Sometimes Visual studio is trying to tell me that I shouldn't do what I'm doing at that very moment. This morning I had one of those episodes when trying to add items to the toolbox. I right-clicked on the toolbox and choose Add items. Suddenly visual studio is gone and I'm wondering what...
Since a couple of weeks I have been having quite a delay when deleting files in visual studio. First I thought it was my Visual Studio installation, but I had the same weird delays on my machine at home. After frustrating myself once at home by reinstalling visual studio without getting any results I...
This morning I had the problem that when I opened visual studio 2005 it started complaining about the fact that a workspace was already mapped to a specific path. Visual Studio somehow forgot that I had indeed mapped the TFS project to path on my harddrive and I had to manually fix the problem. To fix...
The other day I was experimenting with the guidance automation toolkit to build a new guidance package for visual studio. It all works kind of good, however if you change the name of the guidance package you got some real problems on your hands. After renaming the guidance package you are no longer able...
Visual Studio comes with snippets for VB 2005, but C# seems to be missing. Luckely Microsoft published a set on MSDN that you can download to make the snippets from VB available in C#. Heck, they even come with a license that allows developers to change the contents of the snippets. Personally I use...
Visual Studio 2005 comes with a device emulator v1.0 that you can use to test various applications. Under Windows Vista the emulator has a problem when using the cradle operation on the Device Emulator Manager. It simple doesn't connect to the host, even with the correct setup. The solution for this...
Although the colors of the editors in VS2005 are fine, there's always a better combination. So I grabbed google and started searching for a better scheme. I found the following site that has some colorschemes on it that are pretty cool. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000682.html And for...
Wix is great, but having to use the commandline tools is not so cool to do. So, to save time and effort I made a MSBuild target to do the heavy lifting. Be aware that I haven't fully tested all possible scenario's, so there might be some room for improvement. Installation To install the build...
There's something odd going on inside the ASP.NET designer of visual studio 2005. When you first open the designer it normally starts in markup mode, all is fine. But as soon as I move over to the Graphical designer surface it starts eating up a lot of memory and it takes 5 minutes just to build...