Tag Archives: Visual Studio

Alternative to Solution Items/Folders

Solution items/folders are ubiquitous in the Visual Studio world. Open any given VS solution and chances are, you’ll see some floating around. Solution items are files which don’t logically belong inside a project. Solution folders are virtual directories which can be used to impose … Continue reading

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How to Add a User Control to a SharePoint Web Part

By default, when you create a visual web part in a SharePoint 2010 project, Visual Studio adds a user control for you and performs the necessary plumbing to ensure it gets deployed to the Control Templates directory in the 14 … Continue reading

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My Take on TFS

So, for the past couple of months at work, I’ve been living in Microsoft land doing SharePoint /ASP .NET web development. Now I’m not some blind Linux evangelist bemoaning the fact that I’m tethered to a large Microsoft stack during … Continue reading

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How to Add QT Support to an Existing Visual Studio Project

QT is a cool GUI framework and the Visual Studio add-in is pretty neat… it allows you to code and deploy C++/QT apps without having to deal with QT’s include directories, linker dependencies, environment variables and all that jazz. You … Continue reading

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