Manni on DotNet

Just tried to use Microsoft’s online documentation for ModelStateDictionary.AddModelError() . The following picture is a screen shot as of 3...

Ok, this is not a .NET topic at all. Still. This problem got increasingly annoying on my Vista laptop. Upon each reboot, and at least once a...

When you search the net for a solution to formatting source code for your blog there won’t be a shortage of hits. I’ve tried quite a large n...

Sending an email can be tested in many different ways. One option could be setting up an account with an online email provider (Yahoo, Hotma...

In my last two posts I wrote about memory consumption of the VS 2010/Resharper 5 combo. In one of the posts I demonstrated how an average o...

After some discussions with a friend (thank you, Steve!) I have conducted further tests. This time I ran my little experiment with just Visu...

The final word on memory consumption for R# is still not said. It looks as if the jury is till out. But judge for yourself. I ran the foll...

Feature-wise Microsoft’s new Visual Studio 2010 is definitely a big step forward. I spare you the details. In addition a large number of ext...

Sometimes you may want to protect certain functionality from being used by automated tools. One way of preventing this from happening is usi...

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...