Symptom: When building a VS 2005 Web Site Project you experience very slow build times – where compilation seems to mysteriously pause for 30+ seconds (or even minutes), before continuing each time you do a build or F5 of the project. This compilation performance slow-down might be the result of...

Symptom: When building a VS 2005 Web Site Project you experience very slow build times – where compilation seems to mysteriously pause for 30+ seconds (or even minutes), before continuing each time you do a build or F5 of the project. This compilation performance slow-down might be the result of...

This will be the last significant update to TestDriven.NET 2.0 before the RTM version. I would be very grateful if you could report any issues that you find! Please note this is the recommended version of TestDriven.NET for all versions of Visual Studio .NET. It is a better and more stable product than...

This will be the last significant update to TestDriven.NET 2.0 before the RTM version. I would be very grateful if you could report any issues that you find! Please note this is the recommended version of TestDriven.NET for all versions of Visual Studio .NET. It is a better and more stable product than...

Did a post over on TechTalkBlogs today about what I think the future may look like for some application development (and thought it interesting enough to cross post to from here). No real surprises, and not real deep, but would be interested in others views. http://techtalkblogs.com/blog/archive/2006...

Did a post over on TechTalkBlogs today about what I think the future may look like for some application development (and thought it interesting enough to cross post to from here). No real surprises, and not real deep, but would be interested in others views. http://techtalkblogs.com/blog/archive/2006...

Ok, I missed this, but MySql has joined the MS VSIP Program. This is all very interesting, but its behind the times. Sql Server, Oracle, and DB/2 can run CLR Objects inside the database. When will MySql run CLR objects within the database? http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/press-release/release_2006_29...

I am working on an ASP.NET server control, and one of the properties of that control will typically contain a name of a boolean property that the Page exposes. At runtime this boolean property is called/examined and some action is taken as a result, however at design time, I wanted my ASP.NET control...

I am working on an ASP.NET server control, and one of the properties of that control will typically contain a name of a boolean property that the Page exposes. At runtime this boolean property is called/examined and some action is taken as a result, however at design time, I wanted my ASP.NET control...

Here’s a tip I actually wanted to share some time ago, but kind of forgot about it until I got reminded by a recent post by Thomas Müller who I had nice contact with some months ago. In order to assign a keyboard shortcut to a Visual Studio command from code (e.g. in an add-in), one has to specify...