Tag Archives: visual studio

Integrating ASP.NET MVC into an existing ASP.NET Webforms application

By Matt Simner | Published: January 16, 2013

If, like me you’re not always blessed with the opportunity to build every application from scratch, you may find yourself wanting to introduce the wholesome goodness of ASP.NET MVC into an existing ‘classic’ ASP.NET Webforms application. Most tutorials out there concentrate on nice green field development. What follows is largely a reference for me to [...]

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NDepend – Visual Studio Addin: takes you as far as you want to go

By Matt Simner | Published: October 17, 2011

First of all I’d like to point out that I was kindly given a license by the folks at NDepend (not very often that sort of thing happens I can assure you!) and I’m under absolutely no obligation to write anything about it. In the beginning… The funny thing is that it was probably over [...]

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How to generate a list of Visual Studio Shortcuts

By Matt Simner | Published: April 22, 2009

I’d seen addins that list Visual Studio shortcuts before, but seem to have lost them.  I also used to use ReSharper, so memorised its shortcuts.  I’m now back to ‘naked’ Visual Studio, so am having to re-learn the standard shortcuts. I was surprised to find this article on MSDN that has code for a macro [...]

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Visual Studio Tips – Selecting Block Text

By Matt Simner | Published: October 20, 2008

I was just looking for a way to witch Visual Studio into ‘block select’ mode – having assumed that it ‘must’ be possible, and found this pretty useful (albeit old) Visual Studio Tips blog. My original question was answered here – can’t believe it’s a nice as holding down alt while you select…

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Visual Studio Documentation – Have your say

By Matt Simner | Published: June 6, 2008

Brad A’s just been highlighting the MSDN Survey to get opinions on how Visual Studio and MSDN documentation works (or doesn’t) for people.  I added my 2c and it made me think a little about how I access ‘help’ these days.  Here’s what I wrote in the ‘other comments’ (Q 14 I think). I generally [...]

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Getting the most out of ASP.NET Web Deployment Projects

By Matt Simner | Published: May 21, 2008

In my ongoing love (but mostly) hate relationship with ASP.NET Web ‘Site’s’ I’ve been using Web Deployment projects to make things more bearable.  I currently swap in connection strings from 3 files – one for each build configuration (debug, test, release – connectionstrings.debug.config etc ).  This works fine as per the doco on WDP.  I use [...]

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ASP.NET Web Site Project (WSP) vs Web Application Project (WAP)

By Matt Simner | Published: April 21, 2008

ASP.NET 2.0 originally came without support for the ‘traditional’ Web Application project that everyone had become familiar with in ASP.NET 1/1.1.  Some people liked the new approach as it affords more ‘on-the-fly’ updates, but obviously enough people ‘didn’t’ for Microsoft to release a patch for Visual Studio .NET 2005 to allow creation of WAP’s.  The [...]

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Free Visual Studio 2005 Addins

By Matt Simner | Published: February 4, 2008

I’m currently without ReSharper (eek), so am trying to make the best of it.  Looking around for VS 2005 addins (that I haven’t already got), I stumbled across a few resources…. Carl J has a list of Free Addins, and, wait – there’s another list… Not forgetting Hanselman’s (old) list I’m sure there’s more, but [...]

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Change the Default C# ‘Add Class’ template in Visual Studio 2005

By Matt Simner | Published: November 7, 2007

There’s a fairly major annoyance about VS2005 and the fact that when you create ‘New Class’ it effectively creates the class as private.  This article explains how to change it…http://mark.michaelis.net/Blog/ChangingTheDefaultItemTemplatesInVisualStudio2005.aspx

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ReSharper – Getting more out of it

By Matt Simner | Published: August 7, 2007

ReSharper’s got plenty of functionality (more of which I find and use as time goes on), but I found this on Joe White’s blog that is certainly a useful reference and taught me a couple of new things too..

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