Labs

Visual Studio Extension: Customize Visual Studio Window Title

Visual Studio Extension: Customize Visual Studio Window Title This lightweight extension allows changing the window title of Visual Studio to include a folder tree with a configurable min depth and max depth distance from the solution/project file, and the use of special tags to help with many other possible scenarios (Git, Mercurial, TFS…). Solution-specific overriding rules are available as well to cover virtually […]

Visual Studio Extension: Hide “No Source Available” tab

Visual Studio Extension: Hide “No Source Available” tab This small extension will prevent the tool window with title “No Source Available” from appearing in Visual Studio, and preserve the focus on the currently active tab. Alas, along with brilliant features such as IntelliTrace, Visual Studio otherwise displays a tab stating that it cannot find source code where to step into. This is obvious […]

ASIN ⇔ EAN converter

ASIN ⇔ EAN converter Since I was needing an EAN to ASIN converter and ASIN to EAN converter (barcode and Amazon code), but could not find any on the web, I decided to write one myself. It is always fun to learn a new API (here I used Amazon Web Services). And when it works exactly as you expect, […]

Matlab: Convert between world time zones with DST

Matlab: Convert between world time zones with DST As I could find no built-in function nor reliable contribution to achieve that, I had no choice but to write my own, leveraging the GregorianCalendar Java class. Usage is quite simple: The datenum dn corresponds to the datetime you want to convert. Just specify from which timezone it comes and the target timezone, and you […]

Visual Studio Extension: Debug Single Thread

Visual Studio Extension: Debug Single Thread This Visual Studio extension adds two shortcuts and toolbar buttons to allow developers to easily focus on single threads while debugging multi-threaded applications. It dramatically reduces the need to manually go into the Threads window to freeze/thaw all threads but the one that needs to be followed, and therefore helps improve productivity. Features Restrict further […]