Manni on DotNet

Using Windows2.CreateToolWindow2() to create a VisualStudio addin tool window? If you do, then maybe you want to check how often it is call...

csUnit 2.5 is very well received but since we are always trying to find improvements I'd like to share a couple of items that we plan f...

To find encrypted files on Windows Vista do this: Open a command prompt and switch to a directory in which you have write permissions. Run t...

What is the name of a command when you register it for an addin? Typically you use Commands.AddNamedCommand() to register a command. The se...

When implementing custom installers you sometimes may want to created directories when the setup is executed. This may not be sufficient sin...

ReSharper has this nice feature to make you aware of code that are not necessarily required. I like this feature since it allows me to redu...

A minor issue but still it might bother you while working with your code. The C# editor (and possibly others) of Visual Studio offers colla...

Some classes need to be serializable. Even if you use the SerializableAttribute to mark it up you may run into the issue that a Serializatio...

This time I' d like to make you aware of a wee weakness of the Visual Studio debugger. Suppose you have overloaded the Equals() method ...

Not too long ago I wrote about Property Getters with bad manors ( here ). I suggested ways for doing better but I would like to share more o...

Ok, maybe my system was completely screwed up and that's why it didn't work. But to the best of my knowledge I have a Vista Ultimate...

Assume you have a custom action for your installer and you'd like to access a parameter (or call it a variable or property) from within ...

As I mentioned in my previous post one of the options you have to ensure you have sufficient rights to attach to a process, I'd like to ...

The other day when I was working within Visual Studio 2005 on Vista, I encountered the problem that I couldn't attach the debugger to so...

An anonymous writer posted on Slashdot that Sun Microsystem has announced that parts of MySQL will be closed-sourced, e.g. backup solutions...

I promised to provide more details about my ReSharper experience as I go. So here is an item that I perceive as a nuisance. Sometimes, when...

Since the March '08 release of csUnit we have thought about what area we should focus on next. We have improved the performance, we hav...

For quite some time I have been using ReSharper now, currently version 3.1. Bottom line it helps creating better code and it has features t...

What's ControlPaint for? Well, you can use it for different purposes, e.g. for printing a form including the controls on it properly re...

In the sources of a 3rd party library that I'm using I found the following code: public static int Counter { get { int cnt = c...