Activating RDP access for Windows 10
Today I’ve installed the Technology Preview of Windows 10 onto my Xen Server. With the XenCenter program under an existing Windows 8.1 installation it was an...
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Productive work environments for F# development (under windows)
IDEs, Editors, .. Here are my favorites in descend order Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web yes! - it allows you free F# development, notably for libraries L...
F#
SharpDevelop, F#, missing “Send to F# Interactive” context menu
Situation, Problem During playing a little bit with these WPF MVC F# projects inside SharpDevelop I stumbled over the situation, that I could not send F# sni...
F#
SharpDevelop, F#, “Please ensure that the F# compiler is installed on your computer.”
Situation My private machine has Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop. This Visual Studio edition doesn’t allow to develop with F#. So I...
F#
Entity Framework: Connecting to a mdf user database file via localDB during script execution
Problem If you run the “Generate database from model” wizard and execute the generated script the destination database could be the wrong one (for instance m...
SQL Server
@Microsoft: please provide universal and professional concepts
Why such constructs are included in the csproj-Files? <CodeAnalysisRuleSetDirectories>;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Team Tools\Static...
Clean Code
Toolset agnostic build server and Silverlight projects
Problem Normally I try to have my continuous integration as most a possible toolset free to ensure that no local stuff could have an impact to my build. My S...
Code Analysis
Setup license stuff for PostSharp 2.1
Problem Normally PostSharp runs fine on unattended build servers. So on our global Jenkins continuous integration server PostSharp does the job. But on my lo...
Clean Code
MSB4067: The element <ImportGroup> beneath element <Project> is unrecognized.
Problem Our global Jenkins continuous integration server throws this error during compile step. My local TeamCity continuous integration server runs fine. Wh...
Code Analysis
Running StyleCop without an installation to empower continuous integration
Problem A continuous integration server should only have a minimal toolset installed. This ensures that no unwanted libraries could affect the build and othe...
Clean Code
xUnit runner eats system diagnostic output
Problem When using xUnit and constructs like Debug.WriteLine the DbgView-tool does not show the written output anymore. Solution Add a new Listener – for exa...
C#
Using NuGet in a MSBuild-target to have the packages at the last stand
Motivation Encouraged from the article “ Using NuGet without committing packages to source control ” I decided to wrap the NuGet-call in a MSBuild target ins...
Clean Code
Let ReSharper and xUnit work together
Getting the ressources First at all download xUnit http://xunit.codeplex.com/releases/ xUnit Contrib ReSharper http://xunitcontrib.codeplex.com/releases/ Thi...
Clean Code
Code Contracts: For unit test a manual rebuild is needed for toggeling “runtime checking”
Toggeling the checkbox “Perform Runtime Contract Checking” lets run the next application start with the new set option. But for unit test an explicit new bui...
Code Analysis
Suppressing Add-in-registration task during build process
If you develop ArcGIS Add-ins with Visual Studio under limited permissions you get during the build process an error, that the stuff could not be registered....
ArcGIS
Differences by pasting formatted text in Word and OneNote
By pasting formatted text in Word and OneNote both applications act a little bit different. Meanwhile Word supports RTF-formatting OneNote does not. OneNote...
C#
Installation experiences with NDepend under Win7/64 with restricted user permissions
Today Patrick gives me a new license for his static code analysis tool NDepend for my fresh machine with Win7/64. This platform is new for me, so some things...
Code Analysis
Searching the new FxCop-Release (10.0)
Today my FxCop-GUI stated, that a new release is available – but the link to this release is broken. After googling a little bit i realized, that the new rel...
Code Analysis
My own set of SuppressMessage-lines
StyleCop issues inheritedoc-comment Using <inheritdoc />-comment is not recognized by StyleCop. So this needs a suppression: // <inheritdoc /> [ SuppressMess...
Code Analysis
Specify a project-specific custom dictionary for FxCop build tasks and Visual Studio Team System static code analysis
Using a project-specific custom disctionary for FxCop and FxCop build tasks is very simple. The FxCopCmd call in the FxCop-target offers the parameter /dicti...
Code Analysis
Installing StyleCop for ReSharper
Installing StyleCop for ReSharper under an administrative account does not activate this ReSharper plugin under my developer account. A system analysis show...
Code Analysis
AgentSmith: suppressing spell checking warnings
If AgentSmith throws a warning that some term is not spelled correctly for this term the spell checking could be suppressed with: //agentsmith spellcheck dis...
Code Analysis
Working with Microsoft FxCop
Run FxCop as a post build event Since FxCop 1.36 it is possible to include FxCop in a post-build event. So FxCop runs after compiling in Visual Studio and al...
Code Analysis
ReSharper is not available
Today a colleague ask me to help. On his system all ReSharper menus are grayed out. Also the Visual Studio Add-In Manager does not show this add-in. He tried...
Code Analysis
Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 compatibility with ReSharper
In our team we have developers with Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. Often we have projects which must be coded by a mixed team. Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 comp...
C#
Using images and cursors in resources
Use strongly typed image and cursor resources in .NET applications to catch missing or renamed resources earlier and avoid fragile runtime lookups.
C#