Using AppleScript to change the default location for saved screenshots. [More]

Quick instructions on making R#, StyleCop and MSpec play nicely together. [More]

To prevent the Unit Test Runner in R# from re-building projects every time you run a test or a set of tests, simply click on the Build Settings button in the Unit Test Sessions window and select Never Build.  

End of line caret placement in RubyMine. [More]

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]

A couple of weeks ago, I started getting a VerificationException on a newly created unit test project which had already a bunch of tests in it. The full message was: method [TEST_METHOD_NAME] threw exception. System.Security.VerificationException: Operation could destabilize the runtime. For the s... [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]

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]