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Decompiling external source code–Visual Studio
Introduction There are occasions where one needs to step into 3rd party source code – just to get an idea of what may be going on within their own application…
The located assembly’s manifest definition does not match the assembly reference
Introduction This is more of a maintenance issue than anything else. Often, you end up referencing open source / 3rd party assemblies – that need to be upgraded to newer…
VS Compilation Error -The item was specified more than once in the resources parameter
The Issue : Visual Studio throws the following compile time error on a project that includes UI controls (either WinForms or controls). The item was specified more than once…
TFS Error–Source File Could Not Be Opened (‘Unspecified error ‘)
Symptom File has already been deleted (from source control and from the filesystem). Yet – the file shows up in the Visual Studio solution (with a yellow warning icon next…
Free, Open Source UML Tools
Actually, seemed to serve my needs of producing a quick UML architecture diagram. It is free and offers an option to export the diagram as a ping image. This post…
Diffs and Merges–Better Tools for TFS
One of the most frequent tasks that developers face is ‘comparing’ (diff between) two versions of a source ; Another related task is that of merging two (or more versions of)…
VS 2010–View Call Hierarchy
Have you ever wanted to find all implementations of a particular interface method? Or all the overrides of an abstract method? In the past, this meant downloading a plugin such…
Inserting copyright notice into your source files
UPDATE : The ‘Macros’ is no longer found under the ‘Tools’ menu in VS2012. You can download this extension for VS 2012 that provides macros capability – though I found…
Visual Studio Plugins that you (read ‘I’) didn’t know existed…
Of these, the only one I had been using was
Searching through and Editing csproj files
Visual Studio’s capabilities, when dealing with .csproj files, are somewhat limited. It restricts users – both when searching for content in .csproj files – as well as the ability to…