There is one extension to Visual Studio that you ABSOLUTELY NEED!!! And its the Productivity Power Tools. Go to TOOLS –> EXTENSIONS AND UPDATES and get it from the gallery. You will find it for any VS version that you are working with and its totally free! https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/34ebc6a2-2777-421d-8914-e29c1dfa7f5d The visual studio team who wrote the […]
This .NET Power Tip makes me bang my head against the wall over and over again! How many times have I watched developers write line after line of C# code to create a structure that matches the structure of an XML or JSON document in classes? I can tell you, it was not just once […]
If you are interested in the new debugging and profiling features that came with Visual Studio 2015, check out my article on www.simple-talk.com: https://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/visual-studio/debugging-and-profiling-in-visual-studio-2015/ Simple talk is the “technical journal and community hub from Redgate”. I urge you to check it out if you are interested either in Sql Server, .NET, Azure or all of […]
Today I delivered a session on Troubleshooting of WPF applications using the in-the-box tools of VS2015. The slides can be found here: ManuelMeyer DDC2015 WPF Troubleshooting mit VS2015 After defining the terms “debugging” and “profiling”, I showed new but non-WPF debugging features available in Visual Studio such as PerfTips, 64bit Edit & Continue, Watch Window […]
This blog post covers a few tips for holding presentations that include some activity in Visual Studio, such as live coding. It explains how to switch VS into presentation mode with a single command and how to store your code snippets in the toolbox. In about 80% of the presentations that I have witnessed so […]
I wrote an article for the August 2015 edition of Windows Developer Magazin that introduces the new debugging features in Visual Studio 2015. I has recently been published online for everybody to read. If you are interested in debugging in VS2015, go check it out (note: it is written in German): https://entwickler.de/online/windev/visual-studio-2015-wpf-xaml-debuggen-168386.html The article presents […]
There have been a lot of improvements in the troubleshooting and especially profiling capabilities of Visual Studio over the last years. While in VS2010 the Visual Studio Profiler was restricted to owners of the premium and ultimate versions, the Visual Studio team made a clever move in shifting the profiler down into the professional versions […]
Working with Visual Studio 2008, I always end up with a total mess of code editor windows (tabs). These two tricks helped me a lot to keep things under control: 1. Track Active Item in Solution Explorer By enabling this setting, once you open the solution explorer, it will always be scrolled to a […]