By Tamir Dresher Visual Studio comes with a built-in Visual Tree Visualizer which is really useful, but in order to start using it you have to find a reference to the instance of the FrameworkElement (i.e. UserControl, Window etc.) that you want to visualize. Getting the reference to the desired FrameworkElement is especially hard if you are using proper MVVM architecture style, since most (if not all) of your code is located in the ViewModel and the ViewModel doesn’t have a reference to the … more

By Michael Sutton Writing Coded UI tests is usually pretty easy: using the right tool, you can simply record some UI interactions, and the tool will generate code which will replay your actions programmatically. Well, I was trying to do that for automating OzCode’s UI tests, but it wasn't as easy as I expected. For testing OzCode’s features, we obviously need to run a Visual Studio instance with a debugged application, and play around with the different features while debugging. In our case we … more

By Amir Zuker The Task Parallel Library (TPL) was released officially along with .NET 4.0 and it’s the new way of implementing and consuming asynchronous work. This post assumes you have basic experience with the TPL already, if not you can read more about it here.  In this post I will discuss the scenarios that exist in the TPL in regards to exception handling, and there are more than a few. A task represents an asynchronous unit of work, and as you can see, you only need an Action in … more

We’ve been busy-bees here at OzCode over the past few weeks, working diligently to talk to our users and figure out the remaining one-off bugs and stability issues that still remain before we can release a stable v1.0.

This version fixes some stability issues in the recently-reimplemented Search feature, and also solves conflicts with some 3rd party tools such as NCover and Xamarin. If you’ve had issues with OzCode errors popping up while debugging a Xamarin Android or iOS project, … more

Our Chief Architect Alon Fliess, and CTO Pavel Yosifovich recently attended the MVP Summit in Redmond. They met up with Channel9’s Robert Green to talk about OzCode on the Visual Studio Toolbox Show. Here’s the video for your enjoyment! more

Today we’re excited to announce another RC of OzCode! Over the past few weeks we’ve been mulling over your feedback and working tirelessly to improve the stability of OzCode. Many issues were resolved in this release – we’ve fixed OzCode’s support for high-DPI multi-monitor environments, improved the compatibility story with IntelliTrace, and eliminated an issue which caused slow Step-Overs in Windows Phone debugging.

There remain a few open issues we … more

We’re gearing up towards the first public release of OzCode v1.0, and today we’re announcing the second Release Candidate of OzCode. Based on great feedback from our users, we’ve packed-in a huge amount of improvements in this release, as well as improved upon the radical performance improvements in Search, Compare, and Save Snapshots that were introduced in the first RC. Please note that the new, rocket-fast Search implementation does not work yet in Windows Phone, Windows Store, and … more

  It’s been a busy year for us at CodeValue! Since announcing OzCode earlier this year, we’ve added tons of new features and improved many existing ones. Today we’re reaching a historic milestone, and announcing the Release Candidate (RC) of OzCode v1.0! The highlights of this release include support for Visual Studio 2013 and a radical performance improvement (up to 300%) in “Search”, “Compare With…” and “Save Snapshot” features! In addition, tons of bugs and minor issues were fixed. The … more