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What to do when Visual Studio fails

For the last 24 hours I had problems compiling one of specific project. The project won’t compile because apparently: “O/R Designer validation failed for file: <FileName> .dbml Error: The operation could not be completed. Unspecified error”. The weird thing was that I didn’t change anything in that project, in fact that project was not changed since the beginning of this year when a single comment was added in one of the project’s files. It seems that the project was not to blame. Further checking...
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Refactor! – a free C++ refactoring tool

When I write .NET code I have Resharper to increase my productivity and help me generate and refactor code. I miss such a tool when I program in C++, I knew such tools exist but because I spend more time writing managed code I don’t want to purchase them. It seems that in C++ where every method is written at least twice (header and code) the environment is in desperate need of a proper code generation/refactor tool. Last week I discovered that Refactor for C++ is shipped as part of DevExpress DXperience...
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How to write a simple DXCore plug-in

DevExpress the creator of Refactor and CodeRush two great visual studio productivity tools provide a free library called DXCore that can be used to create rich plug-ins that can extend visual studio the same way their commercial products do. Until visual studio 2010 will be widely developers can use DXCore to extend visual studio and provide integration functionality without messing around with DTE and GUIDs. In this tutorial I will explain what is needed to write your first DXCore plug-in Prerequisites...

4 Reasons I can’t wait for VS2010

Although there is some time until the official release of Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft has been kind enough to provide us early adopters a beta version to play with. Fortunately for me in I had actual work to do using the new visual studio and decided it was a good fit for me. I especially liked these four new features of the IDE: It’s Fast – I don’t know if the final version will have the same performance but visual studio loads up quickly and loads a solution lightning fast. I only hope that the...

Visual Studio windows mania

This happened today while I was debugging a failing test using visual studio Weird...
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Fix - Visual Studio crash when running MSTest

Today during work I had a very annoying issue - whenever I've run the project unit test suite (using MSTest) Visual Studio disappeared. This is the first time I saw it crash like this without any error message or even an exception it just vanished. I've gone through the regular routine of restarting windows and re started visual studio but it didn't help, my helpful co-worker even suggested that I re-install visual studio 2008. Due to the fact that installing VS2008 would have cost me...
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