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• MSB3247: Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly.

  Had been getting this recently in our builds, and have finally tracked it down to conflicting versions of the Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common.dll in our project references. This came about as one of our developers was using VS 2010, but the rest were still Read More... Posted 22 March 2011 16:13 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, .NET, code, Gotcha, msbuild, Howto

• Microsoft Tech Days

  Online events and recordings of previous events can be found here… http://uktechdays.cloudapp.net/home.aspx Read More... Posted 02 March 2011 16:19 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, .NET, code, teched, Howto, .NET4.0

• ElementHost rendering issues with the Windows Aero theme enabled

  Came across this issue on the project I’ve been working on. When resizing a form that contained the System.Windows.Forms.Integration. ElementHost control to host WPF content inside a Windows Forms control, we noticed that the new screen real estate inside Read More... Posted 23 February 2011 13:42 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, .NET, Gotcha, .NET 3.5, Howto, WPF, .NET4.0

• Virtualization in WPF with VirtualizingStackPanel

  Finally managed to figure out how to get virtualization to actually behave itself in a listbox wpf control. Turns out that in order for Virtualization to work, you need three things satisfied.  1) Use a control that supports virtualization (e.g. Read More... Posted 14 February 2011 11:13 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, .NET, code, .NET 3.5, WPF, .NET4.0

• How to determine event subscriptions at runtime

  I’ve been wanting to know this for years, and finally discovered it the other day when looking inside the Microsoft Composite Application Blocks class in Microsoft.Practices.CompositeUI.BuilderStrategies. CommandStrategy. There’s some code in this class Read More... Posted 02 February 2011 09:58 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, .NET, .NET 2.0, code, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, Howto, .NET4.0

• My outings with Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR R2

  A while ago on the project I’ve been working on recently, I was having issues with my development environment which for some reason had stopped wanting to deploy our database project to my newly created sql server 2008 instance. This was on a new build Read More... Posted 01 February 2011 13:20 by merrick.chaffer | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, .NET, code, Gotcha, .NET 3.5, msbuild, Howto, .NET4.0, SQL 2008

• Intellisense for T4 templating with .tt files in Visual Studio

  There's 2 products (both with free versions) you can use for T4 intellisense: One is by Clarius at http://www.visualt4.com/ . But best to go with Tangible's T4 editor at http://t4-editor.tangible-engineering.com/T4-Editor-Visual-T4-Editing.html (available Read More... Posted 27 January 2011 14:43 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, .NET, code, Guidance Automation Extensions, .NET 3.5, Howto, WPF, .NET4.0

• Safe thread synchronization

  Just came across a great article on the web when searching for topics relating to Thread safety. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc188793.aspx#S2 Read More... Posted 22 September 2010 15:06 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, .NET, code, Howto, .NET4.0

• PLINQ and TPL Parallel extensions library in .NET 4.0

  A good starting point for learning about the new parallel library extension in .NET 4.0 is here… http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2010/04/04/9990342.aspx also many more resources available from here… http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/concurrency/default.aspx Read More... Posted 14 September 2010 17:55 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, .NET, .NET4.0, Parallel Computing

• Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt here

  To create this, just download the inf file for 2005 from Scott Hansleman’s blog post here… http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioCommandPromptHereAndSearchUnknownFileExtensions.aspx   and then alter it in notepad for all references to 2005 to Read More... Posted 30 June 2010 11:47 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Visual Studio, Howto