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

• Search References multi-platform support is forward-compatible

  Posted on August 30, 2010

  Remember when I introduced you to the Search References extension? I know my fellow coworkers at Clarius are awesome and all, but I was happily surprised when after installing MonoDroid, the following just worked: [Read More]

• How to listen to online radios in Android

  Posted on August 29, 2010

  Most online radios stream using ASX and WMA encoding, which doesn’t work in Android phones at all. [Read More]

• Argentina: Fibertel, ilegalidad, discrecionalidad y arbitrariedad

  Posted on August 23, 2010

  [to my English-only dear readers, this is going to be just Spanish, for my compatriots. I hope you don’t mind :)] [Read More]

• Hello World of VS

  Posted on August 20, 2010

  At Clarius we’ve spent years doing Visual Studio extensibility. Literally. We LOVE doing so. We did so much of it during the years that chances are pretty high you’ve been using some of our stuff (fully or partially developed by us) at one point or another. A non-exhaustive list includes: [Read More]

• How to install Visual Studio 2010 Search References and Pro Power Tools side by side

  Posted on June 9, 2010

  The new Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools bring a new Add Reference dialog that completely replaces the classic one when you click the familiar Add Reference command: [Read More]

• Add References with Search

  Posted on June 9, 2010

  If you have been using VS2010 for any significant amount of time, you surely came across the awkward, slow and hard to use Add Reference dialog. Despite some (apparent) improvements over the VS2008 behavior, in its current form it’s even LESS usable than before. A brief non-exhaustive summary of the typical grief with this dialog is: [Read More]

• MEF, IServiceProvider and Testing Visual Studio Extensions

  Posted on June 8, 2010

  In the latest and greatest version of Visual Studio, MEF plays a critical role, one that makes extending VS much more fun than it ever was. [Read More]

• A really simple ViewModel base class with strongly-typed INotifyPropertyChanged

  Posted on May 14, 2010

  I have already written about other alternative ways of implementing INotifyPropertyChanged, as well as augment your view models with a bit of automatic code generation for the same purpose. But for some co-workers, either one seemed a bit too much :o). [Read More]

• Crazy Linq: performing System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations validation in a single statement

  Posted on April 15, 2010

  public static IEnumerable<ValidationResult> Validate(object component) { return from descriptor in TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(component).Cast<PropertyDescriptor>() from validation in descriptor.Attributes.OfType<System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.ValidationAttribute>() where !validation.IsValid(descriptor.GetValue(component)) select new ValidationResult( validation.ErrorMessage ?? string.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture, "{0} validation failed.", validation.GetType().Name), new[] { descriptor.Name }); } [Read More]

• How to merge your referenced assemblies into the output assembly for improved usability

  Posted on March 11, 2010

  Something we’ve been doing in moq since the very beginning is to have a single assembly as output: Moq.dll. This reduces the clutter for users and lets them focus on what they need from our library, rather than getting the noise of whatever third-party (or internal) libraries we use to implement it. [Read More]

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