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Friday, July 07, 2006 12:07 AM

Column Guides in Visual Studio

A lot of coding guidelines specify the maximum length for a line of code. For instance in the CLR, we like to keep lines of code under 110 characters long. Visual Studio has a feature which lets you display a vertical line at the column of your choosing
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 7:00 AM

Visual Studio Tip: Editing Project Files

Earlier I mentioned tweaking project files -- something that a lot of people do just by opening the project file up in Notepad and tweaking it. Although it's a bit hard to discover, you can actually do this right within Visual Studio 2005, saving you
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Monday, April 24, 2006 10:00 AM

Sharing a Strong Name Key File Across Projects

v2.0 of the .NET Framework deprecated the use of the AssemblyKeyFileAttribute and AssemblyKeyContainerAttribute . Often times, these attributes were used to share a common key file across several projects. If you try to share key files using the Visual
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:52 AM

SN v2.0 Works With PFX Files

One enhancement to the v2.0 SN tool that may not get noticed right away is that it now has the ability to work with PKCS #12 PFX files in addition to SNK files. The logic here is that a self signed certificate stored in a PFX file is the moral equivalent
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:10 PM

Debugging Lightweight CodeGen in VS

Haibo just posted about his debugger visualizer for dynamic methods . This is a pretty sweet piece of code for anyone who uses lightweight code generation and needs to debug the code they've emitted. Basically it adds a visualizer to DynamicMethod objects
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Thursday, October 06, 2005 9:22 AM

New Security Features in Visual Studio 2005

Brian Johnson has a new article on MSDN about New Security Features in Visual Studio 2005 . Definitely worth a read -- he covers a lot of area, from Application Verifier, to ClickOnce, to PermCalc, right on down to unit testing.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005 12:02 PM

A Closer Look at the Simple Sandboxed AppDomain

Yesterday we took a look at Whidbey's new Simple Sandboxing API . At first glance this API does seem relatively simple, however when you start to look closer at the AppDomain that is created for your sandboxed code, there are a few surprising properties.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005 2:35 PM

Profiling Signed Assemblies

Ian Huff has an entry today about the problems you'll run into when using Visual Studio Team System to profile assemblies that have a strong name signature . He walks through the steps necessary to cause Visual Studio to resign your assemblies after they
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Monday, April 18, 2005 11:21 AM

Beta 2, Get Yer Beta 2

As I'm sure most of you have seen by now, today we announced the availability of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and SQL Server 2005 April Community Tech Preview. The release is a huge step over the old beta 1 bits, and can be found on MSDN . One of the nicer
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Thursday, September 23, 2004 6:02 PM

Finding Out The Current User in the Debugger

Every once in a while, while debugging multi-threaded applications that do impersonation, it becomes useful to figure out the context that the current thread is running under. This is especially useful when debugging server scenarios where connections
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Friday, July 30, 2004 12:24 PM

Whidbey's New SecurityException

One of the more difficult things to debug with .NET 1.0 and 1.1 is the security exception. With these frameworks generally the only information that you got was the state of the failed permission. Due to the complexity of debugging security problems,
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Thursday, July 15, 2004 2:26 PM

What Happens When My Application Throws An Unhandled Exception

There are several different behaviors that can occur when a managed application throws an unhandled exception. The two most common are to bring up an error dialog box, or to pop up the Visual Studio Just In Time Debugger dialog box. The first behavior
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Wednesday, July 07, 2004 1:44 PM

ClickOnce Bootstrapper Manifest Generator

David Guyer, from the VB.Net test team, has released his ClickOnce Bootstrapper Manifest Generator on GotDotNet . This tool allows you to generate manifests that describe any pre-requisites to install for a ClickOnce application. You can find more details
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Thursday, July 01, 2004 1:19 PM

New Debugger Features for Whidbey

Andy blogs about the new features in the Visual Studio 2005 debugger. Of all these, tracepoints seems the most exciting to me, although life will be made much easier with visualizers and the STL data display.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2004 9:43 AM

Whidbey Beta 1 Ships

Well, we've finally released beta 1 of .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 . In adition to the beta 1 release, we've also announced Express SKUs for Visual C++, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual J#, and SQL Server (as well as a web developer express SKU). The
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