Back in September I was watching the Build session that Anders Hejlsberg was giving on the Future directions for C# and Visual Basic and something small but interesting stood out to me in the demo code he used. We’re all pretty used to the standard boilerplate implementation of INotifyPropertyChanged that goes like this: public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged; [...]
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Quick and Easy Google (or Bing) Web Search in Visual Studio
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]