Helixoft Blog

Today, a user of our VSdocman has asked me for interesting functionality in Visual Studio. He wants to collapse all XML comments in the file with one click. There is no such command in VS so I wrote a macro that does the job. The macro only works in VS 2005 and higher and only [...]

The SP1 for Visual Studio 2005 is out. Enjoy!

Carlos Quintero of MZ-Tools has started his blog subtitled as Visual Studio Extensibility: macros, add-ins, SDK packages. You may already know Carlos from several newsgroups related to VS extensibility
microsoft.public.vstudio.extensibility
microsoft.public.vsnet.ide
MSDN: Visual Studio Extensibility.
Or from vsnetaddin group which discusses how to write Visual Studio.NET add-ins, wizards, and macros using the IDE automation model and VSIP interfaces.
Or you [...]

It's finally here. Long awaited SP1 for Visual Studio .NET 2003 has been released. You can get it here.
The package has 156 MB, the download was fast and installation smooth. You need to insert original VS .NEt 2003 installation CDs during setup which took about 15 minutes on my machine.
Microsoft has fixed many bugs and [...]

Well, all those
A first chance exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in MyAssembly.dll
messages in my Immediate window during the debugging annoyed me for a long time. Today, I said: enough! There must be a way how to tell VS not to show them.
We know that first chance exceptions don't necessarily need to be dangerous. See What [...]