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August 11, 2011

Visual Studio 2010 SP 1 Took 4 Hours to Install Over Slow Connection

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I am setting up a new virtual machine with Windows 7 and installed all updates.  I installed Visual Studio 2010 in about an hour, and followed up by adding on ASP.NET MVC 3 install.  My next task was to install SP1, which has taken 4 hours to install.  Most of the slowness was the download […]

 

January 15, 2011

Visual Studio Find References and "var"

Posted by Brian Mains under Visual Studio
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I really love the “var” keyword because it simplifies the code.  Var can be switched from one type to another without any potential code changes (as long as the signatures match), and all of this is referenced at compile time.  But i noticed a side-effect with var within Visual Studio.  Right-clicking find all references of […]

 

May 1, 2010

Setting Up a Team Foundation Server 2010 Project

Posted by Brian Mains under Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio, Web
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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I recently installed TFS 2010 and began to setup my projects, so I decided to create this blog post.  I’m not going to cover the installation aspect of TFS; rather, I’m going to assume that you successfully installed the base software; this blog doesn’t discuss the use […]