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The first thing I do when creating a new project in Visual Studio (regardless of type) is change the project name, assembly name, and default namespace.  I like for the names of all these to be consistent.  However, I have noticed in Silverlight...
I was doing some SharePoint mentoring a while back and I noticed that some developers don’t know about a couple handy items found in various context menus that that I use on a daily basis.  Specifically I’m talking about a few things in the context...
I saw this feature in Visual Studio again the other day and honestly I had kind of forgotten about it.  After discussing it with some colleagues, most of them didn’t even know the feature existed.  What I am talking about is the ability to create...
Anyone else out there notice that if you add an generic handler to your project that it won’t compile?  It appears to be an issue with the template included in Visual Studio and it may have been resolved in a service pack but currently I don’t think...
Last night, I had the opportunity to speak at the Tulsa .NET Users Group .  I spoke about automating web testing using Visual Studio Team Test.  This is usually the post where I post my slides and code samples, but this talk did not have any...
Next week on April 27th, I have the privilege of speaking about Automated Web Testing using Visual Studio Team Test at the Tulsa .NET Users Group . This is an updated version of the talk I originally gave about four years ago at DTG. At the time, I gave...
I try to stay away from posts like these that don’t stick to how to do something, but I do entitle myself to one or two a year, so here it is.  My rant today is about organizations that don’t allow developers to develop using the latest technology...
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I have been working on creating a new Windows Server 2008 virtual machine lately, so I decided to grab the latest version of VSeWSS 1.3 .  I immediately encountered the following error when trying to install. Please wait while the installer finishes...
First of all I would like to say this tool has improved quite a bit since the last version. However, I still feel that it has a long way to go before a SharePoint developer would actually consider using it. The functionality I am targeting today is the...
I have been building a large number of InfoPath Form Templates in Visual Studio 2008 lately and I have discovered it is can be quite the exercise in frustration when you want to put your files in TFS (or any source control for that matter). There are...
Back in February when version 1.1 of the Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint came out, I really complained about the lack of support for Visual Studio 2008 and Windows XP / Vista. Version 1.2 finally came out so I decided to look and see if operating...
LINQ to SQL has already proved to be extremely easy to use to create object relational mappings when you have an existing database schema using the Object Relational Designer. This designer is good, but you may not want something that is autogenerating...
After talking to many different developers, I appear to be one of the few ones that have gotten remote debugging to work with a reasonable success rate. That is why I have decided to post on it today. Everything I am writing today is based upon my experience...
Kind of a weird tip here, but I have ran into a situation where I have needed to do this. Basically, I have had an existing class library (for SharePoint development) and for some reason, I have decided I need to add ASP.NET file types to it (i.e. User...
At the ODC (where I should be this week), Microsoft announced version 1.1 of the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services. This brings a lot of great new project templates and the ability to edit wsp files. What is it lacking? Well...
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