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CodeLens Freezes Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate

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by Dirk Strauss - April 9, 2015 07212

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

Bing Code Search In Visual Studio 2013

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by Dirk Strauss - February 25, 2014November 2, 2016 04706

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

Visual Studio 2013 Build Fails Without Error List Errors

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by Dirk Strauss - November 12, 2013November 2, 2016 2215317

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

Visual Studio 2013 Custom Tokens And TODO Comments

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by Dirk Strauss - November 8, 2013November 2, 2016 29033

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

Visual Studio 2013 Avoid Copying Blank Lines

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by Dirk Strauss - November 6, 2013November 2, 2016 23818

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

Visual Studio 2013 Breakpoint Labels

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by Dirk Strauss - November 4, 2013November 2, 2016 04108

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.

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

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by Dirk Strauss - July 23, 2013November 2, 2016 13773

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