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I've been troubleshooting some issues with Viasfora and noticed something that I definitely was not expecting: It appears that if you implement an IClassifier extension, and also implement IDisposable, it will not be called by Visual Studio once the text buffer is released. </p> I have noticed this on Visual...

Viasfora version 1.2 has been released! Most of the work on this released went into significantly improving the performance of the extension, particularly around Rainbow Parentheses and the Keyword Classifier. One of the issues that I ran into was that when both features were enabled, they could interact in ways...

Tonight I pushed a new version of my Viasfora extension for Visual Studio. In this version, I fixed some features that were not working on Visual Studio 2013 due to the introduction of a new HTML editor, particularly highlighting closing HTML tags. What's exiting to me, however, is the new...

A couple of days ago, I unveiled Viasfora, my latest attempt at building a decently packaged extension for Visual Studio 2010, 2012, and 2013. I had already published a few VS Extensions before (Keyword Classifier, BetterXml, Line Adornments, and Xaml Classifier Fix), but it was not overly successful. The reasons...

DebugDiag is a tool for collecting and analyzing memory dumps. Version 2.0 was just released and makes it extremely easy to write your own custom analysis rules using any language that target the CLR. SPListAnalysis is a sample analysis rule I implemented to show the basic steps involved in the...

Published another minor update to my KeywordClassifier Visual Studio extension yesterday. The new version adds support for Visual Studio 2013 preview, and also adds a new feature: A custom classification tag to highlight escape sequences within strings: <img src="/images/kc_string_escape.png" alt="Screenshot of string escape sequence" /> Use the "String Escape Sequence"...

I posted an update to my KeywordClassifier Visual Studio extension today. This update fixes the manifest so that Visual Studio 2012 compatibility is better detected, and also adds JavaScript support for both VS2010 and VS2012. Here's a screenshot of how it looks: <img src="http://winterdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/keywordclassifier-js.png" alt="KeywordClassifier JS Screenshot" title="KeywordClassifier JS Support"...

Last week, the first public beta of the Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime library was released. This is a very cool library that can be used to write automated dump analysis of processes hosting the CLR. One of the first things you will need in order to use ClrMD is get a hold of...

I spent some time this week researching what would be needed to update some of my Visual Studio 2010 extensions to support Visual Studio 2012. I’ve now managed to do so, and would like to share what I found in case anyone else finds it useful. Warning: This post was...

My good friend Lars Wilhelmsen asked me a couple of days ago if I knew of a way to automate creating Queues on a clustered instance of MSMQ. Normally, a cluster of machines using Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) with MSMQ in Windows Server 2008 and up will have several MSMQ...