Don’t do it! Php is a horrible horrible language. I hate it so much, no help from compilers, no intellisense and no good IDE. Right? Wrong! There is something called VS.Php for Visual Studio that gives you most of the things you might want. It’s putting enough makeup on the pig for me to kiss it. ... [More]

A long time ago I participated in one of these old forum discussions about where to put interfaces. Some people argued that their interfaces went in a subfolder called interfaces. This whole discussion was part of a longer inversion of control discussion. Me myself and Irene thinks that the interfac... [More]

I just had a strange problem with Visual Studio I could not debug my Unit Tests. It just kept running in release mode no matter what I tried and the Build Configuration Manager was completely gone from the context menu of the solution and no build configuration in the project settings either. Funny... [More]

  I had some real issues with the loading times. It’s not like my computer can’t handle it but I hate waiting. There for I was browsing around for some tips and stumbled upon the following macro: Private Sub SolutionEvents_BeforeClosing() Handles SolutionEvents.BeforeClosing DT... [More]

I completely love Visual Studio 2010. So many incredible enhancements. I totally love to be able to model first in Entity Framework. I can sit there with my class diagram and consider what should go where and then just generate a database script to execute! Amazing, finally and WOW! The UI has also ... [More]

It seems like Visual Studio drops a setting needed by OLE DB drivers. The solution to my problems was a simple one but finding it was not!! It took me freaking 3 months to find a way to be able to use Visual Studio (any version) with Access Databases again. 4 months ago I formatted my harddrives an... [More]