A while back I posted a series of articles on how to use T4 and a custom VS extension to simplify some common code like application settings, WCF clients and environmental transforms. With the release of Visual Studio 2015 I had to update my own extension and templates so I wanted to posted a follow… Continue reading T4 Templates Update for Visual Studio 2015
UPDATE: NuGet Package Manager 3.1 has been released to Visual Studio Gallery. It resolves the issue mentioned here. For those of you using the Visual Studio 2015 RC/RTM release you should be aware of a bug in the version of NuGet that ships with it. The bug manifests itself when building or debugging a project.… Continue reading Visual Studio 2015 RC NuGet Package Bug
CAVEAT: This is pre-release and subject to change. One of the cool new features coming in C# v6 is the nameof operator. This handy little operator solves a common code smell, string literals for programmatic items. Let’s take a simple example. static void Foo ( string value ) { if (value == null) throw new… Continue reading C# v6 Features–Nameof Operator
One of the changes coming with VS 2015 is how NuGet packages are managed. In VS2013 you got something like this when managing packages for a solution. This UI provides some useful information. What packages are installed and in which projects What packages have updates What packages are available In VS2015 you get a completely… Continue reading Visual Studio 2015 Preview–Package Manager
This is awesome news from Microsoft. They have finally released a new edition for VS2013. Now before you grumble about yet another edition let me clarify exactly what this means – Express is dead. What Is It? In short VS2013 CE (hereafter known as CE) is the free version of Visual Studio. Prior to now… Continue reading Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition