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Chapter 13, Enhancing Visual Studio

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fixing any problems. If this does not work, you can take a couple of other

steps to try and get the add-in working again.

Visual Studio includes a command-line switch called

/setup that will do a

reset on Visual Studio, restoring it to its initial state. Using this switch will

erase some of your customizations, but sometimes it is the only way to get

an add-in, or even Visual Studio itself, working properly again.

There is also a

/safemode command-line switch that will start Visual Studio

in safe mode. Visual Studio safe mode loads only the default environment

and services, which disables any VSIP add-ins (not all add-ins) that might be

causing a problem.

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Run Unit Tests Inside Visual Studio Hack #93

Testing can be just a few clicks away when you use TestDriven.NET to run

unit tests right inside of Visual Studio.

Test Driven Development is the practice of writing unit tests for your code

before you actually write that code. By writing a test and then writing the

code to make that test pass, you have a much better idea of the goal and

purpose of your code. Test Driven Development also encourages complete

code coverage, which not only increases the quality of your code, but also

allows you to refactor the internals of a method or class and quickly and eas-

ily test the outside interface of the object.

TestDriven.NET ...