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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 back on VS 2008. Anyway, I thought I’d blog around how we traced this issue down in the end, ...

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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 the ElementHost was not redrawn at all. Rather it just left a black border around the original ...

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. list box or list view). (see Controls That Implement Performance Features section at bottom of ...

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 of a machine that I had previously used, but had decided to upgrade the operating system on. As ...

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 through the Extension Manager in VS2010 under tools). Also if you want to get a bit more ...

Last night I presented to the London Connected Systems User Group on the subject of Windows Identity Foundation (WIF). The LCSUG community is focussed around building and integrating services. One architectural concern that has been widely ignored in service oriented architecture is identity and access control. Web based identity protocols such ...

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

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 Perhaps more useful for quickly assimulating the knowledge, is to watch the ...

For example if you wish to create a MefExtensions directory for a main assembly to use the DirectoryCatalog to load in plugins at application startup then add this to your sub project's post build event SET DestDir=MefExtensions SET DestDir=$(SolutionDir)\$(SolutionName)\$(OutDir)%DestDir%\ IF NOT EXIST %DestDir%. (md %DestDir%.) ELSE erase /Q ...