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

• Simplified INotifyPropertyChanged Implementation with WeakReference Support and Typed Property Access API

  Posted on March 8, 2010

  I’ve grown a bit tired of implementing INotifyPropertyChanged. I’ve tried ways to improve it before (like this “ViewModel” custom tool which even generates strong-typed event accessors). [Read More]

• How to set the startup program for debugging a project for the entire team

  Posted on March 5, 2010

  You surely have set the startup application for a project countless times: [Read More]

• How to install Reactive Extensions for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 on VS2010 RC

  Posted on March 2, 2010

  Get the .NET 4.0 Beta 2 download from MSDN. Open the downloaded .exe with 7zip (i.e. right-click on file, select 7-Zip > Open Archive) Navigate to the .rsrc\RCDATA\ “folder” and open the CABINET file: [Read More]

• Software Development Productivity

  Posted on February 8, 2010

  Scott Bellware has an interesting series of posts where he discusses how to get back to productive development teams. As usual in his writing (IMO), in a rather verbose way he brings up quite a few good points. Please go ahead and read them. He links from the first entry to the next so you can follow the flow. [Read More]

• How to transform old properties to automatic properties with a simple search and replace

  Posted on January 12, 2010

  Say you have a (typically autogenerated) class with properties like: public partial class Project : IExtensibleDataObject { public System.Runtime.Serialization.ExtensionDataObject ExtensionData { get { return this.extensionDataField; } set { this.extensionDataField = value; } } [Read More]

• How to get out of the GAC all the registered assemblies

  Posted on January 8, 2010

  You know how annoying the GAC shell extension makes it to access the actual assemblies: [Read More]

• Why Windows Media Center is dead

  Posted on January 3, 2010

  Windows Media Center (WMC) is based on a relatively simple (albeit awfully implemented) principle: you have ONE “server” PC holding and running your media, and then you associate any number of Media Center Extenders to it that are typically (except for the XBox 360) single-purpose devices that can only act as such and are fancy and silent enough to deserve a place in your living room. [Read More]

• Resetting Visual Studio Experimental Instance to its super-clean initial state

  Posted on December 22, 2009

  If you are doing Visual Studio extensibility (VSX) work, you are probably aware of the existence of the Visual Studio “Experimental” instance. This is basically an instance of VS that has its own isolated registry, settings, extensions, etc. This allows you to test your extensions to VS without polluting your main development environment. [Read More]

• How to mock extension methods

  Posted on December 22, 2009

  . without paying for a TypeMock Isolator license to do it ;-) [Read More]

• Clarius Visual T4 70% off!

  Posted on November 30, 2009

  http://twitter.com/vga/status/6204238634 [Read More]

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