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Re: Stupid Visual Studio Trick, Part 1

Rob Prouse — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:32:06 -0000

Cool trick. I first tried it in C++/CLR and nothing happened. Then I remembered that C++ is a second class citizen these days and nothing works. I switched over to C# and voila!

Thanks for the tip.

Re: Someone please defend Visual SourceSafe

Rob Prouse — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:41:47 -0000

I am using TFS at work with a small team and a very large project. For the most part it works very well, but every so often we hit one of those boundary conditions (usually around branching/merging or backing out changes) and it can get very difficult to get it to do what you want. It is a good product, but I would recommend waiting for the next version before migrating.

We were using VSS for this project before and it was nothing but painful. Our project is so large that we had regular corruption of the repository, we couldn't branch, if different developers had different versions of VSS installed it caused problems with encodings. It was like night and day when we switched to TFS despite the problems.

I use SVN at home with TortoiseSVN and the VisualSVN plugin for Visual Studio. It just works and I never have any problems with it.

Re: Free Visual Studio Add-in: SonicFileFinder

Rob Prouse — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:46:08 -0000

Visual Studio already does this without an addin, but it is a big secret ;)

In the toolbar, start type >of in the find window, then start typing the filename you are looking for. An autocomplete list of all files in your project will come up that you can select from. Select, hit enter and up pops the file in the editor!