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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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 Resharper wont let you save this dialog even though the xml is invalid. Below is the ...

Summary Upon deciding to start this series of blogs I decided that in order for me to consume the Blippr API I would attempt to “try” and make my life easy. I decided that the easiest way would be to start writing a LINQ to Blippr provider (first ever try) so that it was possible to easily consume the Blippr platform in any .NET application I ...

This could help on client sites where they've not changed the out of the box default assemblyinfo settings, and you want to know when a build was made of a particular assembly http://www.geekproject.com/showtopic.aspx?ID=21 When you specify that you want to have Buildnumber and revision automatically generated then the compiler (C#) will ...

Update: 16:37 09/07/2010 – For a more fuller explanation of how to do this see this post - http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/xamlconfig.aspx?msg=3409766#xx3409766xx The following code snippet shows an example of how to load a Configuration class, from an associated XAML file. This can be done in any application that is referencing the ...

A colleague of mine just showed me how to get nice looking C# code blocks into my blog site. Go into your blog dashboard and go to Global Settings, Title, Description and News. In the RawHeader box, paste in the following: <script type="text/javascript" ...