Category Archives: Visual Studio

Visual Studio: Team Foundation Server: Workspace Already Exists Error

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Greg

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Embed Resources into your .Net Projects

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Greg

Worrying about file paths, locations, availability, and security of your project’s resource can be a real pain.  Fortunately, you can easily embed resources into your project’s DLL and reference them with ease from your code.  Here’s an example of how … Continue reading →

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Fix FireFox SLOWdown on Vista while Debugging localhost

Posted on October 28, 2007 by Greg

If you use FireFox to debug on Windows Vista, you most likely have noticed how ridiculously slow it is rendering localhost requests versus Internet Explorer.  No, this isn’t a conspiracy, just an issue with IPv6, FireFox, and Windows Vista. To … Continue reading →

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Format Document – The Quick HTML and Code Organizer

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Greg

I have encountered a lot of bad HTML formating in my days, and one quick way to organize the HTML files via Visual Studio 2005 is to use the Format Document option from the Edit menu. One thing about the … Continue reading →

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Intellisense for MSBuild files

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Greg

To “enable” Intellisense for MSBuild projects ending with the extension “msbuild”: 1)      1) Add this registry key (no line break in the key): [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Editors\ {412B8852-4F21-413B-9B47-0C9751D3EBFB}\Extensions]“msbuild”=dword:00000029 2)      Create a file called “test.msbuild” and then try to open it.  Choose “Select program … Continue reading →

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