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Recently, I was asked an interesting question. How to get search results of Find In Files operation in VS? You can get these results quite easily from your macro or add-in. The trick is to read the contents of Find Results 1 or Find Results 2 window, whichever was used to show the results. So, [...]

If you want to get rid of that annoying macro tooltip in system tray, just follow this Visual Studio Macro Balloon article.

You surely know what I'm talking about. We often need to run and test simple code chunks or only one statement while we are coding. It may be very annoying to run main project every time we want to test our new five lines long function. Fortunately, there are better ways to do it.
Here are [...]

I must say that I ignored Trace object and TRACE compilation constant for long time. I've been only using Debug object and DEBUG constant for debugging purposes.
Recently, one user of our VBdocman .NET encountered strange problem which I couldn't reproduce. We all know it. So I created special tracing build for him which logged all [...]

We all know that we should use Try ... Catch instead of On Error... But our VBdocman .NET contains some code ported from VB6. This code naturally uses On Error... and it was OK as long as the code worked correctly.
Recently, we decided to clean the old code and use String.equals method for comparing two [...]