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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 becomes as easy as using the property grid... <UserControl ...

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 ...

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/). N.B. Up until the time of writing this post, the <MediaElement> that ...

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 should break, pause execution, at a certain point. When a break occurs, your program and the ...

See here http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2008/04/29/hacking-visual-studio-to-use-more-than-2gigabytes-of-memory.aspx

A colleague of mine this week showed me his code coverage as being over 94% for his production code, which impressed me so much, it spurred me on to ensure that all code paths in my code from now on go blue instead of red when testing with Team coverage, using the Test driven .NET addin for visual studio 2008. Not sure what I'm on about, then ...

For a blog detailing all the new features with.NET3.5 and Visual studio 2008, including javascript intellisense and //<reference> syntax,check out Scott Gu's blog post here.  http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-and-net-3-5-released.aspx

Was just reading on Scott Gu's blog about the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5, and came across an excellent description of the new extension methods feature in .Net 3.5. I have to say that until I saw this blog post, the quick overview from Mike Taulty at TechEd lost me somewhat as to what the purpose of these extension methods is, ...