When you add a new coded ui test map to a project, Visual Studio conveniently organizes the accompanying .uitest, .cs, and .designer.cs files into a neat, unified bundle: So you’d THINK that’s what would happen when you copy an existing coded ui map from another project into a new one. But nooooo, Visual Studio just …

Today I encountered a very aggravating exception while playing back some coded ui tests. I had a grid control, with multiple rows. On one row, I could perform a mouse click. But on another row, I consistenly got a FailedToPerformActionOnBlockedControlException. Yet nothing was blocking the row.

I found this little gem of a regular expression when I was looking for a quick way to eradicate the regions from some code I inherited.

Ah, regions. The source of a great holy war in the realm of Visual Studio software development. To use them, or not to use them. My coworkers all seem to think they’re great. But I hate them with the fire of a thousand suns. In my mind, no one put it better than the guy …

I just lost 60 minutes of my life… and I’m never getting it back. About a year ago my dad asked me to write him an Excel addin that would shuffle some data around, do some minor aggregations, yadda yadda yadda. Nothing major. Being the good son I am, I got started right away. Gosh, …