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 [...]
Archive of posts tagged VisualStudio
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 [...]
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 [...]
Unofficial JQuery 1.3 Visual Studio Intellisense File
In lieu of the official Visual Studio 2008 Intellisense file for jQuery, the jQuery intellisense file generator at http://www.infobasis.com/sandpit/jQuery-Intellisense/ has been updated to support jQuery 1.3.0 (See this post for more details). The will allow you to get proper jQuery 1.3 intellisense in your applications until the official version is released. The above linked script generator uses [...]