Use this macro to generate backups from Microsoft Visual Studio solution's context menu
Microsoft Visual Studio Backup Macro
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TIP: A Quick Way to Write Public Properties in C#
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Learn about a very quick and easy way to create public properties for member variables inside a class using regular expressions.
Write Macro Code Generators with VS 2005
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You can employ macros to write code for you. Learn how to use the macro engine in VS 2005 to write a code generator that implements the refactoring Encapsulate Field for VB.NET.
Prime Programming Proficiency, Part 2: VS.NET Macros
Published 07/30/2004
Paul Kimmel introduces the VS.NET Macros IDE and gets you started on implementing the LineCounter tool. By using VS.NET's extensibility object model in conjunction with macros, you can automate a wide variety of tasks to extend and customize VS.NET.
YAMG'�Yet Another Macro Generator
Published 01/05/2004
Learn how to use macros to automate certain kinds of refactoring tasks that involve systematic code replacement.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
Published 04/18/2011
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
Published 06/23/2011
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
Input and Output with VB.NET 2010
Published 06/08/2011
The .NET runtime has everything you need to format your output and handle special characters. Both Visual Basic 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 help you with Intellisense if you can't remember the syntax. This article explores simple console input and output and shows you how to get it done.
WCF, ASP.NET MVC, and the new ASP.NET Web API
Published 04/06/2012
If WCF and ASP.NET MVC had offspring it would be named ASP.NET Web API. Like WCF, Web API is built for Web Service development. Only instead of building on WCF data structures; Web API embraces an MVC style experience. The result makes Web Service development more accessible to ASP.NET developers and gets WCF developers closer to HTTP.
