Visual Studio 2010 Find the ID and GUID of any menu item in Visual Studio When writing an extension to Visual Studio (or in my case to Team Explorer), you need to know the ID and GUID for context menus, tree's, etc. There is a setting in Visual Studio, which you can activate to get access to a debug window which contains exactly
Team Foundation Server Storing your TFS passwords for TFS servers in another domain Working for a lot of different customers from my development laptop I've always wanted that little "Store my password" checkbox on the TFS login box, but somehow it's never there when you need it the most. Turns out you can use the Windows Credentials
Maintainability Maintainable Regular Expressions I've seen a lot of regular expressions in my career. Some genius, others monstrous, some very subtle and some really blunt. The person who wrote the expression usually did his best to make the expression work and finally succeeded in making his expression pass all the test cases
Static Analysis MSOCAF rules As you might have read previously, I've been trying to incorporate MSOCAF directly in both Visual Studio 2010 and Team Build. The simplest solution would be to code up an msbuild task and put those in a target and reference that target in all project files. I know
Static Analysis Run MSOCAF in Visual Studio and on the build server UPDATE (1st of November 2011): I've since uploaded the re-targetted MSOCAF rules to CodePlex [http://fxcopcontrib.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/3099]and I've applied a few fixes to prevent CodeAnalysis from crashing under certain conditions [https://jessehouwing.net/visual-studio-code-analaysis-msocaf-rules]
