SCC Removal Tool for TFS / Visual Studio

Preface Publishing sample code to the blog requires some manual tasks to remove all the source control configurations and files as well as the user specific files of Visual Studio. After publishing a few code samples, having to do the same changes manually again and again, I thought it was …

Make Custom Class Item Templates for Windows Store Apps Visible in VS 2012

Make the Item Visible One very helpful feature of Visual Studio is the ability to create custom item or project templates. I’m using this feature for years to get a pre-formatted C# class, containing several regions. In VS 2012, one can set the directory where these custom item templates are …

Visual Studio UI Toolbox disappeared

I can’t recall if it was right after the initial installation, or if I hit any whatever key-combination to hide it, or closed it by mistake: The UI toolbox in my Visual Studio 2012 was not visible. First, I did not care because I didn’t needed it. But the point …

Where Do SSDT SQL Scripts Connect To?

In some software projects I used empty Visual Studio solutions to create some kind of database projects. I added SQL script files to the solutions to create all database objects, like tables, functions, stored procedures, views, constraints, and so forth. A batch file was used to run all these scripts …

Tired Of Office / Visual Studio Yelling!

Have you already installed Office 2013 and / or Visual Studio 2012? And are you one of the “old-fashioned” internet guys who understand UPPERCASE as yelling? Then you might feel uncomfortable when you are looking at the headings of Office’s and Visual Studio’s ribbon bar. Thankfully, others were already tired …

Limit Code Analysis Warnings

Visual Studio Code Analysis hat ein Limit von 200 für die Anzahl der Code-Analysis-Warnungen. Dies ist gut, um trotz der vielen Warnungen ein Projekt kompilieren zu können, kann aber auch ein Problem verursachen, wenn Tools eingebunden werden, welche selbst massive Anzahlen von Warnungen generieren und auf die Warnung von VS, …