I love LINQPad nearly as much as my wife. For quickly mocking up .NET code, debugging OData services or for general LINQ goodness it’s like a Swiss Army Knife. In C# Statements mode all objects and collections are extended with the Dump extension method. This allows viewing of an object or object hierarchy in a way that you’ll never beat with Debug.Writelines.
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You’re doing it wrong!!! Well some of it at least…
My current role has me involved in several projects utilising the Microsoft Dyanamics AX framework. As part of my work I wanted to use Team Foundation Server to automate a build procedure that wasn’t specifically .NET and would require a custom build template to pull it off. I originally wrote our build templates for other projects using Team Foundation Server 2005. We had never bothered to upgrade them to the Windows Workflow style build templates but had rather utilised upgrade templates to get them to work. I had done a small amount of work with the new style of build templates but I needed to know more so I started doing some serious research on what had changed.
Adding a toolbar button to restore window layouts in VS2010
I use multiple monitors at my place of work to spread my development environment over the largest area possible. I have the code window on my left monitor and all of the other tool windows like Solution Explorer on my right monitor. This gives me the largest amount of work space possible for me to write code with as well as having quick access to the solution explorer and property windows.
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