Hi everyone,

Oana just showed me a list of shortcuts in Visual Studio 2010 which I have attached to this blogpost. Just check them out, I am convinced you will find some interesting combinations in there.

Take care, Arthur

VS2010CSharp.pdf (1.40 mb)

Visual Studio 2010 offers a variety of new features, one of them I am particularly fond of is the extended IntelliSense. IntelliSense is pretty much as good as it gets in Visual Studio 2008 but Visual Studio 2010 pushes things a bit further.

There are two really neat new features in IntelliSense, the first one is the Pascal capital letter recognition which means that if you would like to find, let's say, the IsPostBack page property you can type IPB and you get a list of members with those three capital letters in their name. The second feature is the Camel case recognition which means that if you search for a key word let's say, Post, you will get all the members that have the word Post in their name. 

Take a look at the two screenshots below:

Pascal capital letter recognition

Camel case

The last two blog posts were about the SVN plugin for Visual Studio from the CodePlex page: http://tsvnaddin.codeplex.com/.

I did not try to get it running at work, but I took it for a spin for some at home. The plugin did it's job, but I stumbled upon some problems which made me use the good old Tortoise SVN client.

First of all if want to update or commit the files you've changed in the project/solution you only get the csproj/sln file to update -> this was a major issue for me.

A second issue is that the splash screen cannot be removed on x64 systems. I had no problems running it on my x86 laptop, but on my Windows 7 x64 laptop I couldn't get rid of that screen.

The last problem appeared when trying to remove the plugin... it just wouldn't let me remove it at all. I posted a solution on the project page on CodePlex: http://tsvnaddin.codeplex.com/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=79343.

To conclude, I have to say that the project is in it's beta state so the problems I encountered will probably be solved in the future and the good work of integrating SVN into Visual Studio should continue :)

With this post I end my thread on this Visual Studio SVN plugin. I will come back with further information when a new (maybe a stable) version of the plugin will be available.

Have a good night, Arthur 

The SVN plugin didn't really integrate into my Visual Studio 2008 Pro at work so I didn't get the chance to use it at all.

I will be taking it for a ride for some personal stuff later next month, so I'll be back with a short review on it later.

Till then, take care,

Arthur

I've just found a great plug-in for Visual Studio for managing repositories. I've been using Tortoise SVN (which did a great job btw) but I was always looking for a nice integration with Visual Studio and now I found it at: http://tsvnaddin.codeplex.com/.

I will try it out for a couple of days and will come back with my impressions.

Till then, take care,

Arthur