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    Visual Studio 2008 Intellisense and Telerik.Charting

    By default the RadControls installer adds the Telerik.Charting assembly to the GAC on the machine where the package is installed, as the Telerik.Charting assembly is used by more than one package - RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and RadControls for Winforms. So, let's consider an example -- create a new web site and use at least one control from the suite. When you drag a control from the toolbox Visual Studio will automatically copy Telerik.Web.UI.dll to site's Bin folder. Telerik.Web.UI assembly refers to Telerik.Charting assembly. But as long as Telerik.Charting is in the GAC it will not be copied to the...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Visual Studio Macros for Dummies

    If you are doing serious software development you probably have automated builds (via TeamBuild or some other tool) which build all the build configurations you have, run all your unit tests, run code analysis rules, run source analysis rules and more. While writing code you probably want to have all those extra tools and checks turned off because they will drag your productivity down. When you are about to check-in, however, you will need to make sure your solution builds without errors in different build configurations as well as run all tests to make sure you are not about to...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 RTM is Live!

    That's right, SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 went live today. You can read about the highlights here, or just go download the service pack and check it out for yourself. WPF designer support in the IDE and WPF performance increases in the framework were big items delivered in this service pack. Also included is the ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, and support for SQL Server 2008. This release comes on the heels of the release of SQL Server 2008 just a few days ago....
    May 27, 2021 1 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    I'm back again, what comes next?

    Yeah, I know, it's been quite some time since my last post. The ideas keep coming though and I’ve just realized there is no better time for a QA to blog than ... the summer. Do you know why? Well, just because of the summer time! You know, devs are humans too and they also need to rest a bit. ;) I can at least stop bugging around for a while and post some nice, interesting content. I'm afraid the list of ideas for my future posts is already quite long. However, since I'd like to share the most fascinating ...
    May 27, 2021 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Visual Studio Tip: Starting the IDE Quickly & Other Quick Tips

    When you use a tool day-in and day-out you typically want it to be accessible as quickly as possible and to launch just the way you like it, with all your favorite bells and whistles ready to go. For those of us saving the world every day with our .NET applications, Visual Studio is no exception. So here are a couple of easy tips for fine-tuning Visual Studio to get you from the icon to the code just a little bit faster, as well as a few of my own preferred features and settings. Launch Tips 1. Get rid of the splash...
    May 27, 2021 3 min read