Ferry Meidianto

Category: Visual Studio

  • Installing Visual Studio 2012 after Visual Studio 2013

    Although it’s recommended that we install Visual Studio versions in the order in which they were released (for example, install Visual Studio 2012 before we install Visual Studio 2013) as mentioned in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246609.aspx, there is possibility that we have installed Visual Studio 2013 before we know that we need to install Visual Studio 2012. It happened…

  • VS2010 Tips #15: Disable IntelliTrace for better debugging performance (VS2010 Ultimate Only)

    I recently upgrading ASP.NET MVC 2 solution from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010 (Ultimate Edition). I found that debugging was very slow. Depending on project size, it took around 30 seconds to initialize and another 5 seconds on each page request in my experience. I tried disabling IntelliTrace (what is IntelliTrace?) and voila!…

  • Thoughts on Visual Studio LightSwitch

    Earlier this month (August 2010) Microsoft has introduced a new Visual Studio family member, it’s Visual Studio LightSwitch. Visual Studio LightSwitch is RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool that can be used to build WPF and Silverlight applications in an easy way. Don’t expect me to explain the features in this post, it will be too…

  • VS2010 Tips #14: How change the default browser used in debugging ASP.NET MVC 2 application

    Changing default browser used in debugging ASP.NET MVC 2 is a bit tricky in Visual Studio 2010. To use ScottGu’s steps, you will need to add new ASPX page first. But unfortunately if you delete the page then close the application, anytime you rerun the application then the change you did will lost (it backs…

  • VS2010 Tips #13: How to do multi-targeting in Visual Studio 2010 Express edition

    In my previous blog post I wrote that the requirement to enable multi-targeting feature in Visual Studio 2010 is .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installed in the machine. But why does it not enable the Target Framework dropdown in File -> New -> Project / Web Site dialog of Visual Studio 2010 Express edition? Is multi-targeting…