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Background You are opening a solution made in Visual Studio 2010 with VS 2012.  When you run Code Analysis you get a series of CA0053 errors, saying it is unable to load the rule sets from the Visual Studio 2010 directory! In the Error window you get an error message saying “Code Analysis detected errors.” Continue Reading →

Download from VS Gallery  In my work I meet many developers, tester and project managers, all using Visual Studio.  When I ask them if they have updated it to the latest version, there are many who simply don’t know.  Should you always update ? YES, you should. The Visual Studio development teams are continuously making improvements Continue Reading →

This post is continued HERE. Go to Part 1 – List of Product Updates for information on Visual Studio and TFS 2012 updates Looking for the VS 2010 extensions ? Go to Visual Studio 2010 – List of Product Updates (Part 1) + Extensions (Part 2). Looking for links to the test adapters, go to this Continue Reading →

Memory for managed code is handled by the garbage collector, but if you use any kind of unmanaged code, like native resources of any kind, open files, streams and window handles, your application may leak memory if these are not properly handled.  To handle such resources the classes that own these in your application should Continue Reading →

UPDATED March 24th 2016:   Test Data Retention is now added to TFS 2015 Update 1,  see this post for more information. UPDATED Apr 15th 2013: Corrected to VS2012 Update 2 UPDATED Mar 23rd 2012: Added information about VS 11 UPDATED Mar 21st 2012:  Added info and link to VS/TFS 11 tool for getting the Continue Reading →

The 1.0.1 version of the Build Folder Extension is now out and can be downloaded from the Visual Studio Code Gallery  at http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/35daa606-4917-43c4-98ab-38632d9dbd45  Source code, discussions and issue tracking can be found at the codeplex site at http://tfsbuildfolders.codeplex.com/  Context menu The context menu has been extended with the following commands, shown below: Queue New Build… Continue Reading →

We have just released a free extension for Visual Studio which adds a Builds Explorer with folders to the Team Explorer.  The extension can be downloaded from Visual Studio Gallery or just search for Inmeta in Tools/Extension Manager. The documentation and issue tracking  can be found at the codeplex site for the project http://tfsbuildfolders.codeplex.com/ and Continue Reading →

Sometimes the tool is blamed for errors which are not the fault of the tool – this is one such story.  It was however, not so easy to get to the bottom of it, so I hope sharing this story can help some others. One of our test developers started to get this message inside Continue Reading →

This post is about VS 2010, go here for the VS/TFS 11 extensions. UPDATED Apr 9th 2012: VersionInfo, NuGet, Code Contracts  UPDATED Oct 7th 2012:  New Visual Studio GDR UPDATED Aug 31th 2012: New versions updated of ReSharper, NDepend, Web Essentials, Community Build Manager,  Code Contracts (March 2012), NuGet, ILSpy, DotPeek, Just Decompile, tangible T4 Continue Reading →