The Issue : Visual Studio throws the following compile time error on a project that includes UI controls (either WinForms or ASP.NET controls).

The item was specified more than once in the resources parameter. Duplicate items are not supported by … Continue reading →

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 to it). When one tries to compile, one sees the above … Continue reading →

http://www.devcurry.com/2010/06/free-open-source-uml-tools.html

One of the most frequent tasks that developers face is ‘comparing’ (diff between) two versions of a source file.  Another related task is that of merging two (or more versions of) files. The built-in comparer/merger in Visual Studio is extremely limited … Continue reading →

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 as Resharper or CodeExpress. With Visual Studio 2010, this feature … Continue reading →

I found a simple macro to help with this task. From Visual Studio, navigate to Tools—>Macros—>New Macro Project (This launches a new IDE)  – and copy and paste the code below.  When you ‘run (Debug)’ this macro, it will insert … Continue reading →

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc300778.aspx
 
Of these, the only one I had been using was TestDriven.net

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 ‘edit’ a csproj file. Part of the reason is that … Continue reading →

In VS2010, the Solution Navigator provides a Collapse All feature (as shown above), enabling you to collapse all projects within a solution. Unfortunately, the collapsed projects do not stay collapsed when you move over to the Solution Explorer view. This … Continue reading →