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Visual Studio 2012 Intellisense Stopped Working – Solved

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:September 9, 2013
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Sometimes software surprises me. Somehow it just inexplicably stops working the way we expect it to. What is even more surprising is how somewhere, someone has a solution to this problem you are facing.

I am using Visual Studio Ultimate 2012, and the other day while writing some code for a blog post, Intellisense suddenly stopped working. This happened while I was coding and wasn’t a result of me installing anything or removing anything. It literally worked the one minute, and stopped working the next.

Perturbed by this situation, I set out on a (very short) quest to find out how to fix this. (more…)

Visual Studio 2012 Tips Series – Content Rollup

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:August 1, 2013
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Visual Studio 2012 Programmer Tips were fun and very edifying to research and write about. With Visual Studio 2013 around the corner, I have decided to provide all the previous Visual Studio 2012 tips together in one place for your reading pleasure.

Visual Studio 2012 is really a different beast and I am confident that trying to master many of its features and coming to grips with its capabilities will make you a better programmer.

Seeing as these only comprise six posts, I considered making them part of one of The Daily Six Pack posts, but decided not to and provide them as an article on their own. So I hope that you enjoy the Visual Studio 2012 series below. (more…)

Visual Studio 2012 Tips Part 6 – Browse Web App With IE (No Add-Ons)

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:April 1, 2013
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The last two weeks I have been developing an application that creates Sales Orders from a web interface. The application is used to return damaged watches and sunglasses to the repair centre.

It creates a Sales Order entry in SYSPRO and makes use of various custom fields to store data not available in SYSPRO. The application wasn’t very complicated, but did take a few days to complete.

During this development, I came across a nice quick tip (see reference below) when browsing ASP.NET pages in Visual Studio that allows you to specify that you need to browse with a Browser (IE in this case) sans the add-ons. I wanted to share this here.

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Atomineer Pro Documentation for Visual Studio 2012

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:March 11, 2013
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Anomineer for Visual Studio 2012

One of the best tools I have ever used is Atomineer for Visual Studio. It provides excellent code comments and is far more readable (and makes more sense) than other commenting tools out there.

If you are looking for such a tool, try out Atomineer. It is very affordable and you get tremendous value for money. Each Atomineer Pro Documentation license will buy you a year of email support and software updates. I have to say that the email support is truly great and very quick.. (more…)

Visual Studio 2012 Tips Part 5 – Protect Your Code, Obfuscate

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:February 27, 2013
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In the world of Software Development today, anyone that doesn’t protect their intellectual property is setting themselves up for disaster. Luckily, Visual Studio 2012 (as do previous editions of Visual Studio) comes with a community edition of PreEmptive Dotfuscator and Analytics. To compare the editions and other features available in Dotfuscator and Analytics visit their website. (more…)

Visual Studio 2012 Tips Part 4 – Understand Your Code With Dependency Graphs

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:February 20, 2013
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Have you ever had to take over a project from a developer who has left the company or did work as an outside contractor and now you need to enhance / add to that code?

As you then probably know, it takes a bit of code surfing to get to know the code and how everything fits together. It is also not immediately clear which dependencies are present in your code. Luckily Microsoft has built a tool that can help.

With Visual Studio Ultimate, you can create Dependency Graphs from your code to help you visualise how that code is organised and it also helps you understand the dependencies more easily. (Compare Visual Studio editions)

It is an excellent tool for working with unfamiliar code. Dependency Graphs give you an overview of all the code in your solution. With this post I will give you an overview of what you can do with Dependency Graphs.

For a more in-depth article, see Visualize Code Dependencies on Dependency Graphs. (more…)

Visual Studio 2012 Tips Part 3 – Run Visual Studio 2012 as Admin in Windows 8

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:February 18, 2013
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If you are using Windows 8 and you need to run Visual Studio as Administrator, you could always Right Click on the shortcut, then right click on the Visual Studio icon and then select Run As Administrator. But do you really want to do this each and every time you need to run Visual Studio?

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Visual Studio 2012 Tips Part 2 – Turn off Menu Upper Casing

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:February 11, 2013
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Visual Studio 2012 has a quirk that many users despise. The Uppercase menu. Now personally I don’t mind it, but some developers simply hate it. Unfortunately, it’s not an option you can just enable or disable. Fortunately, there are people out there that have a solution for this (See Reference below).

Before we continue, the solution involves editing the registry. Modifying the registry can cause problems or unexpected results, so continue at your own risk. (Seeing as the intended audience will probably be developers, I guess you have no qualms with modifying the registry). Now that this warning is out of the way, let’s continue.

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Visual Studio 2012 Tips Part 1 – PowerPoint Storyboarding

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:February 8, 2013
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The PowerPoint Add-In for Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate users is a great tool to quickly create interface designs that you can provide to your customers. This in turn allows you to gain valuable feedback from them because you can make these designs interactive.

What is even better is that, because it is PowerPoint, your customers can change elements on the form to illustrate exactly what they mean. To start using PowerPoint Storyboarding, head on over to your Windows 8 Search. (Windows Key + C to activate the Charm Bar and select Search)

As you type “PowerPoint Storyboarding” into the search field, the results will filter until you can select the application from the search results.

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