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Category Archives: Reviews
Practical Debugging for .NET Developers book review
Nobody wants to waste unnecessary time on debugging and the recently published “Practical Debugging for .NET Developers: Tools and Techniques to debug and solve real-world problems in .NET” book by Michael Shpilt will arm you with tools, techniques and ideas … Continue reading
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Vertical tabs in Visual Studio 2019 16.4 Preview 2
The latest Visual Studio 2019 preview, released yesterday, adds the vertical tabs layout option to the core product: You can select it in options or right clicking a tab: In the options you can now additionally select Alphabetical tab sorting … Continue reading
Extensions in the main Visual Studio 2019 menu
In Visual Studio 2019 all extensions previously located in the main menu are moved into the Extensions menu: It adds unnecessary clicks when you actively work with these extensions. Luckily, Evgeny K released yesterday the Extensions in Main menu extension … Continue reading
Most Popular Development Environments
According to Stack Overflow developer surveys for the last three years (2016 2017 2018), Visual Studio retains a high position around 35%: Visual Studio Code demonstrates impressive growth to the top from 7.2% to 34.9%. It will be interesting to … Continue reading
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Make indentation in code more readable with IndentRainbow
IndentRainbow extension for Visual Studio 2015/2017/2019 by Marcel Wagner shows rainbow colors for different levels of indentation in your source code: It improves code navigation especially in complicated code with two spaces of indentation. The colors and the number of … Continue reading
Breaking IDE changes in Visual Studio 2019
Two weeks before the RTM launch event, Visual Studio 2019 release candidate demonstrates new functionality that may change your workflow currently available with Visual Studio 2017. I’ll demonstrate differences comparing latest Visual Studio 2019 Community RC.2 with Visual Studio 2017 … Continue reading
From Code Bubbles to Code Tiles: Working with multiple code fragments without switching tabs
Code Bubbles research in 2010 demonstrated how seeing a sizeable number of functions concurrently can significantly reduce a task completion time by minimizing navigation interactions, offloading limited working memory, comparing and understanding functions together, seeing calling relationships, improving ability to … Continue reading
Innovative C# debugging experience with OzCode v4
Last week, in a Visual Studio Toolbox episode on Channel 9, Omer Raviv highlighted most useful features of the OzCode C# debugging extension for Visual Studio and announced upcoming version 4 introducing a live debugger accessible from a web browser. … Continue reading
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Use actual type names with Var Replacer
If you prefer to see actual type names instead of implicit type var, the new Var Replacer C# extension for Visual Studio 2015 by Peter Spada is a must have. It is implemented as a standard analyzer with a code … Continue reading
ReSharper C++
JetBrains last month released ReSharper C++ – a Visual Studio extension offering refactoring, navigation, code inspection, quick-fixes and code generation for C++ developers. It doesn’t support C++/CLI and thus of no help for my projects, but for pure native C++ … Continue reading