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Visual Studio Command Prompt in Console

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

I’m a big fan of Console – it’s a nifty little app that lets you host multiple disparate command prompts in a single tabbed interface. I have a regular command prompt, a Git bash, a Powershell prompt and a Python … Continue reading →

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Sample script for SolutionScripts

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Matt Hinze

Question came up.. what sort of scripts do you use with SolutionScripts? Here’s one that does the ASP.NET compile thing.  Stick it in your SolutionScripts directory and you can run aspcomp from the Nuget console.

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SolutionScripts – little scripts for the Nuget console

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Matt Hinze

Sharing a Nuget package our team has been using for awhile: SolutionScripts.  It’s ridiculously simple, more of an idea than anything else. It runs the PowerShell scripts we put in a conventional folder.  We can version those scripts with our … Continue reading →

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Symptoms of a centralized VCS

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

Reading the TFS 2010 Branching Guide on CodePlex (no, I’m not a glutton for punishment, just want to know what else is going on in the world), I found an interesting note on scratch or temporary branches that pretty much … Continue reading →

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Scheduled tasks with Quartz.NET

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

I’ve used a few different task schedulers on my current project, where I have to kick off NServiceBus sagas at very specific times of day (every night at 2AM etc.) We started out using the built-in Windows Task Scheduler, which … Continue reading →

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Protip: Viewing large XML files

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

There are lots of editors that can view large XML files, such as Visual Studio, Notepad++, UltraEdit and so on.  But all of these have one flaw – they try and do too much in viewing XML.  Things like coloring, … Continue reading →

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Using Solution Factory + NuPack to create Opinionated Visual Studio Solutions.

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Eric Hexter

Using Solution Factory inside of NuPack opens up a great new world of creating Solution Level templates. Previously, I wrote a lot of code in Solution Factory that just kept running into edge cases working against the Visual Studio automation … Continue reading →

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Automating scheduled tasks

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

Back in the day, I used to develop scheduled tasks by writing my own task scheduler and batch execution program.  I don’t think at the time I knew about the Task Scheduler service built in to Windows.  It support just … Continue reading →

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Integrating the Git bash into Console

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

One of the essential development tools (found on Hanselman’s tools list) is a better command shell.  The regular “cmd.exe” that comes with every version of Windows is quite lame.  Console offers a host of improvements over the build-in command prompt, … Continue reading →

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DevExpress is a Platinum Sponsor of Austin Code Camp 2010

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Eric Hexter

Developer Express Inc. develops Feature-Complete Components for ASP.Net and Winforms, Reporting Tools, IDE Add-ins, and Business Application Frameworks for Visual Studio. Information at www.devexpress.com On behalf of the Austin .Net Users Group (ADNUG) and every attendee of Code Camp 2010, … Continue reading →

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