Tips 'n Tricks Automatically add referral tag to URLs with Clipboard Fusion Recently Microsoft introduced the Docs & Learn program. You, the MVP and content creator, get a unique identifier to add to any url linking to a number of Microsoft websites, and they automatically track the engagement you generate.
Tools My tools of trade Another two-and-a-half years have flown by and that means I've just received my new laptop. My Dell Precision 5520 has been traded in for a Lenovo X1 Extreme Gen 2 and I've just finished putting most op my must have tools on it.
Tools Time for a new laptop It's time for a new laptop, that means time to figure out what to re-install and what to let go of. I'm always curious to what others run on their machines to boost productivity, and really enjoyed the blog posts from, for example Scott Hanselman and Roy Osherove (back in
Tools Red-Gate silently releases 7.6.0.808 version of Reflector It looks like Red-gate pushed out their new version a little in advance of the official announcement. When you download the latest version from their site you will get 7.6.0.808, the new version that includes The new installer experience. Better support for SharePoint. It's very limited so
Team Foundation Server Generating a changelog from TFS Update: I filed a request on the Visual Studio User Voice for an export to text and excel for this feature. Please vote for it! We have a requirement to deliver a list of add, removed and changed files as part of every release. TFS of course contains all this
Multi monitor Take control over your applications on multiple monitors Our new project space came equipped with a nice big widescreen monitor on every desk. I had used multiple monitors a few years back while I was still running Windows XP and back then I tried a lot of tools which made multiple desktop management easier. Back then I ended
Team Foundation Server Helpful Visual Studio Add-ins Over the past years I've found myself to rely more and more on a number of very handy, some well known, Visual Studio add-ins. I've split this list into two parts, the free and the paid tools: Team Foundation Power Tools [link] [free] These tools are now installed on our
