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Oct 10 Fri
What Are .wixlibs and Why Would You Use Them?
Rob Mensching writes "One of the first big changes to WiX v3 was to add the ability for lit.exe to create "binary .wixlib" files which contained the referenced files in a cabinet file prepended to the .wixlib's XML blob. This gave us the best features of both of .wixlib files and Merge Modules, as long as you are using the WiX v3 toolset everywhere..."
Illustrating Standard Deviation and Event-based Programming
Luke Hoban writes "Standard deviation is a pretty straightforward computation with F#. There’s a few ways to write it, but with “average” and “average_by” built-in, they provide a particularly simple option....This is really compelling, because it’s a case where two data sources which are conceptually very similar are often programmed in very different ways..."
How to Create New GUIDs With Two Key Presses in Visual Studio
Wouter van Vugt writes "
...My grievance is that I actually need to start this tool to get a GUID, copy and then paste it...I decided to fix that little error. I first tried to do a macro to copy a new GUID to the clipboard, but macro's don't run STA, so OLE calls to the clipboard failed...First you create a Console Application..."
Hey, Who Took My Chiron?
Tim Heuer writes "Fast forward to release builds for Silverlight 2. No Chiron. Hey, what’s up? Chiron is still available for you if you want it. It is a part of the Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK which is available on Codeplex. So if you need/want it..."
Oct 9 Thu
How to Keep Files From Falling Off the File Tab Channel
Sara Ford writes "
Just found out about this tip the other day. Works for both 2005 and 2008, although I haven’t tested 2005 myself. Warning: To enable this tip, you’ll need to modify your registry settings Follow the instructions below at your own risk."
VB Catch When: Why So Special?
VB Team writes "
The VB Catch syntax has a unique feature: When. It allows users to filter expressions based on something other than their type. Any arbitrary code can enter a When block to decide whether or not to handle an Exception...Newsgroups often ask, "Why's this so special? I could effectively get the same behavior out of C# by doing the following..."
Types of Code Tests to Use While Building Silverlight Applications
Jonas Folleso writes "Automated unit testing of code has become a common development practice, and as developers we have a wide variety of frameworks to pick from to help us do testing. A common misperception is that any test written using a testing framework is a unit test. That is not necessary true...the types of tests I normally write when building Silverlight applications..."
WSCF.Blue Development Opened up For Community
Edward Bakker writes "Christian Weyer just announced that he decided to open up development of his very successful Web Service Contract First (WSCF) tool. The new release, named WSCF.blue, targets WCF and can be found on CodePlex..."
Moving to .NET 3.5? Pick Up the Enhancements Training Kit
David Yack writes "...kit covers a lot of the .NET 3.5 SP1 features but there is also a training kit for .NET 3.5 - If you have new developers moving to .NET 3.5 you might want to check out that training kit here..."
Solution for VS Error - The breakpoint Will Not Currently Be Hit
Guy Barrette writes "
...looks like it is a common problem both with VS 2005 and 2008 however, it was the first time I experienced it...When you look at the Web/WCF breakpoint while debugging, the red dot displays an exclamation mark and this message: "The breakpoint will not currently be hit"...Looks like there are many solutions to the problem. Here’s what I did:"
Code to Configure the BAM WCF Interceptor Programmatically
Jesus Rodriguez writes "...the BAM interceptor functionality is not public and consequently it can’t be added to the service endpoint behaviors collection. The trick to access this endpoint behavior is to invoke the CreateBehavior method of the BAM behavior extension element. The following code illustrates the details...."
Oct 8 Wed
Are You Using Silverlight with Visual Basic?
VB Team writes "...great How-Do-I videos...to get you started! There are four different categories of videos, and they all include Visual Basic code available for download."
Workaround for ReportViewer Bug Affects SQL Server Management Studio and Reporter Utility
PSS SQL Engineers writes "The thread safety issue has been reproduced and Microsoft is investigating a fix. The condition occurs easier on a multi-CPU computer but can happen on a single CPU computer as well..."
Using VSTS Test and Profilers to Troubleshoot a High CPU in GC issue
Tess Ferrandez writes "These are the steps I will go through to narrow down the issue to the string concatenation: 1. Set up a load test for AllProducts.aspx and configure the counter set to include .net and process counters for w3wp.exe 2. Run a sampling performance session to discover that we are spending most of our time in the GC..."
Simple Reflection Based Assignment Using Extension Methods
Tim Rayburn writes "How can I handle assigning objDC from objInternal without writing a line of code (or generating a line of code) for every single property? Enter AssignFrom ... with this code, you'll get something as simple as objDC.AssignFrom(objInternal)..."
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