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After a couple of days of trying to run a load test for a web service on several agents via Visual Studio 2008, I come out much wiser and with a few new bald-spots, where hair I pulled out in the process used to be. I got a few errors whose messages have nothing to do with what really happened, so here's...
Let's play a little game. To the left of this text are the five central icons from the Test Tools Toolbar in Visual Studio. Their commands are, in an unordered manner: Test List Editor, Test Runs, Test View, Code Coverage Results and Test Results. Connect the icon to the appropriate command, without...
I'd love to see this become a reality in the next version of Visual Studio: [Cross-Posted from Omer van Kloeten's .NET Zen , my English language weblog]
Got an exception being thrown with only its name being displayed in the output window? Want to catch that exception? Just click on Debug -> Exceptions (Ctrl D, E) and check the exception you want to catch whenever it's thrown: Now the debugger will catch any exception of that type, regardless...
[ Caveat : This is constructive criticism about XAML and the current version of WPF. They both have their strengths and things I love about them and they both may become better over time, but this is about what we have today.] After Tomer published his list of 10 Reasons to Love XAML , I wrote a long...
Whenever I teach classes or do demos, I get asked about the C# code snippets I use in Visual Studio, so I decided to release them, if anyone would like to use them. I've created a project on CodePlex and I'll try to update it whenever I write a new one or update the old ones. Nothing to release...
Sometimes you want to know a type's exact namespace and assembly (for instance, in order to find it in Reflector). Instead of waiting forever for Visual Studio's Help to load (that is, if you haven't already disabled F1 ) or searching Google for the answer, simply click on Go To Definition...
Today I discovered that the Windows Forms Designer in Visual Studio 2005 doesn't know how to handle generics. For instance, the following example: private class MyControl<T> : System.Windows.Forms.Control { } could not be dropped in a Windows Forms designer (more on that in a little bit). If you...