alkampfer on July 22nd, 2010

With Visual Studio 2010 we are expecting a great number on new adding, made possible from the new extension point offered by MEF, and in general with the migration of part of the interface to WPF. One of the most exiting addin is the Productivity Power Tool released by Microsoft. It has a great number [...]

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alkampfer on June 7th, 2010

Some minutes ago I installed Expression studio 4.0, while I’m working with a couple of solution in VS2008, when I close the solution and open another solution I see that I was not able anymore to work with test projects.
All test projects inside any solution appear as folder, and I was not able anymore to [...]

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alkampfer on May 22nd, 2010

Code Downloadable Here.
Visual Studio is really a complex and big product, but it is amazing to see how simple it is to write an addin to extend its functionality. First of all we have a dedicated project type for writing an add-in from inside Visual Studio (dogfooding)

Choosing the Visual Studio Add-in a Wizard helps [...]

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I installed on metal VS2010 RC, and when I tried to write the first line of code I see that intellisense failed to show parameter info.

This bring me back when I was young, and we have to remember all C stdlib functions because we used vi in linux to edit source file, but in [...]

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alkampfer on October 30th, 2009

I must admit that I’m absolutely not a fan of testing through UI. A good program keeps the business logic separated from the UI, so it is testable without passing for the UI. In the real world we have application written by others, or you can simply have to test UI control interaction. In these [...]

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