thought “that’s kind of neat but I’ll probably never use it” and promptly moved on. I couldn’t have been more mistaken. In...
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Going Underground: Microsoft Moles
3/27/2012 Update: According to the Moles page, the Moles framework has been integrated into Visual Studio 11 as the Fakes framework and Moles is no longer under active development. After a quick...
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Operation could destabilize the runtime
Today I was trying to run the code for a project I’ve just been assigned to. I’d brought down the code from SVN, built the common libraries, and punched F5. Build succeeded. Before long the browser...
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VS2010: Web Standards Update and the CSS Editor
I’ve been doing a bit of Web UI work recently and everything was going fairly smooth until yesterday when I tried opening one of my CSS files in Visual Studio and was promptly greeted with a dialog...
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Visual Studio: Platform Based References
I’ve been needing to jump back and forth between 32 and 64 bit builds recently. Unfortunately a few of the 3rd party assemblies my project is using are platform specific so I found myself having to...
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