April 15, 2010
Blog ArchivesIssues between Visual Studio, Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse and Windows 2008 Server
Quite some time ago, when Vista just went RTM, Risk Strahl discovered that when he used Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse, code intellisense and markup validation in Visual Studio stopped working. Since several activities in VS are done in a background on idle (not to be confused with background threads – idle processing is performed on the main thread), it was clear that VS was not getting any idle time slots, i.e. something was keeping OS busy. We tracked the issue down some third party applications as well as to a bug in Microsoft Wireless Mouse driver that was keeping OS busy and prevented OS from going to sleep or launching screen saver. See Knowledge Base topic for details and workarounds/updates. What about Windows 7? The fix was included…(read more)
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Spell checker 2.3 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Minor update for the Spell checker add-in for VS 2008 SP1. It is now available at Visual Studio Gallery . Direct link: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/2f3d691d-8838-4d84-ad64-44a02db37e30 What's new in version 2.3: Updated native code loading mechanism to improve robustness Fixed bug when applying suggestion would also delete punctuation immediately following the word. You can find extended information on the add-in and possible customization in earlier post . For VS 2010 version look here . Thanks Mikhail Arkhipov Read More……(read more)
ASP.NET/HTML Spell Checker 2.3 is available for Visual Studio 2010
ASP.NET/HTML Spell Checker 2.3 for Visual Studio 2010 has been posted on Visual Studio Gallery (also accessible from Visual Studio Start page in 'Extending Visual Studio' section). Direct link: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/0db4814c-255e-4cc6-a2c2-a428de7f8949 What's new in version 2.3: VS 2010 version installs from gallery as Visual Studio Extension package (VSIX) In VS 2010 suggestion list is invoked via right button click (instead of double click as in earlier versions). Fixed bug: Fixing misspelled word it may also remove punctuation that immedialy follows it. For additional information please refer to readme.htm included in the download – you can find it in the extension directory, typically C:\Users\USER_NAME…(read more)
Tip#100: Did you know… How to view ASP.NET trace information?
You can enable ASP.NET tracing either at an Application level or at a page level; see Tip# 77: Did you know… How to enable Page Level Tracing for your ASP.NET pages? for more information. With the tracing enabled, you can view the trace output in a trace…(read more)
