For a tech blogger who wants to show off a lot of codes , the gruesome process of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V may not be of big help . Why? Because your blog may not be WYSIWYG and the pasted code just mess up your post . Then came CopySourceAsHTML for Visual Studio developers . Sleek and handy , just copy the...
Nice! Visual Studio 2005 now allows Class Library projects (DLL) to reference Applications (EXE). On Visual Studio 2003, EXE projects are not listed on the Add Reference dialog. The .NET framework does not put any restrictions on what you can reference. I think the IDE programmers thought they're...
I first heard about NDepend months ago from Scott Hanselman through one of his podcast . I had the chance to evaluate a professional edition of the tool so here are my insights. Here is a screenshot of one of our current projects loaded in NDepend. NDepend's CQL (Code Query Language) is the first...
Jetbrains has just released their beta version of Resharper 3.0, download it here . Again, VB.NET guys out there, you should try Resharper since it now supports your language. Resharper 3.0 will now come into three versions (C#, VB and Full edition). I will be upgrading my copy to just the C# version...
Open a file on Binary Editor using Visual Studio's Command Window > File.OpenFile myfile.dat /editor:"Binary Editor"
Eight years ago, a friend of mine introduced me to the world of Unix (you know who you are -- thank you). After mastering the finger ballet that is emacs , I then discovered the wonders of modal text editing in VI . Those are the first *real* programmer editors that I've used. The power of Emacs...
Notepad has this cool feature that I never seen anyone ever use. When you create a file and place the text .LOG on the first line, Notepad will take that as log file. Everytime you open that file in Notepad, a new line will be appended containing the timestamp and the cursor will be placed under that...
we delivered the software with an hour to spare. software development projects just aren't as fun and exciting if you don't let murphy impose his law upon it. it has been said hundreds of times before, and yes i will say it again: PEOPLE, NOT TOOLS, MAKE GOOD SOFTWARE. and for this project i have been...
NCover says that version 1.5.5 is broken for .NET 1.x , so i opted to use version 1.3.3 for our .NET 1.1 projects. When I became involved with a .NET 2.0 project, i was curious why there are no logs emmitted for CCNET to render. I'm using NCover to profile MbUnit console runner as it runs our tests and...