by Nate Lowry | Jun 28, 2012 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
Do you have a unit test that you don’t want to run in the nightly build? No problem. Just add the TestCategory attribute to your test and give it a “DontRunWithBuild” name or something else memorable. In Visual Studio, go to the Team Explorer, right-click on the build...
by Nate Lowry | Oct 27, 2011 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
Our first group blog post! Here are some of the DPL team’s favorite shortcuts for saving time in Visual Studio 2010. Hopefully you’ll find these as useful as we do. Note that these work when you’re using the standard C#.NET keyboard layout, which is...
by Chad Michel | Oct 20, 2011 | Software Engineering
Windows services are really cool, but they can be a little bit of a pain to work with. To debug a windows service, the typical model requires you to attach to the services process. This is incredibly annoying after you do it for the 10th time, but the good news is...
by Adam Miller | Sep 29, 2011 | Development Methodologies & Best Practices, Software Development Tips & Tricks, Software Engineering
Have you ever wondered if your custom data access code is any more efficient than simply loading a DataTable? Not that I’d recommend using DataTables except for certain situations, but Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate makes it easy to load test your data access...
by Paul Bauer | Jun 23, 2011 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
This post introduces Microsoft’s Feature Builder Power Tool (Feature Builder) and describes its major components. Feature Builder is a Visual Studio Extension that allows a developer to quickly create a feature extension for Visual Studio 2010 (VS). By...
