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Showing posts with label visual studio 2005. Show all posts
Showing posts with label visual studio 2005. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Spell Checker for your code's comments

Comment Spell Checker

A spell checker for your comments in Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008. This is a nice tool, I hate looking stupid because of stupid spelling mistakes. When you build your project(s) the spelling mistakes show up under "Messages" (third tab in the Error List). Brought to you by: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2007/12/13/spell-checker-for-html-asp-net-jscript-vb-c-css-and-c-for-visual-studio-2005-and-2008.aspx#comments

Friday, October 26, 2007

Ramp Up

So, if you're an Aspiring Developer, Java Developer, VB 6.0 Developer or a developer with Visual Studio 2002/2003 then you have a good chance to ramp up to Visual Studio 2005. MSDN Ramp Up is a set of lessons for those who want to quickly learn and develop in VS 2005. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/default.aspx

I just hope they will have one for VS 2005 to VS 2008 soon.

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Developing Tools to use with VS

Helpful developing tools:

Process Monitor -
"shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names, reliable process information, full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation, simultaneous logging to a file, and much more."

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/processmonitor.mspx

Process Explorer -
"shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded."

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processexplorer.mspx

Auto Runs -
"has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys."

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/autoruns.mspx


Sources:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/progressive_development/archive/2007/10/09/motley-says-the-only-tool-i-need-is-the-debugger-part-1.aspx

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Visual Studio 2005 Add-In: Code to HTML

Ok, this is a very cool tool and time saving add-in for visual studio 2005. Just highlight the code you want to copy to html, right click > copy to html. It does the formatting, color scheme, etc..

http://www.jtleigh.com/people/colin/software/CopySourceAsHtml/




1 class WaterMarkToolTip : ToolTip


2 {


3 public WaterMarkToolTip()


4 {


5 this.OwnerDraw = true;


6 this.Draw += new DrawToolTipEventHandler(OnDraw);


7


8 }


9


10 public WaterMarkToolTip(System.ComponentModel.IContainer Cont)


11 {


12 this.OwnerDraw = true;


13 this.Draw += new DrawToolTipEventHandler(OnDraw);


14 }


15


16 private void OnDraw(object sender, DrawToolTipEventArgs e)


17 {


18 DrawToolTipEventArgs newArgs = new DrawToolTipEventArgs(e.Graphics,


19 e.AssociatedWindow, e.AssociatedControl, e.Bounds, e.ToolTipText,


20 this.BackColor, this.ForeColor, new Font("Arial Unicode MS", 8.25f, FontStyle.Bold));


21 newArgs.DrawBackground();


22 newArgs.DrawBorder();


23 newArgs.DrawText(TextFormatFlags.TextBoxControl);


24 }


25


26


27 }


Thursday, September 27, 2007

Interesing line count of MS Dev Products

Code sizes:
• Visual Studio 2005: 7.5 million lines
• SQL Server 2005: 3 million lines
• BizTalk Server: 2 million lines
• Visual Studio Team System: 1.7 million lines
• Windows Presentation Foundation: 900K lines
• Windows SharePoint Services: 750K lines
• Expression Blend: 250K lines
• SharePoint Portal Server: 200K lines
• Content Management Server: 100K lines
• Dynamics SL has 3.4 million Lines