alkampfer on January 9th, 2012

I really like WPF for showing directly in the Visual Studio Output folder all binding errors, but one annoying stuff is that the output windows is usually crowded with all sort of stuff, so you have an hard life identifying the binding errors from all the other output contained in there. Since Visual Studio 2010 [...]

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alkampfer on October 5th, 2011

If you have solutions with multiple projects, compile time can increase a lot, but if you have multicore machine you can reduce compilation time using a little trick described in the blog of Scott Hanselman. In a solution I work with, after a clean of the solution, standard build took 23 seconds to finish, while [...]

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alkampfer on September 28th, 2011

Visual Studio has the concept of grouping files together a feature used mainly from code generation tools to groups generated files under the main file, but this feature can be used even for your class, as shown in Figure1. Figure 1: Two code files nested inside program.cs There are a lot of reasons to group [...]

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alkampfer on September 27th, 2011

To test dev 11 preview I’ve setup several virtual machines, just to be sure not to ruin my main installation box, since dev 11 is a developer preview and is not a good idea installing pre-beta release on production machine (even if dev 11 preview is really stable). One of the annoying stuff in running [...]

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alkampfer on August 17th, 2011

This is the third post on the series “create a macro to Attach to Local IIS”. The last modification I want to implement is the ability to list all the w3wp.exe active processes, if more than one process is present, I want it to show a list of all IIS processes and let the user [...]

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