visual studio - Grant Winney

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Sep 27, 2019

Cannot remove System.Core.dll reference from a VS2010 project

Several years ago, a user on SO tried to add a reference to System.Core manually but couldn't. The "problem" was actually an intentional design choice, as explained by an MSFT employee in a Microsoft Connect post. Then MS killed off Connect instead of making it readonly, so here's a repost....

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Aug 20, 2018

How to select an earlier .NET version on Visual Studio for Mac (tl;dr: you can't)

Despite its marketing, Visual Studio for Mac is not the Visual Studio that millions love, ported to the Mac. Something that's absolutely trivial in standard VS, switching between .NET Frameworks, wasted several of my evenings. Maybe it'll help someone else....

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Jul 06, 2017

How to Unit Test using Visual Studio for Mac (it's easy!)

While working a code kata last month, I paired with someone to do it in C#. It was a good opportunity for trying out Visual Studio for Mac. Although I've previously kicked the tires on VS4Mac a bit, one of the things I hadn't tried testing out was, well.. testing. As it turns out, it's pretty easy!...

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Jun 01, 2017

A briefly longish tour of Visual Studio for Mac

Although I don't use Visual Studio daily anymore, I still fire it up now and again to try something out...

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Jul 17, 2016

How to Develop Python in Visual Studio... and Mix it Up with the .NET Framework!

I’ve been learning about the Raspberry Pi for a few months, occasionally writing about it. I usually start on...

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Apr 26, 2015

An Introduction to NDepend

Some tools run your code and report back the results of execution (“dynamic” analysis). NDepend parses your project and reports back statistics about the structure of your code (“static” analysis), including cyclomatic complexity, dead code, test coverage, etc. Let's take a closer look....

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Sep 16, 2014

How to get old extensions to work in newer versions of Visual Studio

After upgrading to a new version of Visual Studio, I found I was unable to install an extension I liked. The solution was easier than I thought it'd be!...

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Jul 24, 2014

Set "Find and Replace" as Default Search in Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2013 provides two search boxes, similar in functionality but differing considerably in design. The first one, accessible using...

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