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Yes I know the above probably doesn’t make much sense when first read. But the truth is that in any convention based system, there is going to be some configuration, we can’t avoid it completely. I’ve been working with using XAML as a configuration method in a convention based application where we had the requirement to pull in some details ...

As I carry on my way to learning the XNA framework to hopefully create some awesome games on the Windows Phone 7 devices I thought I would share a few resources that I find along the way. Turns out the AT&T developer program are generously hosting a few webcasts to help developers get underway.  The first webcast which I had missed can ...

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 2008, and the path to the vsvars32.bat. Then any folder that you select you’ll see a ...

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.

If you see this error when hosting a WCF service under IIS 7.5 on Windows 7, HTTP Error 404.17 - Not Found The requested content appears to be script and will not be served by the static file handler. then you will need to ensure you have the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1 options selected, from add remove programs, turn windows features on / ...

Pocket Rocket With all the excitement of the new Windows 7 Mobile Phone being released I thought it was time to get my head into something new.  I have started to build a small game that I hope to release to the Microsoft Marketplace in time for the release of the new Windows Mobile 7 devices. This is my first attempt at building a game ...

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 ...

In windows 7 you may have noticed when items are copying across in windows explorer, that you get a nice progress bar reported on your task bar for windows explorer. This can be achieved in your own WPF applications using the Window.TaskBarItemInfo dependency property as ...

If you have issues whereby the installation of Windows Phone Developer Tools wont install as it says it is already installed, when attempting to install the April refresh, then look here for the solution… Aaron Stebner's WebLog  XNA Game Studio Cleanup Tool User's Guide http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/pages/9544320.aspx

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 under the general settings tree view node in the export dialog, the Window Layouts option is ...