Welcome to EMC Consulting Blogs

Browse by Tags

• .NET
• .NET 2.0
• .NET 3.0
• .NET 3.5
• ASP.NET 2.0
• Automaton
• C#
• C# 2.0
• code
• ConnectionString
• Gotcha
• Guidance Automation Extensions
• Howto
• LINQ
• Microsoft
• msbuild
• Regular Expressions
• Resharper
• Team Foundation Server
• Team System
• teched
• Vista
• WCF
• Windows API
• WPF

• 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

• How to use the Resharper Stack Trace Explorer

  Copy a stack trace to your clipboard, open the resharper stack trace explorer, and hit Ctrl+E, T. Once you’ve done this the lines reported in the stack trace become hyperlinks to the files in your project. Read More... Posted 29 June 2010 13:21 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, .NET, C# 2.0, Visual Studio, code, Howto

• Using d:DataContext design time expression with Visual Studio 2010 Xaml file editing

  Setting the design time datacontext in visual studio 2010 in your xaml file, makes intellitype work for a deep traversal of any of your view model properties... You can set the data context type to your view mode, and then data binding to your view model Read More... Posted 04 May 2010 14:53 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio, code, .NET 3.5, Howto, WPF

• Removing regionalisation from Resharper 5.0 code clean up

  To stop resharper 5.0 code clean up from embracing all your code in #region #endregion tags, remove the <Group> xml nodes from the Type Members Layout settings as follows. Note, don't close the </Patterns> tag after pasting in the xml as otherwise Read More... Posted 28 April 2010 12:13 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, Visual Studio, Gotcha, Howto, Resharper

• Reset window layout in Visual Studio and exported settings

  Recently I discovered that the reset window layout menu option in most flavours of visual studio (at least 2008 and 2010), respects the layout that your workspace was in at the time of exporting your environment settings. This is down to the fact that Read More... Posted 19 April 2010 14:11 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, .NET, C# 2.0, Visual Studio, Gotcha, .NET 3.5, Howto

• Media Streaming in Windows 7 and WPF (Part 2)

  In Part 1 I discussed how you can stream windows media from windows 7 machine using windows media player 12 to another. Here I'll show you how you can open an rtsp stream in a WPF windows application using the VLC media player WPF control ( http://vlcdotnet.codeplex.com/ Read More... Posted 01 February 2010 12:04 by merrick.chaffer | 1 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio, code, .NET 3.5, Howto, WPF

• No files were found to look in. Find was stopped in progress

  Alt+Break to solve this in VS2008 More info here... http://vidmar.net/weblog/archive/2007/04/17/Strangest-error-No-files-were-found-to-look-in.-Find.aspx Read More... Posted 30 October 2009 11:49 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio

• ASPNET_REGIIS.exe problems installing ASP.NET

  Recently I had an issue where aspnet_regiis.exe -i was not updating the home directory configuration for my web root in Windows XP SP2. To resolve this I used the following commands, suggested by my colleague Mark Mann , instead to first remove all script Read More... Posted 29 July 2008 10:38 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows API, Microsoft, .NET, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio, ASP.NET 2.0, Gotcha

• Insert tracepoint in Visual Studio for Debug.WriteLine alternative

  For those who like me didn’t know about this hidden gem : You can now set Tracepoints instead of just Breakpoints in VS2008. Here’s the difference between the two as described on MSDN: “Breakpoints tell the debugger that an application Read More... Posted 23 June 2008 13:04 by merrick.chaffer | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, C# 2.0, Visual Studio, code, .NET 3.5

• Hacking visual studio to use greater than 2GB of memory

  See here http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2008/04/29/hacking-visual-studio-to-use-more-than-2gigabytes-of-memory.aspx Read More... Posted 13 June 2008 15:15 by merrick.chaffer | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, .NET, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio, .NET 3.0, Gotcha, .NET 3.5