Tag Archives: Tools

Modern tools glossary

Maybe I am getting old, maybe I am too busy with other stuff but the number of frameworks, tools and utilities has seemed to grow exponentially over the last years. As a Microsoft developer from “the early” I usually only had to worry about a new version of Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server or a […]

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Use Visual Studio as your Diff and Merging Tool for local files

Probably you are familiar with the Diff tool that Visual Studio provides when doing Source Control. When comparing two files from Source Control Explorer or the Solution Explorer you get this nice tool that shows a nice visual compare of two files. You can choose 2 local files, a source control file and a local […]

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My favorite TFS tools and links

I use TFS for a number of years now and I have a few tools and links that I always take with me. Let me share them with you Team Foundation SideKicks by Attrice http://www.attrice.info/cm/tfs/ This tools has some great features for doing administration tasks in TFS. Looking at checked out files, workspaces or doing […]

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