Vote for Visual Studio Text Editor Guidelines to Return

Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 contain a (not officially supported) feature that allows display of vertical guidelines in the (code) text editor. Visual Studio 2010 however, seems to completely miss this feature. I created a feature request on Microsoft Connect. Please help and vote for this feature to return.

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NCover supports CuttingEdge.Conditions

The NCover team has supported my open source CuttingEdge.Conditions project by donating a license of this cool tool.

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Spell checkers for Visual Studio

One good spell checker and one really bad spell checker plug-in for Visual Studio.

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Microsoft and DevExpress announce free CodeRush Xpress for C#

This was announced some time ago at the PDC2008, but I just found out after watching the PDC session on Tips And Tracks For The Visal C# IDE.

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My Own Fluent Argument Validation Library

The last couple of days I had some spare time. What does a workaholic do with spare time? Exactly: he builds his own library. :-)

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Visual studio bug: Generic extension method doesn't show up in IntelliSense

I just reported a bug on the Microsoft Connect site about a quirk in the C# IntelliSense feature regarding generic extension methods.

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ASP.NET Provider Model Template for Visual Studio (download)

This article describes my Visual Studio 2005 / Visual Studio 2008 template for rolling your own custom provider on the ASP.NET 2.0 Provider model. The model is actually not restricted to ASP.NET and this template allows you to create your custom provider for every type of .NET application, including console and forms applications.

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Nested Master Pages Until Orcas

This article describes how to inherit your .aspx pages from a custom class, in such a way that you can use nested master pages, without getting that terrible 'Design view does not support creating or editing nested master pages. To create or edit nested master pages, use Source view' from the Visual Studio Designer.

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