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I have been in vacation for the last 2.5 weeks. Myself and my Fiance in a vehicle driving around the united states. We've done the popular route - San Francisco --> Los Angeles (Through Highway 1, Amazing!) --> Las Vegas A lot of ruckus in that time (tech-wise), good vacation time :) I came back and noticed I have got like 150 unread blog posts to which I'm subscribed to - crazy! It will take some time until I get a grasp upon everything. Anyway - Some new Hotfixes!! 1) Flase C# compilation...
I had no idea.. but but.. but but.. :) Great thing! Check Scott's post for all the details. " What's the story? Well, T4 is a code generator built right into Visual Studio. To be clear, you HAVE THIS NOW on your system…go play. Now's the time to introduce code generation to your company. If you're doing something twice or more, manually, in your company, generate it. "
Almost every project I write has a configuration file and its content varies from one environment to another. In this case, managing multiple configuration files can make life a lot easier. There are different approaches for doing this, I'll link to a demonstration made by Scott Hanselman a while back - Click Here . In short : 1 - Create configuration builds. 2 - Add a batch file at the root of the project as written below. 3 - Add a Pre-Build action to execute it. The batch file 'copyifnewer...
When you're trying to customize existing CommandBars and Menus in Visual Studio, you can most obviously find a command bar by its Guid or Name. The problem with going with Name is that it isn't unique and consistent through different versions of Visual Studio. That being said, You need to go by the Guid identifier. How do you know each command bar's Guid though? Well, read the useful references below. (The last one answers that question) Useful References : Get project CommandBar in VS...