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CodeLens Freezes Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:April 9, 2015
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CodeLens Freezes Visual Studio – This year has been quite a hectic year for me. I started a new job in January and being challenged every day is as rewarding as it is fun. I really enjoy learning something new and getting to grips with new technologies gets my heart racing. Ok, so I know that sounded REALLY geeky. As my development tool of choice, I use Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate. Unfortunately, for the past four months Visual Studio has been frustrating me and driving me nuts! It keeps on freezing and locks up my laptop totally. (more…)

Bing Code Search In Visual Studio 2013

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:February 25, 2014
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Bing Code Search – There is a very nice Visual Studio extension on the Visual Studio Gallery called Bing Code Search for C#. If you are running Visual Studio 2013, head on over there and download and install this extension. It really makes finding code snippets a piece of cake and is surely a fantastic productivity booster. (more…)

Visual Studio 2013 Build Fails Without Error List Errors

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:November 12, 2013
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Visual Studio 2013 Build Fails – Visual Studio 2013 is an awesome IDE. I am having so much fun working with it and writing software with it. I try to learn as much as possible about each new IDE version, but it is a challenging task. Last night I added a Windows Forms Project to my solution. As a regular habit, I built the solution. The build for all 8 projects inside my solution failed. What was even more frustrating was that there were no errors displayed in the Error List. The solution was rather simple. (more…)

Visual Studio 2013 Custom Tokens And TODO Comments

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:November 8, 2013
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Visual Studio 2013 Custom Tokens – This is a feature that has been around forever. It is one that I am sure is underutilized to a great extent. So everyone probably knows about TODO comments. If you have several things that you need to do or complete, you can add a simple To-Do list in you code by adding TODO’s.

All your TODO’s will then show up in your Task List when you set the Task List to display Comments. Custom Tokens allow you to go a step further and roll your own. (more…)

Visual Studio 2013 Avoid Copying Blank Lines

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:November 6, 2013
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Visual Studio 2013 Avoid Copying Blank Lines – Yes, it is something that happens to me often. I don’t know why I do it so easily. I guess it is because I use the keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste (Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V).

When I want to cut, I type Ctrl+X and then because my finger is moved one key to the left, I type Ctrl+C instead of Ctrl+V. It has been the bane of my Visual Studio experience since Visual Studio 2003 and has infuriated me endlessly (even if that fury is only vented at my own stupidity). But this little pet peeve of mine is particularly troublesome when I am already frustrated with difficult code.

With Visual Studio 2013 we see an option available to avoid this silly mistake (and save some of my sanity). (more…)

Visual Studio 2013 Breakpoint Labels

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:November 4, 2013
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Visual Studio 2013 Breakpoint Labels – The ability to add labels to breakpoints has been around since Visual Studio 2010, but I was until recently unaware of this feature. How could this be possible? Well I maintain that as a general rule, many developers learn just enough to get them by. After that they accidentally discover new features.

This is quite believable because the Visual Studio IDE is very feature rich. So how do Visual Studio 2013 Breakpoint Labels help us? Well, for the following reasons. (more…)

Visual Studio 2013 – Check Out Some Of The Great New Features

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:July 23, 2013
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Visual Studio 2013 Code Editor – The Preview has hit our developer shores, and I have to say that I am suitably impressed. The IDE looks great (You can change the colour of the IDE to one of a few colours) and the enhancements to the Code Editor are fabulous.

I thought I would take a closer look at some of these new features and post them here for your reference. If you want to read more, see the blogs of Brian Harry and Zain Naboulsi.

If you haven’t downloaded the Visual Studio 2013 Preview, head on over to the Visual Studio site and get the preview today. (more…)