The Visual Studio Solution Explorer can become difficult to navigate when a solution becomes quite large.  I have used a tool for some time now called SonicFileFinder.  It has become one of my favorite utilities. SonicFileFinder is a free add-in for Visual Studio that allows a fast and ... [More]

  I am a big fan of Resharper.  It helps me be more productive and that is better for me and my company.  One thing Resharper does is line highlighting in your IDE.  So whatever line you are on will stand out.  But I decided to try a dark theme with Visual Studio recently a... [More]

Do you use database projects in Visual Studio? If not, then now is a good time to start. It is the best way I have found to source control my databases without actually sticking the database file itself in the repository. It is very simple to add to your solution and creates a default directory structure for your create scripts, change scripts and queries. Best of all the project will be recognized by source control and added to the source code repository. This means you can keep versioned scripts for maintainability. It also gives you the option to do the dreaded rollback! [More]