Here is a quick and easy way to add a Google (or Bing) Web Search link to the context menu in Visual Studio: Open the Visual Studio macros IDE by navigating to Tools –> Macros –> Macros IDE (or pressing Alt+F11). Right click on “MyMacros” and select Add New –> Add New Item. Select the [...]
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Automatically Cancelling a Failed Build in Visual Studio
Stumbled across this little tip on how to automatically cancel a build in progress after getting an error. You normally have to wait for visual studio to try to finish building all of the remaining projects before getting a chance to fix an the issue and this can take a few minutes if you have [...]
WPF / Silverlight Links
09/15/2009 – Edit: I now have a static page dedicated to these links. I’m just starting go through my WPF books, so I wanted to capture some useful WPF / Silverlight links that I’ve discovered over the last year. Windows Client – Winforms and WPF Home. Information, tutorials, links. http://windowsclient.net/default.aspx Silverlight Home – Information, tutorials, [...]
Retroactive Browser Compatibility
When working on an existing web application you may be placed in a situation where you need to support new browsers, or just other browsers that your app wasn’t originally coded for or tested in. In my case, this took the form of a web app developed exclusively for Internet Explorer that now needed to [...]
Making ReSharper Play Nice With StyleCop
I’ve been toying with StyleCop more and more as of late and ran into some situations where ReSharper and StyleCop were fighting each other over code formatting issues. Some manual tweaking reduced the problems, but it got me curious. So I did some research and uncovered a wonderful tool, StyleCop for ReSharper. StyleCop for ReSharper [...]
