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Running Ruby scripts in Notepad++. [More]

So Visual Studio 2010 has this cool new feature called Reference Highlighting. If you don’t know anything about it yet, go and read the excellent Visual Studio Tips & Tricks blog to find out how to use it. What Zain Nabousi’s post doesn’t say however is that you can also custom... [More]

Today my colleague Rob pointed out to me that enabling Code Analysis (aka FxCop) on our solution was slowing down the build time on his machine to a rather unacceptable level. After some very unscientific perf testing, watch in hand, we saw the build time increase by more than 20 seconds with code a... [More]

A lot of Developers who have never seen ReSharper in action often do not appreciate how much more productive they could be if they would start using it. Their arguments for not trying it out usually ranges from “I don't want to rely on a tool to do my coding” to “Why should I use R... [More]

Up until a couple of months ago, I’ve been coding at home either on my company laptop or my own PC. The problem is that neither are decent enough to do any kind of serious Development. I was constantly fighting the machines and grew increasingly frustrated with using sub-standard equipment. So... [More]

Some time ago, while reinstalling StyleCop for ReSharper, I had to restart Visual Studio in order to reload the add-in. I then realised that restarting VS actually requires quite a lot of ‘clicking’ around. First you have to exit the editor, then you need to launch Visual Studio again an... [More]

In my previous post I mentioned that I  usually work in full screen mode with all the toolbars removed to maximise the amount of code I can see on the screen. To activate full screen mode I just type Shift + Alt + Enter. Note that you can also squeeze in that little extra space by disabling the... [More]

As I tend to work mainly in full screen mode within Visual Studio with all toolbars closed, I use shortcuts quite extensively to execute standard IDE and ReSharper commands. Fortunately most commands already have shortcuts associated to them. However there are a few that I need to either map to new ... [More]