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This is probably an oldie, but only today have I lost patience with the Error List window. I'm fed up with the hundreds of HTML validation errors it shows, hiding the real build errors. Half the time my HTML source view shows that <asp tags are unrecognised anyway. But the error list keeps bobbing up and down today while I'm trying to ...

Call me a control freak, but I really dislike the magical aspects of VS 2005 & ASP.NET 2.0. You know, the times where HAL VS2005 says "We'll fix that up for you, don't worry how". Or "You don't have to write code, just give us a hint and we'll do all the work!". Pfffffffffffffffft The ...

Hey, IE Team, when I start debugging you open a new browser window but IE7 has got me into the habit now of using tabs all the time so when I want to open other pages, docs etc I quickly have 5-6 tabs open while debugging. So why do you close the whole browser when you stop debugging? Close your tab, leave all mine. Please! Hey, those of you ASP ...

I don't know James Cansdale personally, but I do find this MVP situation very interesting. No, that's bollocks actually, it's more than "interesting". Roy says it best: "Legal issues aside, Jamie "fixed" a mistake Microsoft has made - not putting unit tests inside all versions of VS.NET - and for that he ...

Three weeks since my last post, and I've had something interesting to talk about almost every day. The last few days have been a blur of typing as I implement the coolest thing since sliced bread. But I can't tell you about it, so you'll have to put up with my silence until it goes to Beta at least. I know that sucks, but you've ...

Have I finally found something that chaps my butt enough to get off my lazy ass and start blogging again? Yes, I jolly well think I have.  And it's nice to be back, thanks. (No,my blog is still not on Community Server, even though everyone else in the world seems to be. Even manic depressives have found time to skin their own CS sites ...

I keep hearing on mailing lists, forums and now blogs about the new Consolas font for Visual Studio. Consolas Conschmolas. Yuck. It may be a prettier or technically superior monospaced font, but it's still a monospaced font, which suck.   Why do programmers think they have to use monospaced font nowadays? Your eyesight is more ...

While playing with CS 2.0 and WF in VS 2005 I found that most people were debugging by attaching to the aspnet_wp process. Although this works well, it's more convenient to debug with F5, so I started poking around. Here are the steps I followed, but bear in mind that these haven't been approved by ScottW - so making these changes may have ...

I'm proud to say that while I was at the ASP Insiders Summit in Redmond I found a couple of issues in ASP.NET 2.0! How cool is that, to actually be useful to the team that invites you. Ok, finding bugs isn't the help they probably want at this stage, but *I* think it's better than sitting on your ass drinking their free Dew. So, issue #1 was ...

Scott Guthrie published a great article yesterday explaining how Visual Studio 2005's new web projects work. My favorite part? This feature of the Team System integration:  Ability to measure and precisely quantify the percentage of code exercised by tests (what we often call code coverage). A web developer can build a web project, ...