How to select code blocks vertically in VS Code

Shift + Alt + Select with Mouse

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Run a set of Visual Studio load tests at once using Command Line

Normally, if you have only one load test environment and have a bunch of load tests that need to run, you need to wait for each test finished then start to run the next test manually.

In order to run them all at one time, we can use Visual Studio Command Prompt to run load tests. But we need to prepare .loadtest files for each load test run separately. It means that if you want to run 15 load tests, you need 15 of .loadtest files.

A command to execute load test has shown as follows:

mstest /TestContainer:[Load Test Name].loadtest /resultsfile:[Load Test Result Location].trx

Then, to run a next load test after another finished, create a command prompt script to run them automatically.

For example - create a loadtest.cmd then add the following lines into the script:

mstest /TestContainer:TestA.loadtest /resultsfile:C:\TestA.trx
mstest /TestContainer:TestB.loadtest /resultsfile:C:\TestB.trx

In case run a distributed load test using test controller and agents from the command-line, it need to add "/testsettings:[Test Setting Name].Testsettings" after specify result file in a command.

For more information about load test, you can take a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182588(v=vs.110).aspx.

Python Tools for Visual Studio

Recently, I have tied to get back to Python. One problem when I get back into it is IDE. I did not mean that Python IDEs are not good but I am really get familiar to Visual Studio. Now, there is a good new for Visual Studio user that now it has an extension on Visual Studio support for Python. Link: http://pytools.codeplex.com/.

How to Profiling an application in Visual Studio

Profiling in Visual Studio is a powerful tool to help you identify performance issue based on a multitude of factors. In this post, just give a link to a useful sources for the basic profiling usage here.



References:

1. Profiling an application with Visual Studio – CPU Sampling
2. Understanding Sampling Data Values in Profiling Tools
3. Profiling Tools Performance Session Overview
4. How to profile a XAML Windows Store App
5. Understanding Profiling Methods

How to handle "The path X is already mapped in workspace Y"

Take a look at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2006/09/12/path-is-already-mapped-in-workspace.aspx.

Shortly, you have to remove Team Foundation Server cache that store at "C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\3.0\Cache" named "VersionControl.config". After, you remove it, Visual Studio won't remember the map path from your local path to source control server, then you can map that path to the new server freely.

How to create .apk file from Eclipse and publish app to Android Market (TH)

Look at this link: http://www.unzeen.com/article/1096/ขั้นตอนการสร้างไฟล์-apk-จาก-eclipse-และนำขึ้นสู่-android-market.

Netbeans vs. Eclipse

Check out this link: http://caffeinbean.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/an-up-to-date-and-ongoing-list-of-netbeans-vs-eclipse/.

How to speed up Visual Studio 2010

According to the current version of Visual Studio, that is 2010. We can't deny that this version of Visual Studio is running slower when compared to the previous version (2008). So, I found some blogs wrote about the solution to improve Visual Studio 2010 running performance. I followed his steps, I think it should work for everyone else. Enjoy coding time!

The solution is posted on http://lennybacon.com/2010/10/18/UltimateGuideToSpeedUpVisualStudio.aspx.

Later, it seems like the link I posted is not exist already. So, I would tell the steps from my memory 555.

1. Go to options and click at Environment then look at startup tab. Select show empty environment.

2. Go to main environment tab, in Visual experience, deselect automatically adjust visual experience based on client performance then select Use hardware graphics acceleration if available.

3. Go to IntelliTrace tab, deselect enable IntelliTrace.

4. Go to Buld and Run tab under Projects and Solutions, check at Only build startup projects and dependencies on Run

Finally, I hope that it can help your Visual Studio run faster a bit ^^".

What IDE to use for Python?

See this topic, it may be helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/81584/what-ide-to-use-for-python.
There also has a tool helping us to debug Python program in command shell called IPython. Currently, I don't know how to use it yet. If anyone knows how to use and how it can help us, please let me know ^^.