David Anderson is a software engineer with expertise in C#, .NET and other Microsoft technologies, and this is his blog.
To build SSDT projects with a build server you can use devenv.com or devenv.exe, but not MSBuild.exe because it is not supported by the SSDT tools for Visual Studio 2015. Unfortunately that means installing a licensed copy of Visual Studio…
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I missed the punch (original source), but on January 30th Microsoft announced the release for Visual Studio Update 2 CTP 2, which brings four key areas of improvement. Agile Planning Quality Enablement Line of Business Development Developer Experience Agile Planning…
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If you have tried to create a new Team Project from Visual Studio 2010 against a TFS 2012 server, you have undoubtedly encountered this error message. After doing some research, it’s quite apparent that some changes were made to Team…
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Get it now. Released on 9/5/2012. I personally have been waiting a while for this, and now I can use Visual Studio 2012 without my eyes hurting so much.
Apparently there is a registry edit to remove the all capital lettering for the main menus in Visual Studio, and get the normal pascal casing by changing the value of the following registry entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General\SuppressUppercaseConversion to REG_DWORD value: 1
Otherwise known as Visual Studio 11 during the beta period, you can now download the release candidate from Microsoft. The primary complaint during the beta was that the new light and dark themes had no color, they were purely monochrome…
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The Visual Studio team has posted some updates on the Visual Studio blog regarding the feedback we have all been providing them about the beta. Personally, I don’t mind the new Visual Studio themes (the light and dark themes), but…
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I am definitely posting about this, because it annoyed the living crud out of me. If you are like me, you often have heavily modified your Visual Studio settings to your likings. This includes environment settings, user settings, and the…
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