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 [...]

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.NET 4.0 Beta Breaks WCF Activation

I suppose that’s why it’s a “beta” but I honestly only expected the .NET beta to break itself, not other applications. Here’s a better worded post than I feel like writing that describes the issue…
I’ve had a problem on my most recent Windows 7 install with getting the WCF activation to install. I kept getting [...]

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Visual Studio Post-Build Event Command Line

Just a reminder for myself on how to create a directory and copy a renamed file into it using the post-build event of Visual Studio.

rd /s /q “$(TargetDir)Temp”
md “$(TargetDir)Temp”
copy “$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).exe” “$(TargetDir)Temp”
rename “$(TargetDir)Temp\$(TargetName).exe” “SomeCustomerUsefulName.exe”
copy “$(TargetDir)Temp\SomeCustomerUsefulName.exe” “$(TargetDir)”
rd /s /q “$(TargetDir)Temp”

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Visual Studio 2010 Intellisense Missing? Disappeared?

I was just harshly reminded of the dark ages of software development, a time I only hazily recall as involving black-screened terminals that were constantly loosing, leaking, or not releasing something important, when I just tried to use Visual Studio 2010 only to discover that Intellisense wasn’t working. Not getting any further than “Hello Wo…  [...]

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta Download

Somehow I missed the VS 2010 Beta getting released a couple days ago…
It’s the next gen of next-gen applications. Download the Visual Studio 2010 Professional and Team System Betas and see for yourself how they’ve been designed inside and out to give you every advantage in creating groundbreaking applications — faster and easier than ever.
via [...]

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Setting Up Subversion Externals With TortoiseSVN

Instructions including screenshots for setting the svn:externals property using TortoiseSVN. This allows multiple repositories to be open and used in a single Visual Studio instance using VisualSVN. Slick stuff, so far this is working really well for us.
Just a tip I spent some time on figuring out: Found information today on how to use TortoiseSVN [...]

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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

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Web Load Testing Brownbag

There are many options available for testing and loading a web application. Two popular options are from Microsoft and Apache.
Follow Along
Demo files: download
Remote Desktop to: ECS500 (use your UOECS login information)
Test PHP Application: http://shoki/gallery/ (“admin”/”gallery”)
Test ASP.NET Application: http://shoki/wiki/ (“admin”/”screwturn”)
Microsoft
Visual Studio, Team Suite and Test editions contain enterprise-grade testing features.
Resources
Introduction to Web and Load Testing from [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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