This is a great extension for VS 2010 released last month: Productivity Power Tools. If you’ve used Resharper, this brings several of its great features right into VS 2010. - Quick Find - Remove and Sort Imports (they stole this one w ...[Read more]

Many people find the photos in the window border to be a little distracting. It is easy to turn them off by adding a registry key.  Follow these simple steps: 1) Save the text below between the lines into a text file and rename the file “dontShowCo ...[Read more]

Its finally here!    Follow the announcement of  Lightswitch. The public beta is going to be available on late August,   I suggest you try it out. LightSwitch is the simplest way to build business applications for the cloud and the desktop. ...[Read more]

  I am working on a Windows Phone 7 application, so that I can learn about development on the Windows Phone 7, so far it is a really great experience. I love using Linq, Xml serialization, extension methods, Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight, XAML, ...[Read more]

  Here is my SharePoint tip of the day. This is a helpful technique for debugging/testing SharePoint methods without having to fire up IIS. In my SharePoint code, I write my methods as public static methods that take an SPList or SPWeb object as a ...[Read more]

  I’ll start out with a simple, but great one: In text messaging, the emoticons in are just plain old text :D. I'm glad we are back to the good old stick figures. It lets us use our imaginations.  I've been wanting this years. Camera button. Taki ...[Read more]

One simple tip that perhaps not all .NET/Visual Studio developers know about is “Attach Debugger” instead of using F5 debugging. Simply press “CTRL+ALT+P” which brings up the attach to process dialog. Then press “w” which will scroll down to “w3wp.e ...[Read more]

  OneNote 2010 is a great product. I have been using OneNote daily for a couple years now. It has become my default repository for important information. - Tasks lists - Design before I build software solutions for work - Meeting notes ...[Read more]

I forget at times that Software Engineering is a young discipline. At times I am frustrated that it is not easier to measure good software and good software developers. The following gives some insightful perspective: -------------------- Measur ...[Read more]

  It was cool to discover that Channel 9 linked to my blog post on how RAM disks do not speed up Visual Studio:   Joe Nalewabau and Dan Fernandez talk about my blog. Starting at minute 19:50, Dan says: Dan: "Joseph Fluckiger", I ho ...[Read more]