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How to Save XAML as an Image

2 September 2008

Here’s a quick note to self that you may enjoy. I suck at art. Didn’t use to always, but it requires too much brain power. But I’m not bad at getting WPF to draw what I want. I had a logo in mind for this site and used WPF to generate it after unsuccessfully getting [...] Read more »

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Setting Up A Symbol Server in Visual Studio 2005

14 May 2006

Through a serendipitous series of links on the ol’ intarweb, I came upon this excellent post by the always excellent Jessica (aka JFo) on setting up a symbol server in Visual Studio 2003. A symbol server allows you to debug code to which you don’t own the source. I knew you could do this, but [...] Read more »

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Hey, Where did my Visual Studio Add-In Go? I know I Installed it.

9 April 2006

I recently installed the 2005 version of the excellent CopySourceAsHtml Visual Studio Add-in. Then I started up an instance of the IDE, opened a project and …couldn’t find the right click option to copy as HTML. So then I went to Tools -> Add-In Manager and it’s blank! WTF? This is weird. I know I [...] Read more »

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Writing Your Own UriParser Part 2: Implementing GetComponents

9 April 2006

In my last article on UriParser, I explained how to register your custom parser as well as outline the pitfalls you may encounter along the way. The documentation is sparse when it comes to UriParser and its descendents. This time I’ll start writing my own custom parser and explain the details of UriParser.GetComponents(), a virtual [...] Read more »

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Loading Visual Studio 2005\.NET 2.0 SDK Tools (vsvars32.bat) in Monad (MSH)

31 March 2006

Scott Hanselman’s recent zeal for MSH has motivated me to take another look at Monad.
I saw the original Jeffrey Snover Channel 9 video and downloaded the beta then; he just about drop kicks you with his enthusiasm, so I had to try it. My first two co-op terms (internships is another term) were spent as [...] Read more »

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