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: A new update (v2.1) that resolves a few issues: Character set conflicts when using non-ASCII characters Updated documentation on how to integrate version.rci without having VS delete it the next time you open the resource designer Fix for parameters that are built from the product version I recently had the need to update my… Continue reading BuildVer Update
Here is another addin I wrote for VS2008 and then updated for VS2010. In C++ you can define your own custom keywords and VS will color them differently if you say so (Tools\Options -> Fonts and Colors). There are a couple of problems with the VS solution. You have to edit the UserType.dat file. You… Continue reading UpdateUserType (Visual Studio Addin)
CodeHTMLer is a utility written by Weshaggard and available here. The utility allows you to convert code to HTML for insertion into a website or blog. It happens to be the tool I use for code on this site. I know, I know. There are many tools already available for this but I prefer CodeHTMLer for… Continue reading CodeHTMLer (Visual Studio Addin)