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New blog about VS extensibility

November 23rd, 2006

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 […]

VS .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 Released

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 […]

VBdocman .NET is becoming VSdocman

August 8th, 2006

We have some great news here at Helixoft. We have reworked our VBdocman .NET and named it VSdocman 3.0. Why the name change? It’s because VSdocman supports not only VB .NET but also C# now. VSdocman is Visual Studio .NET 2002/2003/2005 add-in for the quick commenting and automatic generation of class documentation from your VB […]

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

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

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, [...]