Manni on DotNet

I posted in the past about the memory consumption of ReSharper 4.5 with large solutions containing C# but also many C++ projects with over ...

In certain situations empty arrays of a specific type can be handy. Of course you could always use “new MyType[0]” to instantiate such an em...

Ok, I’ve been a bit quiet on csUnit for a while. The reason being that I tried to get a plug-in for ReSharper running. And to some degree I ...

In one of my recent posts I demonstrated how to implement a simple WCF service using Visual Studio 2008. This time I’ll look at how to impl...

As described here you can run into an error when trying to install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (x86, 64bit) on a Vista (64bit). The error mes...

Microsoft just made available the release candidate (RC) for Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. The downloads are available for...

Today I ran across a challenge with WiX , which took me a couple of hours to resolve. Maybe I can help you saving this time by describing wh...

Ok, maybe I’m missing the point, but here is an item I don’t understand: When you want to throw an ArgumentException with the parameter nam...

I’m aware that there are quite a few examples already for how to implement and consume services using WCF in Visual Studio 2008. However, I’...

If you are using both ASP.NET Web Deployment Projects and Subversion you might have come across the issue that the deployment project copies...

It's a bit strange but I'm observing the following: ASP.NET Web Application + Service Reference + master page = compile errors in f...

With the new features that are part of the DLR you can create plenty of cool stuff like Dynamic Method Bags , ExpandoObject , etc. More blog...

Just noticed that running tests through Selenium RC in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) displays a message containing an info to disable pop-up bl...

Where possible I try to implement functionality with the minimum code I can get away with. Yes, that means that I leave out all 'flexibi...

Testing master pages in ASP.NET using Selenium can be tricky at the beginning since ASP.NET mangles the identifiers of controls on your page...

Until recently we used InstallShield for all our software packaging needs. It was never a love relationship as the product is complicated to...

Working on a web based user interface? New or existing? Need automated testing? No problem: Use Selenium . Yes, it's Java-based but that...

One way of loading an assembly into an AppDomain is using the static method Assembly.LoadFrom (). An interesting aspect here is: Which fold...

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...