Visual Studio

Formatting Your WPF Data – String.Format is in the House!

Hi.When working with WPF I always found myself thinking how to handle Data formatting when a WPF control was bound to it. Let’s look at the following example...

0 replies - 884 views - 05/28/09 by AmitDev102 in News

Windows 7 Taskbar in 10 Minutes

I posted the fourth, and last, part of my Screen-Cast series on implementing the Windows 7 Taskbar features in less than 10 minutes :-) (well, I ran little...

0 replies - 677 views - 05/21/09 by guntherlenz in Articles

Parameter count mismatch Error

Let me share you with one of the weirdest errors I ever encountered. Recently, I have been working on a distributed application which is built from a server...

0 replies - 561 views - 05/20/09 by shaharDev102 in News

Install the Surface SDK SP1 Workstation Edition on x64

The Surface SDK SP1 Workstation Edition was released this week and while it will install (but is still unsupported) on Windows 7, it will not install on a...

0 replies - 1388 views - 05/14/09 by peekb in News

Microsoft MEF Q&A with Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira

I recently had an opportunity to bounce a few questions off the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) team at Microsoft. Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira was...

2 replies - 3290 views - 05/12/09 by Aslam Khan in Articles

Optimize Your db4o Techniques in 6 Pages!

Whether you're advanced in db40 and want increased efficiency or you want to learn basic operations, you'll find what you're looking for in this free, 6-page...

0 replies - 2682 views - 05/11/09 by lyndsey in Announcements

How To Have Visual Studio Load XSD Schemas Automatically

At work we include XSD schemas in our Framework to allow developers to configure their web.config or app.config files and get Intellisense.   This helps to...

0 replies - 708 views - 05/08/09 by Keith Elder in News

The Influence of MVC on my WPF

I was introduced to MVC as a pattern for Web development through Castle MonoRail. From there I studied a bit of Ruby on Rails (not enough) as well as the...

0 replies - 974 views - 05/07/09 by bennage in News

Visual Studio Tip: Open XAML in code only mode

A major annoyance of mine after installing a new instance of Visual Studio is when I open a XAML document for the first time. By default, Visual Studio opens a...

0 replies - 401 views - 04/24/09 by cschuman in News

Another List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio Shortcuts

Hey all,   a while back we had 2 great posts and one page about visual studio shortcuts. The first one had a list of 10 Visual Studio Shortcuts and the...

1 replies - 916 views - 04/22/09 by AmitDev102 in News

Testing in the Application Lifecycle with Visual Studio 2010 Test Edition

a translated version of an article Rob and I wrote for the Dutch .NET Magazine. Visual Studio Test Edition will be significantly extended in the...

0 replies - 1333 views - 04/21/09 by clemensreijnen in News

How To Run a ClickOnce Application on Startup

When .Net 2.0 launched several years ago, WinForm developers got a brand new technology baked into the framework that allowed WinForm applications to be...

1 replies - 1572 views - 04/20/09 by Keith Elder in News

Don’t Use a WPF Control in Windows.Resource

Hi   Here is a problem that one of my colleagues who is just starting to use WPF got himself into. He was working on an application that displays items...

0 replies - 726 views - 04/03/09 by AmitDev102 in News

F#: Forcing type to unit for Assert.ShouldThrow in XUnit.NET

I've started playing around with F# again and decided to try and create some unit tests around the examples I'm following from Real World Functional...

0 replies - 439 views - 03/29/09 by markhneedham in News

Reassessing What the Debugger Is For

When I first started programming in a 'proper' IDE one of the things that I thought was really cool was the ability to debug through my code whenever something...

0 replies - 596 views - 03/20/09 by markhneedham in News