13
JUL
2009

Code coverage with Visual Studio

Code coverage is used to determine how effectively your tests exercise the code in your application. This way you can identify sections of code that are covered, not covered or partially covered by your tests. Visual Studio uses 2 different types of analysis, block-based...
08
JUL
2009

Enumerating project items in a Visual Studio solution

Often you have the need to iterate through a collection and most of the time the iteration logic is weaved with the action that need to be done. This is because we are used to program in an imperative approach. In some scenarios it’s better to use a functional approach and...
27
OCT
2008

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 CTP Available

With the PDC 08 going on you can download a CTP of Visual Studio 2010.
19
OCT
2008

Organize your NHibernate mapping files inside Visual Studio

NHibernate uses an xml file to describe the mapping. Typically it is embedded as a resource file inside your project and it has a consistent filename convention, namely <classname>.hbm.xml. Typically an NHibernate project has the following structure Would it not be nice if...
16
OCT
2008

Running MSTest without Visual Studio – Gallio to the rescue

In some cases it can be useful to quickly run your Microsoft unit tests on a machine where Visual Studio is not installed. For example on an end-user machine and/or during acceptance testing. Microsoft unit tests have a great integration with Visual Studio and Team Foundation...
22
NOV
2007

Visual Studio 2008 Released

Jihaaa, Visual Studio 2008 has been released on MSDN. If you want to have a nice overview of the new features in VS2008, take a look at this post from ScottGu. Take a look at the following downloads available for VS2008 Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit...
21
NOV
2006

Visual Studio .NET Macro for nesting project items

This macro enables you to nest project items inside Visual Studio .NET. Until now, there is no easy way to nest project items through the Visual Studio IDE, you can only do it by manipulating the project (.csproj or .vbproj) file and adding the DependentUpon element. Inside the...
26
OCT
2006

Visual Studio DSL/GAT – How to load a DSL model

On IStaySharp.NET I created an article that shows you, how you can load a DSL file. This is necessary if you need to access your model from GAT, a Visual Studio AddIn, custom library, etc. The last couple of weeks I am digging into DSL and GAT for creating a set of software...
01
FEB
2006

Visual Studio 2005 SP1

Microsoft announces on the msdn site that service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 will appear around Q3 of 2006.
15
NOV
2005

Unit testing with NUnit and Visual Studio 2005 (MSUnit)

On my current project we are developing a windows forms application in Visual Studio 2005. We are still using CruiseControl.NET for continuous integration and unit testing, because setting up a team foundation server would give an overhead right now. For unit testing we like to...