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WPF Beta 2 Bug: Image.Source cannot handle mapped drive path

31 May 2006

I’m basically going to explode if I don’t get this out soon; I’ve been sitting on this since the weekend. I’d prefer to enter this in the MSDN product feedback center and then link to it from my blog, but, alas, the Beta 2 version is not entered in the Version field of the bug [...] Read more »

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ReSharper 2.0 syntax highlighting problem isn’t a problem

23 May 2006

I posted yesterday about ReSharper 2.0 shipping.
All through the beta I was having trouble with the syntax highlighting, both in VS 2003 and 2005. I thought it was a beta problem and it would be fixed by the production release.
It wasn’t.
Turns out it’s not a bug, the feature is just off by default. To turn [...] Read more »

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ReSharper 2.0 is here!

22 May 2006

Super awesome: my favourite Visual Studio Add-in has just been upgraded.
I’ve been waiting a while for this release. The beta, which I’ve been using for the past few weeks, was showing a little roughness. Hopefully, they got rid of that. I’ve been pining for a few refactorings that they have in this release: push member up/pull [...] 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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WinForms Weirdness – ToolStripDropDownItem.DropDownOpening not raised in a timely manner.

14 April 2006

I’m working on a little project to learn the ins & outs of Winforms 2.0, and I’ll be posting in the near future (well, I think I’ll be posting stuff in the near future) on the surprises and gotchas I encountered; oh, and the cool stuff, too.
The first surprise, and coolness, is with the new MenuStrip [...] Read more »

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