Visual Studio Links #116

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio.

New on Visual Studio Gallery:  Quick Open File for Visual Studio 2008

Tomasz Modelski explained how to pre-generate lazy loading proxies for NHibernate using a post-build event in VS.

Rick Strahl posted an explanation of how to add default assemblies, namespaces and control prefixes in the Web.Config file.

Jamie Cansdale announced that TestDriven.Net 2.21 Beta supports the NUnit 2.5 release candidate.

The PowerShell Team posted a link to PowerShellToys from /n software – some interesting functionality for ASP.NET in there.

The Web Developer Tools Team posted a few new tips:

• Tip #59: Did you know…How you can automatically format unformatted HTML on paste in VS?
• Tip #60: Did you know… How to profiling an asp.net site?

Brain Harry posted a link to the Microsoft Visual Studio AJAX Profiling Extensions Power Tool – a tool for profiling JavaScript code running a web browser.  Brian also wrote an article on TFS 2010 Admin, Operations & Setup Improvements.

VS2008 KB:  Workaround available for “Error 1316.A network error occurred while attempting to read from the file Path\SSCERuntime-ENU.msi” error message when you repair an instance SQL Server 2008

Carlos Quintero has written 3 new articles on VS extensibility:

• MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO Launch a process with admin rights from a Visual Studio 2008 add-in on Windows Vista
• MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Understanding Visual Studio behavior when an add-in tries to edit a read-only file
• MZ-Tools Articles Series: HOWTO: Getting information about Visual Studio windows from an add-in

Nick Randolph posted an overview of Debugging Threads in Visual Studio with Breakpoint Conditions and Actions.

Channel 9 Stuff:

• Office Tools for Devs
• Gilad Bracha- Inside Newspeak and Objects as a Service
• 10-4 Episode 17- F# Intro
• Jason Olson- Composing Programming Languages, F# and OO
• This week on C9- Windows 7 RC, Glimmer for jQuery, and ZOMG Ponies
• John Rose- Static Managed Runtimes and Dynamic Byte Codes
• Philip Wadler and Erik Meijer- On Programming Language Theory and Practice

Greg Duncan will be working the booth at TechEd 2009 for the VSTS Team along with Brian Keller.  He will also be a guest host of This Week on Channel 9 on Thursday.  Now that is cool!