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 [...]
Official jQuery 1.3.0, 1.3.1 Visual Studio Intellisense Files
It looks like this weekend while I was at the South Florida Code Camp the jQuery team has posted the official jQuery 1.3.1 Visual Studio intellisense file. You can get it from the jQuery downloads page, or more directly from the jQuery Google Code download page. The official 1.3.0 documentation was posted this weekend as [...]
Update for .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Available
Microsoft has released an update for .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Taken from the update page: An update for the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is available. This article describes information about the issues that the update for the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 fixes. The update for the .NET Framework 3.5 [...]
FxCop 1.36 and StyleCop 4.3
While this is not new news, I realized that finding the link to download FxCop 1.36 is still not as straight forward as I’d like it to be (most links are still pointing to the 1.35 on msdn code or the 1.36 Beta 2 release), so I thought I would add the link here so [...]
