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For those who like me didn’t know about this hidden gem: You can now set Tracepoints instead of just Breakpoints in VS2008. Here’s the difference between the two as described on MSDN: “Breakpoints tell the debugger that an application should break, pause execution, at a certain point. When a break occurs, your program and the ...

See here http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2008/04/29/hacking-visual-studio-to-use-more-than-2gigabytes-of-memory.aspx

A colleague of mine this week showed me his code coverage as being over 94% for his production code, which impressed me so much, it spurred me on to ensure that all code paths in my code from now on go blue instead of red when testing with Team coverage, using the Test driven .NET addin for visual studio 2008. Not sure what I'm on about, then ...

xmlDocument.SelectNodes with xmlns="..." Spent most of today wondering why I couldn't update a connection string in a web.config file using xpath which had the default namespace for xmlns  defined at the root of the config file. e.g. <configuration ...

For a blog detailing all the new features with.NET3.5 and Visual studio 2008, including javascript intellisense and //<reference> syntax,check out Scott Gu's blog post here.  http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-and-net-3-5-released.aspx

Was just reading on Scott Gu's blog about the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5, and came across an excellent description of the new extension methods feature in .Net 3.5. I have to say that until I saw this blog post, the quick overview from Mike Taulty at TechEd lost me somewhat as to what the purpose of these extension methods is, ...

It has been a busy time here at Conchango as we've been making plenty of changes to get Scrum for Team System working on Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server and also incorporating changes driven by community feedback and usage of the plugin on our own development projects. We should be ready to release after we ...

The Moth http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2007/11/top-10-things-to-know-about-visual.html - The Moth as he's known, shows us his top ten things to know about visual studio (trust me this is not all about linq)   Ingo Rammer - Debugging tools http://blogs.thinktecture.com/ingo/archive/2006/08/05/414674.aspx - Ingo ("The ...

If you're copying from specs where the BA has the replace hyphens with dash setting selected in Microsoft Word (which is checked by default), then be careful if you copy that generated dash character into your .master page file. I've found today when you hit save on the – (Alt + 0150 in notepad) character in a .master page file ...

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil.exe /DesignMode /u /ShowCallStack /Configuration="C:\Data\Merrick\Projects\Data Access Guidance Package\Data Access Guidance Package\Data Access Guidance Package\bin\Debug\\Data Access Guidance Package.xml" "C:\Data\Merrick\Projects\Data Access Guidance Package\Data Access ...