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Visual Studio 2012 Intellisense Stopped Working – Solved

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:September 9, 2013
Post category:Visual Studio 2012
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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…)

The Daily Six Pack: September 5, 2013

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:September 5, 2013
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio 2013 Tricks Microsoft DevRadio: Visual Studio 2013 Tips and Tricks for Your Windows Apps, Michael Palermo Other Stupid Question 235-236: What is UEFI, and what is Secure Boot?, Iris Classon 10 Easy…

The Daily Six Pack: August 23, 2013

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:August 23, 2013
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A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: VirtualBox Tips 10 ways to get the most from VirtualBox, Jack Wallen Other Integrating Search Charm with your Windows 8 Store Application, Mahesh Sabnis Misspelled strings in your projects? Visual Studio Spell Checker (with…

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…)

The Daily Six Pack: July 29, 2013

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:July 29, 2013
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Ajax Control Toolkit release for July brings performance improvements to the fore. This July release of the Ajax Control Toolkit introduces Control Bundles. To take advantage of this and other performance features, you need to do two things. Create an AjaxControlToolkit.config file to list all the controls used on your site…

Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook – Reviewed

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:July 26, 2013
Post category:Reviewed
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Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook – Being a programmer, I love technology related books. (Any programmer that doesn’t read is flawed. Sorry, it’s a fact, you will never grow.) I try to read as often as I can. I enjoy reading on-line, easily digestible content and therefore the more concise an article is, the better.

But with books, I often find that I simply scan through them because the content is so long winded or doesn’t get to the juicy bits quickly enough. If it were a spy novel, sure… build suspense, but don’t do that in a tech book I’m reading.

I want the information presented in an easy manner that is easy to understand or explained well. I am probably the most fussy of readers out there. Nicky Scrooby is a journalist friend of mine and that girl reads a lot. I doubt that I would ever come close to her with the sheer volume of books she reads. But nevertheless, I do try get a healthy dose of tech via well written books. (more…)

The Daily Six Pack: July 24, 2013

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:July 24, 2013
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Prosecuting Edward Snowden - The story of intrigue and spy vs spy. There is a lot to say about the subject, and no matter what your personal point of view is on the matter, he will probably be caught. Bruce Schneider writes a great article on Prosecuting Snowden. If you…

The Daily Six Pack: July 15, 2013

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:July 15, 2013
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Buying Bitcoin in South Africa has probably not been the easiest of things to do, until now. Jeffrey Denning has a great article on how to do just that. He also points out that you can use an all South African exchange too. If you aren't into mining Bitcoins, why…

Clone VirtualBox VM’s Easily To Provide a Fresh Dev Environment

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:July 11, 2013
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Clone VirtualBox VM's - Lately I have fallen in love again with VirtualBox. I have decided that using the same installation of SYSPRO on my local dev machine to do all customisations is inefficient. As time moves along and different customisations need to be done for different clients, my SYSPRO installation…

Windows 8 Tips Part 19 – Bring back Boot Into Safe Mode With F8

Post author:Dirk Strauss
Post published:July 8, 2013
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F8 Safe Boot seems to have vanished from Windows 8? One of the strange quirks of Windows 8 is that the Boot into Safe mode by pressing F8 at boot time has been disabled. Microsoft justifies this by saying that modern computers boot too fast.

The response window for pressing the F8 key on a Windows 8 SSD-based UEFI system is less than 200 milliseconds. This is surely okay for modern Windows 8 devices, but for the rest of us folks out there with slower machines (or for those who prefer the F8 Safe Boot method because it is familiar to us), we want the F8 Safe Boot key back. (more…)