This is one of my favorite plug-ins for Visual Studio. In my opinion it works better than the Alpha drop down at the top of the window. For those of you that organize your source code this tool will be perfect.
There is a limit in 32-bit windows to only use up to 2GB of RAM. This site lists a hack to fix it both in the boot.ini (XP) and also in Visual Studio, although I haven’t been successful with the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE command yet.
Ya, i know, you can type “prop” + tab->tab but i like this better. It will create the public properties for a highlighted list of private members to the clipboard. You can then choose where to paste the results in your code.
For a complete description:
http://www.csharper.net/blog/property_manager_addin_for_visual_studio_2005.aspx
To download the VS 2008 Compatible version:
http://www.csharper.net/blog/visual_studio_2008_add_in_compatibility.aspx
Removed Added Google Friend Connect from to the site this weekend. Not sure exactly how it works, etc. But, time will tell I suppose.
Found this article written by an acquaintance on a few changes to the scrum default templates for Visual Studio. I find it a little easier than the default values.
http://crazedcodemonkey.blogspot.com/2008/12/comfortably-scrum-my-common-product.html
Found a brief, useful example of how to implement a simple plug-in based application via .NET today on CodeProject.
“A Visual Studio add-in that allows you to graphically design .NET Configuration Sections and automatically generates all the required code and a schema definition (XSD) for them.”
Here is a sample project which will show you how to send and receive JSON data from a WCF service using three of the most popular javascript libraries. You can do it without the libraries but why reinvent the wheel. Also, this is actually a VS2008 Studio Template so just download and drop the file into My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#\ and enjoy.
To use the template, goto File\New Project\Visual C# and look to “My Templates” and you should see WCF JSON.
I’ve been doing a bit of WCF lately and picked up on a few things that will be helpful for me to remember. To speed large transfers switch the messageEncoding on the binding to be MTOM, otherwise your data will get base64 encoded inside the XML.
Another good piece:
http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/Windows-Scripting/WCF-and-Hosting/3/
When you install visual studio 2008 along side Visual Source Safe 2005 you will need this update to enable the Open from Source Safe option from within visual studio.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181038(VS.80).aspx