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Category Archives: Extensions

A story on working with NUnit backward compatibility, and dependencies

Posted on January 26, 2019 by terje — Leave a reply

NUnit as a project has a tradition of keeping backwards compatibility. It ensures that even if you stay on a earlier version of Visual Studio, .net FrameWork, or whatever it Continue Reading →

Posted in Dependencies, Extensions, NuGet, NUnit | Leave a reply

Recommended extensions for Visual Studio 2017

Posted on March 22, 2018 by terje — 1 Comment ↓

It is time to reestablish my list of recommended VSIX extensions to Visual Studio, for 2017 and higher.   The list of tools you install now with VSIX is less than Continue Reading →

Posted in Extensions, Visual Studio | Tagged Markdown, NDepends, NUnit, Resharper, Runsettings | 1 Comment ↓

Visual Studio & TFS 2013 – List of extensions and tools (Part 2)

Posted on September 19, 2014 by terje — Leave a reply

Go to Part 1 – List of Product Updates for information on Visual Studio and TFS 2013 updates Looking for the VS 2012 product updates and extensions ?  Go to Continue Reading →

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Fixing up Visual Studio’s gitignore , using IFix

Posted on June 13, 2014 by terje — Leave a reply

Download tool Updated 3.July 2014:  Corrected pattern for NuGet, details in this blogpost. (IFix is in progress to be updated too, version 1.1 will have these fixes) Is there anything Continue Reading →

Posted in Extensions, Git, IFix, NuGet | Leave a reply

Fix for the ‘Could not find test executor’ issue with NUnit, XUnit and Chutzpah when using ReSharper in Visual Studio

Posted on February 9, 2014 by terje — 1 Comment ↓

This issue is resolved in the latest ReSharper release, version 8.2.0.2160, download here.  The issue appears when using the Test Explorer to run tests in any of the frameworks mentioned Continue Reading →

Posted in Extensions, NUnit, Resharper, Unit Testing | 1 Comment ↓

Visual Studio & TFS 2013 – List of extensions and tools (Part 2)

Posted on December 14, 2013 by terje — 1 Comment ↓

Go to Part 1 – List of Product Updates for information on Visual Studio and TFS 2013 updates Looking for the VS 2012 product updates and extensions ?  Go to Visual Studio 2012 Continue Reading →

Posted in Azure DevOps, Extensions, Visual Studio | 1 Comment ↓

How to fix an annoying ReSharper – NuGet error

Posted on October 30, 2013 by terje — Leave a reply

Using NuGet in Visual Studio together with ReSharper may sometimes lead you into an annoying error where ReSharper indicates your code has an error, but the solution builds just fine. Continue Reading →

Posted in Extensions, Resharper, Visual Studio | Leave a reply

Unit testing resources and articles for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013

Posted on September 20, 2013 by terje — Leave a reply

The last year I have written three blog posts for the Microsoft MSDN ALM blog on unit testing. The posts focused on the new test explorer with its abilities to Continue Reading →

Posted in Azure DevOps, Extensions, Unit Testing, Visual Studio, VSTS | Leave a reply

Tools for Metrics analysis – Visual Studio and NDepend / CppDepend – part 1

Posted on October 14, 2010 by terje — Leave a reply

Introduction Recently I have been involved in some projects to improve the software quality of their code base.  These code bases have been rather large, and in some cases consisting Continue Reading →

Posted in Code Analysis, Extensions, Visual Studio | Leave a reply

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