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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 […]

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 […]

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 [...]