For months I have been suffering from long delays when I delete a file from solution explorer in Visual Studio. 
Minutes… slow, dreadful minutes.  
I thought it was Resharper’s fault or VisualSVN's but nay.  It’s because I have a large recycle bin, which is fully scanned every time you delete a file.  After I emptied the recycle [...]

Tree Surgeon 2.0 released

Bil Simser just released Tree Surgeon 2.0.
TreeSurgeon automates the creation of a new project development tree, complete with a VS solution, a test project, a console project and a "core" project.  It also automates the creation of a Nant build file which is set up to generate an Ncover report.
  
The first thing I wanted [...]

To turn on visual indicators of whitespace in Visual Studio, use the keyboard chord (Ctrl-R, Ctrl-W) (setting found in Tools > Environment > Options):

Instead of nothing:

You can now see:

By default, when I set the insertion point on line 12 and hit Enter, Visual Studio inserted spaces instead of tabs:

To turn this off, change [...]