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We developers have T4 in Visual Studio. I’ve been playing with this for a while now and use it more often to speed up repetitive tasks. The Business Intelligence team has BIML in Visual Studio. A colleague asked me to … Continue reading → ...

My WPF application uses custom controls in a referenced library. To simplify deployment, all dependent DLLs are embedded resources of the application EXE file. Read Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #2 from CLR via C#, Third Edition to get the details. The … Continue reading → ...

Origional post here. My version of the fiddler CustomRules.js file below. Filed under: Fiddler Tagged: Compat inspector, Compatibility, Fiddler, IE ...

A best pratice in Object Oriented Programming is the use of Interfaces. When applied correctly it simplifies unit testing. But watch out for the pitfall of default implementation by Visual Studio. Below is an example how this can bite you. … Continue reading → ...

Recently I noticed getting a usable internet connection took a long time after boot-up. After the login screen, I would switch to the desktop and start Internet Explorer. The window was empty for quite some time, but when it showed … Continue reading → ...

First some tips from Scott Hanselman to get the look-and-feel back. Next to replace the pre- and postbuild macro with an add-in. The template takes care of the plumbing and running/debugging will make it available for use. Make sure to … Continue reading → ...

I’ve been using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 on my Windows 8 machine for a while now. Never had an issue until today when I tried to start the profiler. Turns out the driver it uses is not compatible with Windows … Continue reading → ...

The background color of Visual Studio 2010 is a dark blue gradient. Problem is the gradient gives a flickering effect on external monitors when the frequency is under 75 Hz. I want to change it to a solid color. Visual … Continue reading → ...

Setting up the remote debugger from Windows 8 (Visual Studio) to Windows XP SP3 (Program) was a fight, but I won. Read my steps below. Program machine ~ virtualxp Add a user for remote debugging that will be available on … Continue reading → ...

In my previous post I pointed out how to implement the Jeffrey Richter alternative to ILmerge on WPF applications. Now I want to show you how to do this with class libraries using module initializers tool from Einar Egilsson. Again … Continue reading → ...