Confirmed Speaker at .NET DevCon Conference 2011

Dear all, It’s my pleasure to announce that I have been invited as a speaker for this year’s .NET DevCon conference on 6th and 7th June in Nuremberg (Germany). I’m looking forward to this great opportunity to meet a lot of interesting people! I am going to hold a session about productivty increasing Visual Studio [...]

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WADA 1.2 released – Improvements in Process Retrieval/Attach

Hi all, I just put onto the Visual Studio Gallery the new version 1.2 of WADA. Mostly, I tried to fix some stability issues when querying the processes after W3WPs crash or an IISRESET occurs.   WADA 1.1: IISRESET –> “Get Procs” –> No results –> Restart VS 2010 WADA 1.2: IISRESET –> Refresh Webapp [...]

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Visual Studio 2010: Breakpoints Improvements

Howdy people, This time we’re going to have a look at another small (but effective) improvement in Visual Studio 2010: The breakpoints got some new achievements, namely: Labeling breakpoints Searching for breakpoints (Breakpoints Window) Specifying hit counters Import/Export breakpoints Labeling is easy-to-use and newly available in Visual Studio 2010 (not in the Express Editions). Later [...]

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Visual Studio Productiviy Power Tools

Howdy folks, The Visual Studio Team recently released a set of installable extensions that help to improve the productivity while working with the new Visual Studio 2010. This set of extensions is called Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools, and it really keeps its promises. 1. Editor Improvements There is a set of features that directly [...]

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Visual Studio 2010 Keybinding Cards

Howdy all, Did you already check out the latest Keybinding Cards of the new VS 2010? If not, you can find them here:   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=92CED922-D505-457A-8C9C-84036160639F&displaylang=en   They are available for C#, C++, VB, and for the newly added F#. Here are my two of my favourite new keybindings:   1. CTRL + COMMA (,) (NavigateTo [...]

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C# 4.0: Optional and Named Parameters

Howdy there, Now it’s around a month, that Microsoft released the .NET framework 4 to the public – so I wanted to take the occasion to give you a quick view on two nice new features: 1. Optional parameters: You can specify any parameters to be optional by assigning it a default value directly in [...]

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Code Contracts & Pex: Assertions and Assumptions for Expressive Tests

Howdy people, Me again with some more information of how both Code Contracts and Pex can be used together to write expressive tests (while still specifying a (partial) specification of the code). In the course of this article wel’ll also cover Assertions and Assumptions. In order to point out only the necessary topics, let’s introduce [...]

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Visual Studio 2010: New Features Part 1: UI

Howdy folks, Here we are back again with an introduction of the new features of the upcoming Visual Studio 2010. Its release has been postponed to the 12th of April, so in the meantime we’ll have to stick to the Beta 2, which is pretty stable already. There are so many improvements that we’ll have [...]

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First Steps with Code Contracts

Hello all, Today we are going to talk about another exciting project from the Microsoft Research Labs: Code Contracts. It is a Design-By-Contract (DbC) system, that enables us as developers to formulate the expected behaviour of our code by directly putting it into the code. The main tools of applying Code Contracts are: Static checking [...]

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