July 20, 2002

Nothing beats ILDASM when it’s time to understand what your VB.NET or C# compiler actually emits. In this case you should prepare a desktop shortcut to ILDASM so that you

When you’re working with the Visual Studio .NET code editor, typing a Try keyword plus the Enter key automatically creates the End Try statement. The following simple macro does something

Thanks to Visual Studio.NET macros, it is quite simple to automate the task of transforming a Public field into a Property with the same name that accesses a private field

It often happens that you need to swap the operands of an assignment. For example, say that you have this set of assignments: p1.FirstName = m_FirstNamep1.LastName = m_LastName and later

As you might have noticed, the Add Reference dialog in Visual Studio displays all the assemblies in the GAC, which brings up the following question: is there a way to