Solution Events in VS11 AddIns

Posted on 17 April 2012 by Manuel Riezebosch

For those of you having problems with your addin in Visual Studio 11 where the EnvDte.SolutionEvents is not fired: I have the solution! It’s all about interfaces Forget about the (old school?) SolutionEvents. By digging around in the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop namespace Continue reading →

Find the location of MSBuild and GacUtil (when extending the build)

Posted on 5 May 2011 by Manuel Riezebosch

A useful helper class from the Microsoft.Build.Utilities (v4.0) assembly: ToolLocationHelper. With this helper it is easy to retrieve the location of MSBuild.exe and gacutil.exe. //Gacutil: ToolLocationHelper. GetPathToDotNetFrameworkSdkFile("gacutil.exe", TargetDotNetFrameworkVersion.VersionLatest) //MSBuild: ToolLocationHelper. GetPathToDotNetFrameworkFile("msbuild.exe", TargetDotNetFrameworkVersion.Version40) Use the overload with DotNetFrameworkArchitecture to retrieve the Continue reading →

The Build Explorer Improved (TFS2010)

Posted on 3 February 2011 by Manuel Riezebosch

Update: I published the source code and download on CodePlex: http://buildexplorer.codeplex.com Recipe For a Better Build Log Viewer The build explorer of Visual Studio 2010 can be quite useless when your build is becoming large. The performance is dramatic and Continue reading →

TFS2010: Ordering the Build Process Parameters On The (Build) Definition

Posted on 30 November 2010 by Manuel Riezebosch

Shameless repost. Jason Prickett answered my question. Thanks, Jason

Using the AspNetDevelopmentServer attribute in combination with TeamBuild

Posted on 26 October 2010 by Manuel Riezebosch

Just two statements: Everyone should unit test (or unit integration test, for the purists) Everyone should use TeamBuild (or another nightly build infrastructure) From this we can derive the following statement: Everyone should unit test in combination with TeamBuild! Continue reading →