Fridathon: unstructured learning or hacking you can opt-in to do on any random Friday.

• How to reuse Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) cool type browser editor in your components

  Posted on January 7, 2006

  Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) comes with a very cool UITypeEditor that allows selection of a type in the current project or any of its references: [Read More]

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  • .NET
  • All Technology

• How to get services from the VS DTE (using System.IServiceProvider)

  Posted on January 7, 2006

  How to get services from the VS DTE (using System.IServiceProvider) [Read More]

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  • .NET
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• Retrieving available types in current project and its references (without locking)

  Posted on January 6, 2006

  One very tricky thing inside VS used to be (at least for me until I found the solution I’m about to show you) to list and work with the types defined in the project as well as its references. The problem was mainly how to properly load the types without locking the project output for compilation, as well as retrieving the types for references that could be also project references. It turns out that there is a very cool and absolutely undocumented service in VS that allows you to do just that, writing no code [Read More]

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  • ef
  • .NET
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  • patterns
  • XML

• The pleasure of travelling 16 hours to Redmond with a 2 years old daughter

  Posted on October 25, 2005

  She’s already well-known for being an early adopter, but she always manages to amaze me: [Read More]

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  • Miscelaneous

• GAT slides from Seattle CodeCamp

  Posted on October 24, 2005

  Yesterday I did a talk on GAT at the Seattle CodeCamp. Here are the slides! [Read More]

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  • .NET
  • All Technology
  • GAT

• MVP Summit: the most worthwhile conference ever

  Posted on October 7, 2005

  This week I came back from the MVP 2005 Global Summit. This conference is IMO the most unique and valuable conference Microsoft organizes. Surely, you need to be an MVP to attend ;). Most notable, however, is our product team. The XML team organized two days of amazing sessions that were as much a two-way dialog as you can imagine. We discussed all kinds of things, from current (Whidbey, that is) technology to what’s coming in the future. It was awesome to feel that they really wanted to know what we wanted for the future, as well as the honest... [Read More]

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  • .NET
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• Reflection severely broken for properties

  Posted on September 28, 2005

  PropertyInfo.GetCustomAttributes never returns attributes inherited from the base class if the property is an override. Even worse, if you ask for Attributes.IsDefined with the same values, you will get a true!! :S:S:S… Can’t believe a release of .NET comes out without an automated test for those kinds of things… You can see the bug, get a repro class, and vote for it on Product Feedback. [Read More]

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  • .NET
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• Google + eBay: that would be killer

  Posted on September 25, 2005

  eBay bought Skype (GTalk is not even close to Skype feature-wise) [Read More]

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  • All Technology

• New C# conditional assignment operator ?? for null cases!! (no more ? .. : in C# 2.0)

  Posted on September 20, 2005

  object obj = canBeNull ?? alternativeObj; // equals: object obj = canBeNull != null ? canBeNull : alternativeObj; [Read More]

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  • .NET

• How to get the type of a generic type

  Posted on September 20, 2005

  Type t = typeof(Dictionary<,>); Type t2 = typeof(IList<>); Type at = typeof(Predicate<>); [Read More]

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  • .NET

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