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Monday, October 12, 2009 12:48 PM

Saving images (.bmp, .png, etc) in WPF/Silverlight

I’ve recently added a new feature to Live Geometry that allows users to save the current drawing as a bitmap or a .png file. Just push the save button and pick the desired image format in the Save dialog: Fortunately, both WPF and Silverlight support
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 11:30 PM

Dump Environment Folder Paths

This is just a quick snippet to dump the value of Environment.GetFolderPath for all special folders on a machine (so I don’t have to write it again next time): public static string DumpEnvironmentPaths() { var paths = Enum .GetValues( typeof ( Environment
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 2:10 PM

Tip: Don’t enter your CodePlex credentials every time

I just ran across an awesome tip at Scott’s blog that is going to save me a whole lot of time: Save Your Codeplex Repository Credentials I was entering my username and password everytime I connected to a CodePlex TFS server. Now I don’t have to! P.S.
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Sunday, August 09, 2009 11:18 PM

Visual Studio disappears when creating a Silverlight 3 Application

I have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Silverlight 3 tools on the laptop I’m writing this post on. Ten minutes ago I was trying to create a new Silverlight 3 application through the New Project Dialog and after creating the project Visual Studio just disappeared
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Monday, June 22, 2009 11:55 AM

Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 + TFS + HTTPS (TF31001): The ServicePointManager does not support proxies with the https scheme.

This is just a little note to myself and others who might run into this. I was using Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Client to access a CodePlex project over HTTPS (port 443), and got this error message: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual
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Friday, April 10, 2009 5:38 PM

Remote Desktop: /span across multiple monitors

I spent some time searching the web about Remote Desktop, fullscreen and multiple monitors, so I decided to write down my findings to avoid having to search for them again. /span for multiple monitors If you pass /span to mstsc.exe, the target session’s
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 1:07 PM

A common globalization bug

I’ve just found and fixed a globalization bug in our test infrastructure where a feature of our testcase management system (resetting a testcase to re-run on a lab machine) just wouldn’t work on a Russian OS. Fortunately, the call stack was easy to investigate:
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Monday, February 23, 2009 3:12 PM

Making the XAML editor fast

If you use WPF/Silverlight and prefer working with XAML only (i.e. no visual designer), you can significantly, I repeat, significantly speed-up the XAML editor. Check out this tip from Fabrice Marguerie : Life changer XAML tip for Visual Studio
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:51 PM

How to disable optimizations during debugging

Sooner or later you may run into a situation where you need to evaluate a local variable under debugger and all you get is this: "Cannot obtain value of local or argument 'whatever' as it is not available at this instruction pointer, possibly because
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 4:53 PM

Kirill's Visual Studio Tips

I decided to compile a small list of Visual Studio features that I use a lot. Code Editor Code Snippets for ‘prop’, ‘foreach’, ‘if’, ‘class’, ‘interface’, Tab-Tab completion Surround with (snippets) - try, if Ctrl+K,D – FormatDocument Ctrl+Left/Right
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:12 PM

How to determine the .NET installation directory and CLR version

I recently discovered the System.Runtime.InteropServices. RuntimeEnvironment class, especially RuntimeEnvironment.GetRuntimeDirectory(). Also, RuntimeEnvironment.GetSystemVersion() gets the version of the CLR that is running the current process.
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:34 PM

Coding productivity: macros, shortcuts and snippets

Visual Studio macros are a fantastic productivity booster, which is often under-estimated. It's so easy to record a macro for your repetitive action and then just play it back. Even better, map a macro to a keyboard shortcut. I'll share a couple of examples.
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