Detecting Design-time in C#

Excellent, now I can detect Visual Studio design time anywhere in my code. (Make sure to read the comments, they provide a valuable correction.)
I came across interesting issue with one of our controls. I needed a different behavior during design-time and run-time. I was sure that .NET Framework has a nice solution for me, but [...]

Read Full Post »

VS2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions

This looks fun, I’d like a chance to give it a go sometime.
Today, the team released Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions – a new power tool to measure the performance of the portions of web applications that execute JavaScript inside the web browser.
VS2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions

Read Full Post »

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition

Like most applications, a database plays a critical role in what I’m working on. Fortunately, two higher-end versions of Visual Studio are supposed to provide a Microsoft security blanket for developing a database, managing and tracking changes to a database, and deploying those changes. (Among other things)
http://www.vitalygorn.com/blog/post/2008/01/Handling-Database-easily-with-Visual-Studio-2008.aspx
Unfortunately, Microsoft left the security blanket for getting these [...]

Read Full Post »

VSTS: DB Best Practices : Right sizing the master.dbschema file for better design time performance

A reference to the master.dbschema (or similar, see below!) is necessary for database projects in Visual Studio that reference system objects. Here’s how to add those objects without slowing everything down.
In the March edition of MSDN we provided an overview of Server Projects and how to reference the master.dbschema file to resolve references to system [...]

Read Full Post »