alkampfer on January 9th, 2012

I really like WPF for showing directly in the Visual Studio Output folder all binding errors, but one annoying stuff is that the output windows is usually crowded with all sort of stuff, so you have an hard life identifying the binding errors from all the other output contained in there. Since Visual Studio 2010 [...]

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alkampfer on September 28th, 2011

Visual Studio has the concept of grouping files together a feature used mainly from code generation tools to groups generated files under the main file, but this feature can be used even for your class, as shown in Figure1. Figure 1: Two code files nested inside program.cs There are a lot of reasons to group [...]

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alkampfer on August 17th, 2011

This is the third post on the series “create a macro to Attach to Local IIS”. The last modification I want to implement is the ability to list all the w3wp.exe active processes, if more than one process is present, I want it to show a list of all IIS processes and let the user [...]

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alkampfer on August 16th, 2011

I’ve already blogged about the creation of a macro that permits you to attach to IIS worker process pressing a key combination. This approach does not work if you have multiple w3wp.exe processes that are actually running into your machine, because the macro only attach to the very first of them. A simple and stupid [...]

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alkampfer on August 10th, 2011

As I stated previously, the capability of Visual Studio to use Macro is probably one of the less known feature and one of the coolest. Thanks to macro you can automate standard task you do in VS to speed-up your everyday coding experience. Since I work heavily with WCF services hosted in IIS and Web [...]

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