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  • 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...
    July 28, 2008 3 min read
  • Productivity

    Visual Studio Tip: Creating and Consuming an Item Template

    These days there are a lot of cool ways for .NET developers to be more productive. From code generation to refactoring, there is never a shortage of plug-ins out there to help us in this goal. But let's not forget about the great tools and features already built into Visual Studio that we can use. One feature I have started using recently is the item template. Whether you know what an item template is or not, you use them in your every day development. Item templates are those pre-written files you add to your project whenever you need a new ASP.NET...
    July 21, 2008 4 min read
  • Productivity

    Tip of the Day: Remove the most annoying Visual Studio shortcut - F1

    Have you pressed F1 in Visual Studio? Did you wait a couple of minutes cursing it? I did. And I found a cure, a very simple cure - remove the F1 shortcut. Here are the simple steps: in Visual Studio -> Tools -> Option -> Keyboard -> find Help.F1Help shortcut -> remove F1 key binding. You are cured!...
    June 19, 2008 1 min read
  • Release

    Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is now available!

    You can check the post of Web Developer team for more detailed info. Here are few RadControls related details: ... Issue Many NBSPs added and tag name corruption when editing a page that uses Telerik controls (popular custom controls) Description When there are multiple register directives for the same namespace in different assemblies, multiple NBSPs may be generated in your page and your markup could possibly be changed incorrect. This can be ...
    May 13, 2008 1 min read