Joining Xamarin
Back in 2001 I was making good bucks, programming in a language that I had grown to hate: Visual Basic 6.
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Fridathon: unstructured learning or hacking you can opt-in to do on any random Friday.
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OutDir vs OutputPath
Which one should you use? Seems like OutputPath is the way to go, since it’s the one that is specified on every project you create, right inside the Debug or Release configuration. [Read More] -
Smarter Visual Studio Template Authoring
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Complex traces you can actually understand by leveraging Activity Tracing
Activity tracing is part of a feature that was initially introduced with WCF, named End-to-End Tracing. Its underlying implementation, however, is baked into the XmlWriterTraceListener and does not depend on WCF in any way. Currently it’s only supported in the SystemDiagnostics implementation. [Read More] -
How to transform T4 templates on build without installing a Visual Studio SDK
The MS recommended way is to just use the Microsoft.TextTemplating.targets which come with the Visual Studio Visualization and Modeling SDK. It makes me slightly nervous that it requires a little known SDK that is hosted on http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/vsvmsdk rather than something more “official” like the MSDN Download Center, where the proper VS SDK lives. It also turns out to be absolutely unnecessary, since all you need is already installed with your base Visual Studio setup. [Read More] -
How to create a Visual Studio extensibility project that is compatible with VS 2010, 2012 and 2013
For most common project types, you can just create a project in VS2010 and open it in 2012 and 2013 just fine. For some others (like VS package or VSIX projects), you may find Visual Studio wants to perform a one-way conversion: [Read More] -
How to install a Visual Studio extension with templates via an MSI
The original story around VSIX deployment via an MSI was that simply copying it to the %VSInstallDir%\Common7\Ide\Extensions\Your Company\Your Product\Version was enough. But alas, devil is in the details, and a fairly complex matrix of supported and unsupported features depending on the deployment style is also available on MSDN. [Read More] -
High level overview of Visual Studio Extensibility APIs
If your head is dizzy with the myriad VS services and APIs, from EnvDTE to Shell.Interop, this should clarify a couple things. [Read More] -
Improving the state of the art in API documentation sites
Go straight to the site if you want: http://nudoq.org. You can then come back and continue reading [Read More] -
Contributing to OSS projects made easy
I recently came across what I believe is a missing feature (bug?) in Json.NET most excellent library: when using custom constructor, default values are not populated for properties [Read More]