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Sync your Visual Studio settings with Live Mesh!
29 June 08 10:29 PM | Laurent Duveau

Did you know that you can use Live Mesh to share and sync your Visual Studio settings between computers ? Here is how to do this in Vista (with Live Mesh client installed): Go to your VS2008 folder (usually C:\Users\ YourUserName \Documents\Visual Studio...

Filed under: Tips and Tricks, Visual Studio, Windows Live, Live Mesh

Pimp my IDE talk at EnergizeIT
25 May 08 12:09 PM | Laurent Duveau

Here is a link to download the content I used for my quick talk at EnergizeIT Toronto ("Pimp my IDE" aka customize Visual Studio 2008): The blog post I showed: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioProgrammerThemesGallery.aspx You can also...

Filed under: Canada, Tips and Tricks, Visual Studio, Speaking

Code snippets not versioned according to VS2008 Multi Targeting
22 March 08 12:38 AM | Laurent Duveau

I have reported a VS2008 issue to the VS Team regarding code snippets : I am a heavy snippets user, and noticed that they are not tied to multi targeting... I use VS2008 with ASP.NET 2.0 websites (not migrated to ASP.NET 3.5), but snippets are for ASP...

Filed under: Visual Studio

VS2008 and IE8 auto Js debugging mode
18 March 08 10:58 PM | Laurent Duveau

Here is a nice feature of IE8: Remember both "Disable script debugging" options you had to uncheck in IE to enable JavaScript debugging ? You no longer have to! You can now stay on default "script debugging off" mode in IE and when...

Filed under: Web Development, Visual Studio

Fix my CSS, win a Prize!
15 March 08 04:53 PM | Laurent Duveau

I was told that my blog does not display very well (or not at all) in Opera browser... Like most of you I don't have time for this, and community server's css are a real mess, so if someone takes time and send me the fixed css I will be happy...

Filed under: Personal, Visual Studio, Geek

[Cool Tool] VS Resource Refactoring Tool
02 March 08 11:46 AM | Laurent Duveau

The recently opened Visual Studio Gallery contains some free hidden Microsoft gems, Resource Refactoring Tool is one of them. Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the code to resource files. It works...

Filed under: Tools, ASP.NET, Visual Studio

Visual Studio Gallery
29 February 08 06:19 PM | Laurent Duveau

Microsoft has just released a new website for .NET developers : the Visual Studio Gallery. http://visualstudiogallery.com You can browse and download existing products & extensions for Visual Studio (any version). In the web category you will find...

Filed under: Community News, Tools, Visual Studio

Vista Sidebar Gadget Template
05 October 07 07:30 PM | Laurent Duveau

Tim Heuer has done a really nice Sidebar Gadget Template for Visual Studio. The structure you get when creating a new Web Site/VistaSidebarGadget from VS : Note that it creates one local folder (en-US) so you can easily add some more later, and it comes...

Filed under: Gadget, Visual Studio, Vista

Web Deployment Projects and Visual Studio 2008
12 September 07 11:39 PM | Laurent Duveau

I have been working a lot with Web Deployment Projects and even wrote articles on it, so I wanted to have a look at what comes with VS2008. It appears that unlike what I thought, Web Deployment Projects will not be part of VS2008. According to the Web...

Filed under: Web Development, Tools, ASP.NET, Visual Studio