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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…)

The Daily Six Pack: November 11, 2013

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:November 11, 2013
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio 2013 Code Maps Code Maps in Visual Studio 2013, MVP Blog Other Switching from Windows to Mac: What I learned, Owen Williams Tools for developers to simulate a slow Internet Connection, Senthil Kumar…

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…)

The Daily Six Pack: November 8, 2013

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Post published:November 8, 2013
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Virtual Reality Virtual Reality in the .NET Framework, Part 1, Eric Vogel Other New Features in Blend for Visual Studio 2013, Alvin Ashcraft .NET Framework setup verification tool and cleanup tool now support .NET Framework…

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…)

The Daily Six Pack: November 5, 2013

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:November 5, 2013
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Twitter Cards Add Twitter Cards to your content, Tim Heuer Other The Programmers Newspaper, Kunal Chowdhury SQL Scripts Runner, Lyubomir Rumenov Velchev #966 – Visual Studio Code Editor Helps with Indenting, Sean Sexton Beginning LightSwitch…

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…)

The Daily Six Pack: November 4, 2013

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Post published:November 4, 2013
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Tech Days Online Tech Days Online, 6-8 November 2013 Other Windows 8.1 Book: Install 0.1, Paul Thurrott Testing mobile apps using Visual Studio 2013, Vinu Chandran How to sign into Windows 8 or 8.1 without…

The Daily Six Pack: November 1, 2013

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Post published:November 1, 2013
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Windows 8.1 Learning RoadMap Windows 8.1 Learning RoadMap, Ibrahim Kivanc Other VS2013 won’t start debugging, Rory Primrose Free Tools: Subversion, TortoiseSVN, VisualSVN, Peter Vogel Free ebook: Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript,…

The Daily Six Pack: October 29, 2013

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:October 29, 2013
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Building Multiple View SPA Hands On Lab: Building a Multiple View Single Page Application (SPA), Jason Haley Other Two Dozen Insanely Essential Programmer Utilities*, Jesse Liberty Essential Development Tools–Part 2, Jesse Liberty #961 – Retrieving…