Visual Studio Toolbars & Context-Menu cleanup / adjust

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  Visual Studio has a lot of functions and shows in the standard adjustment a lot of overloaded Toolbars and Context-Menus. The result is that Visual Studio seems to be much overcharged – at least for me. So here comes the ultimate Quick tip: we are going to blend out everything that is not necessary. …

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HowTo: start visual studio always as administrator

Those of you who use the right IIS as development server should know the problem with vista and windows 7: As long as the user account control /UAC still works you need to go the hard way via “click right” and “achieve as admin”. With a little trick it´s possible to avoid all the clicks …

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HowTo: Rename SQL Tables in Visual Studio

The integration of SQL Servers in Visual Studio is really great. I use VS to create my SQL tables and simple administration stuff – it´s not often that I start SQL Management Studio. But one thing is really annoying: You can´t rename SQL Tables in VS! But there is a little trick to do that.

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HowTo: Taskmanagement with Visual Studio (ToDos, Hacks & co.)

Many programmers know that there is very handy tool inside of Visual Studio to manage ToDos, "Hacks" and so on. I discovered this cool, secret (Visual Studio has a lot of such unknown gimmicks) feature some weeks ago: Taskmanagement You can manage your tasks in several applications: Outlook, "Work Items" in combination with TFS or …

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