Visual Studio

Consolas: try a new font for Visual Studio

Saturday, April 26th, 2008
I’ve just downloaded a new font for Visual Studio. It’s called Consolas and I think I like it. You can get it here. According to the blurb: Consolas is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced font is specified. All characters have the same width, like old typewriters, making it a good ... read more

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Editing a project file as XML

Friday, February 8th, 2008
I sometimes need to edit a *.csproj file as XML. However, there isn’t an option for doing so in Visual Studio. Or so I thought. I often end up opening the *.csproj as a text file from explorer, but then of course, I lose all the Intellisense goodness. Perhaps I’m slow but it wasn’t until today that ... read more

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Error uninstalling VS 2008 Beta 2

Sunday, November 25th, 2007
I’ve just had a bit of a pain uninstalling Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 on Vista. I followed Scott Guthrie’s steps for uninstalling it, but when I tried to uninstall VS 2008 itself I got the following error: Error 1325.’WebDesignerCore’ is not a valid short file name. Needless to say, a brief episode of profanity ensued. ... read more

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Visual Studio and the Evil Unit Test Wizard

Sunday, July 16th, 2006
I fancy a bit of rant. And today’s punchbag is Visual Studio’s Unit Test Wizard. <rant> It is evil and it should be dropped from the product. My previous company outsourced the development of a software project and I ended up reviewing the code from the first iteration. I had concerns about some of the code; one concern ... read more

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NUnit and Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2

Thursday, August 11th, 2005
I was struggling to get NUnit 2.2 to work with a VS2005 Beta 2 project. I kept getting a BadImageFormatException when I tried to launch NUnit-GUI.exe. The solution was to add the following line to the <startup> tag of nunit-gui.exe.config (and nunit-console.exe.config if you are using it from the command line): <supportedRuntime version=”v2.0.50215” /> EDIT: For the final ... read more

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