Ben Griswold on December 23rd, 2009

By default, the ReSharper cache is stored in the solution folder.  It’s one extra folder and one extra .user file.  It’s no big deal but it does clutter up your solution a bit – especially since the files provide no real value. I prefer to store the ReSharper cache in the system Temp folder.  This [...]

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Ben Griswold on April 1st, 2009

If you have been following along with ASP.NET MVC, you know testability is a big part of the story. This fact is really driven home when the option to create a test project immediately follows that of a ASP.NET MVC Web Application. This is all really cool – especially the flexible test project templates. Out [...]

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Ben Griswold on February 18th, 2009

ClickOnce is pretty simple to get going once you know where to click (no pun intended.)  Here’s a down and dirty, quick start guide on how to implement ClickOnce in your application: First, create a sample application in Visual Studio.  The attached sample is a WPF application using VS 2008.  ClickOnce configuration is managed through [...]

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Ben Griswold on February 18th, 2009

Though the ability to debug Javascript in Visual Studio is great, perhaps you’ve noticed this feature can grind your development/debugging to a near halt.  Well, here’s what you need to do if you wish to be productive again. Enable the following IE setting and you too can save yourself hours of debugging time: IE  > [...]

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Ben Griswold on January 6th, 2009

Late yesterday afternoon, I updated my project source and was met with the following error when attempting to build the solution: The target “RunCodeAnalysis” does not exist in the project.    If you have encountered this error, you know the Error List provides little help as the error description isn’t accompanied by a filename, line number [...]

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Ben Griswold on December 11th, 2008

I’ve publicly praised SubSonic and SSMS Tools Pack, but I haven’t posted adequate information on how one installs and uses the tools for their own development.  A colleague of mine was lucky enough to inherit my application recently and having this information documented would have come in really handy.  All the same, I gave a [...]

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Ben Griswold on December 11th, 2008

Scott Guthrie recently posted about a cool new ASP.NET server control that can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios. If you had a look at the ASP.NET Charting Control offering, you may have noticed how obnoxiously similar the charts and sample project looks compared to that provided by [...]

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Ben Griswold on October 20th, 2008

Visual Studio 2008 allows one to open an existing website by navigating File > Open > WebSite.  Alternatively, one may also use the following shortcut: Shift + ALT + O.  But let’s say you would like to open a website by a right-click folder option. Here’s how to do it using a VS Macro and [...]

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