Casual Ideas for Software Development

JSON Viewer extension has now a few new features: ability to print formatted data ability to format input data keeping JSON markup ability to compare 2 JSON data Source code and binaries to download are here: https://github.com/marss19/json-viewer-visual-studio-extension After installation the viewer appears in the main menu: Tools -> JSON Viewer. Applicable to VS 2012 and 2013. UPDATE The source code has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/marss19/json-viewer-visual-studio-extension The latest release is available for download in Visual Studio Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MykolaTarasyuk.JSONViewer

Made a simple extension to Visual Studio to view JSON data in a more user-friendly format. Source code and binaries to download are here: https://github.com/marss19/json-viewer-visual-studio-extension . After installation the viewer is available in the main menu: Tools -> JSON Viewer. Applicable to VS 2012 and 2013. Please note that custom VS extensions cannot be installed into Express editions of Visual Studio due to a Microsoft policy. UPDATE The source code has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/marss19/json-viewer-visual-studio-extension The latest release is available for download in Visual Studio Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MykolaTarasyuk.JSONViewer

A few nuances about the primitive types in .Net which are not so obvious: If you add two short s you will get int . The same with byte s. Arithmetic operators for these types are not implemented in .Net therefore the values are implicitly converted to int before calculation. short x = 2, y = 2; var z = x + y; Console.WriteLine(z.GetType()); //output: System.Int32 Chuck Norris is not the only person who can divide by zero. Every .Net developer can do this. Just use floating point numbers. var z = 1.0 / 0; Console.WriteLine(z); //output: Infinity

It usually took me hours to add all tasks for my team for the next sprint in TFS. Existing UIs for this purpose were too sl-o-o-o-w, both built-in Team Explorer and Web Access (I mean Web Access for TFS 2010; 2012 is better in this context). The most annoying thing is that I usually need to specify just title and estimate for tasks but have to wait until the whole complex task entry form is loaded and then closed. I also found bulk work items generation by means of Excel is not that convenient for addition of hierarchical (parent-child) data. So I made a small utility for this purpose. Details and source code are here:   https://github.com/marss19/bulk-task-generation-in-tfs How to use The main form is divided in 3 parts: main menu: you can select a TFS project here, specify an area and/or an iteration to filter displayed work items and select a template for tasks creation. The default template containing all required fields is created automatically for each proje