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If you set up a Console Project in Visual Studio 2010, please be aware of some pitfalls newly introduced in our favourite IDE: http://realfiction.net/go/167

If you’ve played around with Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (RC), you sure have noticed that it’s pretty fast. E.g. the WPF- and Silverlight-Designers come up quickly and much faster that in Visual Studio 2008. But for now there are some reasons to wait before installing Visual Studio 2010 RC:...

Yesterday Visual Studio 2010 RC was released to MSDN Subscribers (find the link here), tomorrow it’s available for download for everyone. The performance is great as far as I can say by using it for at least one day. But it lacks on support for Silverlight 4 Beta. If you’re developing Silverlight 4 applications...

The launch date for Visual Studio 2010 RTM is the 12th of April. This month there’ll be a Release Candidate (RC) and Scott Guthrie mentioned on his blog in a post about ASP.NET MVC 2 RC that it will be available soon. Now everybody speculates about the date and what “soon” means. Days or weeks? The ...

Here is a great tutorial on how to create a 3D Tag Cloud with Silverlight. I combined it with a little routine (some regEx, too) that scrapes Links from a web page . How do you like it ? The only thing that holds me back from putting it on the front page of our site is the quite extreme CPU consumption...

Yesterday I thought that it would be a good idea to check out ASP.NET MVC (MVC) on my "on-the-edge" rig with Visual Studio 2010 running on Windows 7. It shouldn't have surprised me then, that ASP.NET MVC support is currently unavailable for this combination. According to Phil Haack it...

Share ConnectionStrings A customer of mine have a Visual Studio C# solution with more than one project which uses the same ConnectionString. So how can you define your ConnectionString(s) once and share them between projects? This is how my sample solution looks like. The "Console" and "ServerConsole"...

Project references Consider the following situation: You want to test an application that uses plugins. The dependencies look as such: read more

In my first post on csproj-fun I had an example where after every build, the resulting assemblies lying in e.g. bin/debug would be merged into one and copied out to some other place. Maybe you do not want this every time yoyu rebuild your project, but you'd rather want to trigger it at will. The...