Disable StyleCop settings for a project

Tools like StyleCop have their place in the world and I have nothing against using them to produce consistently formatted code. It kinda makes the person higher up in the … Continue Reading →

Nuget packages and source control

I use NuGet packages all the time for most of my projects. I ran into an issue on a project I am working on with another developer. We are using … Continue Reading →

Run Visual Studio 2012 as administrator every time

As a developer I spend my life inside Visual Studio. Since I installed Windows 8, I was having trouble opening web projects. Turns out that I need to run Visual … Continue Reading →

Unable to access IIS Metabase on Windows 8

After installing Windows 8, I found that my ASP.NET MVC projects won’t open in Visual Studio. This is the error thrown by Visual Studio 2012. My first reaction was to … Continue Reading →

WAT080: Failed to locate the Windows Azure SDK. Please make sure the Windows Azure SDK v1.5 is installed.

After installing Windows Azure SDK and Visual Studio tools November 2011, I got this error when compiling an existing Cloud project. WAT080: Failed to locate the Windows Azure SDK. Please … Continue Reading →

Visual Studio 2005 2008 2010 Put Curly Braces On Same Line

I have been looking at some code from Microsoft and I found that in C# they keep curly braces on the same line. This is also the preferred style in … Continue Reading →

Visual Studio 2010 Code Generation With Intellisense

Visual Studio 2010 provides a nifty little feature which let’s you generate code from within the editor. In this post I will show you how to use this feature. Imagine … Continue Reading →

Create Breakpoints With Hit Count In Visual Studio 2008

This post shows you how to use Breakpoints in Visual Studio with a hit count. Breakpoints can be described as bread and butter of debugging. They allow you to stop … Continue Reading →

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 First Look

For those who are following me on Twitter know how eager I was to get my hands on Visual Studio 2010 beta1. Today I downloaded it and installed it on … Continue Reading →

Writing Visual Studio 2010 Shell In WPF Reflects Confidence

Where are we today? Since its inception as Avalon I have dedicated countless hours to the technology we now know as WPF. I can probably say that I am one … Continue Reading →

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