Manni on DotNet

Just tried ReSharper on a fairly large solution with about 38 projects (13 C# and 25 C++). With the ReSharper addin enabled the memory cons...

Right now McAfee is running a full system scan on my computer. Not only is it consuming a large amount of system resources - sometimes to t...

When assessing the memory consumption of the Subversion (SVN) 1.6.1 client , I also found the following on SVN's web site: "all the...

Just had a "experience" of the undesired kind. Normally when you use the middle mouse button on a link in Firefox, it opens the pa...

With the client SVN 1.6.1 (32 bit on Windows) I ran into an issue today. I tried to commit 13,000 files with about 100 MBytes of size. Mos...

At present (.NET 3.5 SP 1) a GetItemAt() method doesn't exist for the ListView class that is part of WPF. At least I couldn't find i...

Again a small item that may take you some time to search and find on the internet. Suppose you are working on a WPF based application and yo...

I'm working on a WPF based application and as quite some applications do, I need to display an OpenFileDialog as well. Trying to be comp...

Trivial task and yet worth mentioning: You want a separator in your XAML based application (WPF or Silverlight)? Use System.Windows.Controls...

Using Expression Blend 2 you may believe that you can have only two GradientStop's for your LinearGradientBrush in particular if you are...

Again a small item but something you may have searched for quite a while. In a XAML based user interface (WPF, Silverlight) if you want you...

When working on a WPF based application and using the Image control you may encounter the following error message when trying to enter the s...

If you see a ConfigurationErrorsException along with the information "Configuration system failed to initialize" in your QuickWatc...

ASP.NET allows selectively replacing provider implementations with your own custom implementation, e.g. when you want to store membership in...

csUnit 2.6 has been released and is available for download. More information is available here . The major points of interest are: csUnit is...

You may encounter this error message when you try to add a WCF base service to your web service project. The additional text of this error ...

Updating a Silverlight based user interface from a timer may not work as expected. The reason is that the timer thread is different from the...

A few days ago I wrote about adding support for MS Unit Testing to csUnit (see here ). Since I am also using ReSharper it sometimes sugges...

Starting with C# 3.0 the language supports the concept of implicit typing at the method level using 'var'. While on one hand this ne...

One way to pass errors from methods back to a caller is using Exceptions. Unfortunately that doesn't work with services since a caller m...