• Multiple projects – multiple repositories

    Do you have one project you want to share between multiple solutions? Something like a big set of helpers or a framework you need here and there? There are multiple ways ones have achieved this goal. Let me describe how I’ve done this. We work with Visual Studio as our main development environment and Subversion as our source control system. What we needed was a systematic approach where we share our framework across all of our projects. We are actively developing our framework so simple dll reference is not an option. Our rules according to framework development make it fairly save to share the same code across multiple projects and…

  • Aiding your work with Visual Studio Code Snippets

    I’ve bin writing //TODO comments in my code every time wondering what pattern have we agreed upon in our team. Was it a // TODO Recipient Priority Sender, Message or // TODO Priority Sender Recipient, Message or something else. Today I thought: who am I to remember all those dentils? Do I have something to help me with this burning problem? Well I have. The name is Visual Studio Code Snippet. It in a XML file that describes a quickly insertable text. With such XML description I will by able to write only a word “todo” in my VS and everything else will happen automagically. There will by a nicely…