Visual Studio 2005 made using embedded resources a much more integrated experience than it was in Visual Studio 2003. But what I didn’t know is that there are some important things to be aware of when referencing these resources. A leaky abstraction strikes again! The Problem Even though it “seems” like a static resource, accessed [...]

This was probably my favorite Visual Studio 2005 tip I learned in the Mastering .NET Debugging class I recently took. John Robbins is awesome. This tip lets you set a breakpoint at any arbitrary location – no source code required! Think framework library, or 3rd party library, or any commonly called code (that you don’t [...]

Our internal custom tracing library was recently updated, and I’ve been working on doing some extensive search-and-replaces to incorporate the changes. At first, I thought I could use Visual Studio to quickly do the bulk of it with it’s handy Find and Replace in Files, even with it’s “bastardized syntax“. But I ran across a [...]

The most useful .NET tool ever created. Ever. For all time. Scott Hanselman has a great rundown of it.

I’ve uploaded some bug-fixed versions of my Lerch.X10 library. Thanks to “Muot” and Shaun for pointing out two AOI (“Areas of Improvement”) — to put it nicely. The first fix was to remove the hard-coded “COM1″ port reference from the controller factory. That’s what happens when I leave in some “test” code. The second fix [...]

A day or so ago I ran across a very frustrating bug that I feel compelled to post here to potentially save someone else the pain I went through. Here’s the scenario: Install one of our legacy Win32 applications Install IE7 Open the help–we use HTML Help (.chm files) Everything’s working great! Accept updates from [...]

In Scott Hanselman’s recent Hanselminutes podcast with Chris Sells, he bemoaned the fact that in .NET you can’t just query the keyboard state to say “is this key pressed right now?” Chris answered that you can do it, but that he’d have to look it up to get the exact reference. I got curious and [...]

I found a few good links from the blogosphere today: A .NET RSS implementation. It may conform to the spec, but I don’t think it’s created to handle reading other people’s crappy (read: incorrect) RSS feeds well. Partake in a WPF contest – Might be a good way to dive in and start learning the [...]

I’m sure that this is a well known resource to all by now, but in case someone out there doesn’t know, IDesign has some fantastic free downloads of code/design samples for C#/WCF.

I’m going to have to set aside some time to read through these articles. The singleton article has been a good reference for me already.