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In Visual Studio 2008 (and possibly other versions) when you create a C# project in many cases the wizard also creates the AssemblyInfo.cs f...

Since I'm using csUnit and ReSharper in combination I certainly would like to have a better integration here. While JetBrains provides a...

Namespace System.Diagnostics contains the class Process. With this class you can determine how many modules your process has loaded, even ac...

We are using TeamCity for continuous integration. Here I'll give provide a few tips in particular for people who are less familiar with ...

Trying to stay on top of the latest UI developments of Windows was never easy not only from a technical perspective. At times it also appear...

In case you try to use the Fusion Log Viewer (fuslogvw.exe) and you can't change the Log Settings because they are all disabled then sim...

On July 07, 2009, Microsoft published the download for the "Silverlight 3 Tools" for Visual Studio 2008. You can find a short lis...

In a WPF application (as of .NET 3.5) you can set the background color for a text block as follows: < TextBlock ... Background ="Re...

Both WPF and Silverlight share XAML as the language to describe the layout, look and feel of a user interface. So I thought. There are diffe...

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...