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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I've given up on it and uninstalled it... I have so many of my projects that work with SQL Server CE and since upgrading to the Beta none of them have worked... I thought it was me for a while, but even the simplest application with only a SqlCeConnection.Open() method in it doesn't work! I didn't delve in to the problem to much as ...

 Avoid Boxing,use generics... See here http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/effectivecspart1.asp#item3 Also if the method has a IDisposable, then clean it up after... (the GC will get rid of it, but we don't want the GC to do it if we can)

Symptom  Aspnet_compiler.exe fails to produce any content apart from the PreCompiledApp.config and the Bin folder. Reason  When you save a solution containing a web project (file based), it sets the physical path property Debug.AspNetCompiler.PhysicalPath for the aspnet_compiler. If you then subsequently save your ...

I've been playing around with this for a while now and I'm very happy that these guys have gone to RC1 already... Good work...  SMS Toolkit SDK

24/01/2012 - Have added an update at the bottom of this article today, as it turns out that for Simple Enumerations this is not required by the DataContractSerializer. In order to pass Enum values around to your WCF service operations, then you must put [ServiceKnownType(typeof(Enum))] attribute on the service interface contract, and also add ...