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VS .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 Released

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

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 […]

How To Disable “A first chance exception of type…” Messages in VS 2005

Monday, May 15th, 2006

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 […]

Getting “Find in Files” Search Results programmatically

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

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, [...]

Removing Macro Balloon When Running a Macro from VS 2005

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

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

Executing Code Snippets From IDE at Design Time

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

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 [...]