Visual Studio Achievements

• Completed
  • Lonely (5 points)

    Code on a Friday or Saturday night. Coding? Tonight? Ouch.

    12 minutes ago

  • Regional Manager (7 points)

    Add 10 regions to a class. Your code is so readable, if I only didn’t have to keep collapsing and expanding!

    5 hours ago

  • On The Shoulders of Giants (10 points)

    Reference 25 assemblies. Hey, why should you write it if someone else already did?

    5 hours ago

  • Gotta Be Different (5 points)

    Load custom Visual Studio settings. I swear, they never get the default settings right.

    5 hours ago

  • Install and Register For Visual Studio Achievements (5 points)

    Install the add-in and register with Channel9. You are up and running!

    5 hours ago

  • Extensions Junkie Deluxe (10 points)

    Install 10 extensions to Visual Studio. How can you find anything on a menu?

    5 hours ago

  • Extensions Junkie (5 points)

    Install 5 extensions to Visual Studio. Extensibility rocks!

    5 hours ago

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  • Turtles All The Way Down (0 points)

    Write a class with ten levels of inheritance. Now that’s a sweet inheritance! Uses FxCop.

  • Field Master (0 points)

    Have 100 fields in a single class. Gnarly! Uses FxCop

  • Magic Numbers (0 points)

    Write a enum with 30 fields. Who needs numbers when you’ve got words! Uses FxCop

  • Job Security (0 points)

    Write 20 single letter class level variables in one file. Kudos to you for being cryptic! Uses FxCop

  • Scroll Bar Wizard (0 points)

    Write a single line of 300 characters long. Who needs carriage returns? Uses FxCop

  • Localization Guru (10 points)

    Have 1000 localized values. Nice localization work!

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) (5 points)

    Invoke the ‘Close All But This’ menu option 10 times. I mean, who invented those damn tabs anyway?

  • Stubby (5 points)

    Generate method stubs 9 times. You’re a TDD bad ass!

  • Cheater (5 points)

    Invoke an IntelliTrace Menu 10 times. Tools rule! Learn more about Intellitrace.

  • Architect (5 points)

    Add 10 items to a sequence diagram. You’re not just a developer; you’re an architect! Learn more about sequence diagrams.

  • Performance (5 points)

    Invoke performance tools 10 times. Why is this app running so slow? Now I know! Learn more about analyzing application performance using profiling tools.

  • Time For An Upgrade (10 points)

    A solution takes 10 minutes to compile. Dag, that’s one enormous solution!

  • Complex (10 points)

    Have 50 projects in a solution. That’s kinda scary.

  • Using Just What I Need (7 points)

    Used ‘Organize Usings’ 50 times. Unused usings are evil!

  • UML God (5 points)

    Create a UML Class Diagram 10 times. Code is for sissies. Models! Models! Models! Learn more about UML in Visual Studio.

  • Potty Mouth (5 points)

    Use 5 different curse words in a file. Wash that mouth out with soap!

  • Go To Hell (0 points)

    Use of the goto keyword. Um, I heard it was a best practice that you weren’t supposed to do that anymore.

  • Suspicious (10 points)

    Use 5 preprocessor directives. Compiler commands — aren’t you fancy!

  • The Explorer (5 points)

    Start a debug session using step into (F11) more than 10 times. Ah, the power of F11. Every coder’s best friend.

  • Casual Observer (5 points)

    Start a debug session using step over (F10) more than 10 times. I thank the debugger every day.

  • Equal Opportunist (10 points)

    Write a class with public, private, protected and internal members. It’s all about scope. Uses FxCop

  • Interrupting Cow (5 points)

    Have 10 breakpoints in a file.Where’s that bug? Could here, could be there, could be anywhere!

  • Start Me Up (5 points)

    Have 3 startup projects. You’ve got a lot on your plate!

  • Save A Tree (5 points)

    Print source code. My boss told me to. I swear!

  • Overload (5 points)

    More than 10 overloads of a method. You could go with this or you could go with that. Uses FxCop