Making Visual Studio 2012 Visually Usable

Visual Studio 2012 has some interesting theories on visual clutter and drawing the eye to your code. Some things work, but some things render the interface difficult to work with when not directly working on code. I made the following customizations to improve my Visual Studio 2012 experience. Get the Theme Editor Download the Visual [...]

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Why you need to learn async in .NET

I had an opportunity to teach a quick class yesterday about what’s new in .NET 4.0.  One of the topics was the TPL (Task Parallel Library) and how it can make async programming easier.  I also stressed that this is the direction Microsoft i…

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Why you need to learn async in .NET

I had an opportunity to teach a quick class yesterday about what’s new in .NET 4.0.  One of the topics was the TPL (Task Parallel Library) and how it can make async programming easier.  I also stressed that this is the direction Microsoft i…

Read more >> Why you need to learn async in .NET

Why you need to learn async in .NET

I had an opportunity to teach a quick class yesterday about what’s new in .NET 4.0.  One of the topics was the TPL (Task Parallel Library) and how it can make async programming easier.  I also stressed that this is the direction Microsoft i…

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HOWTO: Change which “.testsettings” file Visual Stuido 2010 uses

I’m blogging this mainly for historical reasons.  I just spent over 30 minutes trying to figure this out.  Well, the first 10 or 15 minutes was getting code coverage enabled in Visual Studio 2010.  There’s plenty of coverage on that …

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HOWTO: Change which “.testsettings” file Visual Stuido 2010 uses

I’m blogging this mainly for historical reasons.  I just spent over 30 minutes trying to figure this out.  Well, the first 10 or 15 minutes was getting code coverage enabled in Visual Studio 2010.  There’s plenty of coverage on that …

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HOWTO: Change which “.testsettings” file Visual Stuido 2010 uses

I’m blogging this mainly for historical reasons.  I just spent over 30 minutes trying to figure this out.  Well, the first 10 or 15 minutes was getting code coverage enabled in Visual Studio 2010.  There’s plenty of coverage on that …

Read more >> HOWTO: Change which “.testsettings” file Visual Stuido 2010 uses

HOWTO: Change which “.testsettings” file Visual Stuido 2010 uses

I’m blogging this mainly for historical reasons.  I just spent over 30 minutes trying to figure this out.  Well, the first 10 or 15 minutes was getting code coverage enabled in Visual Studio 2010.  There’s plenty of coverage on that …

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Nuget could be more usable outside of visual studio

This is a reply to http://blog.davidebbo.com/2011/05/thoughts-on-installing-and-updating.html   I think you are wrong. Everything in this post points out that you were wrong to base nuget on DTE. The points here do explain "why this isn’t supported today" but it sounds … Continue reading

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Updates to Nino’s .hgignore files for Visual Studio

As I move more of my repositories from SVN to Mercurial, I’m constantly referring to Nino’s sample .hgignore file he provided for Visual Studio developers.  I always start with his file but add a few more lines and thought I’d share them her…

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