Visual Studio 2013… installed
NDepend 5 … installed
Balsamiq 2 …installed
Next up ReSharper 9. However I have chosen to go for superbly priced ReSharper Ultimate which gives you oodles of tools for .NET and the promise of ReSharper for C++ in the future.
And comes with a rather nifty new installer… which hopefully is going to leave my environment working for Visual Studio 2008 for some Windows CE projects we are advancing in 2015…
ReSharper is awesome … but it also likes plenty of CPU and memory.
If you find yourself struggling on a virtual machine, then it is worth knowing that you can very easily suspend ReSharper.
There are nifty commands you can use from the Command window such as ReSharper_Suspend (or map them to keys) as well as a big button under Tools.Options.
…can be found at http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/umbraco-v6-mvc-razor-cheatsheets
Very handy when you are living in a world of dynamic expressions and google results which span v4, v5, v6 and v7.
Currently “enjoying” a spot of tree traversal from @CurrentPage in a PartialViewMacroPage
Enjoy
I needed to populate a database I’m designing with some test data and thought to myself “LightSwitch will be ideal to knock out some screens”.
One hour later I got a LightSwitch screen to actually display! Until then all I got when running it in Desktop mode (the default) was a blank window hosting Silverlight (right click to verify)
After lots of searching and playing around I found the answer near the end of this very long thread.
Now, when this happens again I will be able to find my own post to resolve it! Enjoy!
P.S. This isn’t specific to Visual Studio 2012 … but the post title corresponds to how I was searching :-)
Following on from nice touch #1…
I disliked the way old versions of Blend relied on something as a subtle as a few pixels of colour to tell you something relatively important.
Circa 2010
Circa 2013
although admittedly this doesn’t appear to be universal across all properties.
Thank you.
[Really I’m just testing out twitterfeed which has failed for me… but I needed something to post on :-)]
I’m just skimming through some blend tips by Mike from 2010 and spotted a nice touch in Blend for Visual Studio 2012 I hadn’t noticed before (amongst no doubt hundreds of improvements :-))
When working with grids and rows (or columns) you now get a lovely visual indicator with in place editing, rather than needing to visit properties.
circa 2010 (from this post)
circa 2013
When you create a new Windows Store project in Visual Studio 2012 it “helpfully” turns on one Capability in the manifest – “Internet Client”.
Which is great … if you use the Internet.
But… having this turned on means your application must have a privacy policy to be approved for the Windows Store else it will fail submission. There are other reasons why you might need a privacy policy – but this one has tripped up many development teams.
If you don’t need it, turn it off.
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