Thursday, December 01, 2005

When working with UserControls in VS, you can easily get yourself is a "crash loop."  The problem is that while debugging, your UserControl takes down VS.  When you re-open the solution, your buggy code runs again and again crashes the process.  It's difficult to fix the problem when VS keeps crashing, isn't it?

The fix is simple: go out to the file system and delete the .suo file.  Next time the solution is brought up, no solution documents will be displayed by default.  You can now fix the problem, but be careful not to use the designer until the underlying problem is fixed.  Using the designer before the code is fixed could expose you do another crash loop.

Thursday, December 01, 2005 7:39:19 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Wednesday, November 30, 2005

I'm a little late in finding this, but Infragistics is offering several VS2005 Win and WebForm controls for free:
http://www.infragistics.com/resource/Marketing/Promo/VSIP/VS2005offer/

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 5:28:11 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  | 

If you're into freeware like I am, you'll love this list:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 5:11:07 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Monday, November 28, 2005
This is a VS macro that will take a private member declaration and turn it into a public property. It takes into account leading underscores as well as "new" keywords.
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:35:15 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |