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Please update your bookmarks, because the new url of this blog is http://khason.net/ (you have not update RSS feeds, it will be done automatically). Why I did it? Why I decided to go to “stand-alone”… Well. there are some reasons. Generally, I do not want to explain all those here, but trust me, there are some. The main reason is, that there is no responsible person in charge for this blog platform in Microsoft Israel. This why, if your blog is popular and you have a respect to your blog visitors...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/visual-studio-snippet-designer/ ] Chicks love CodePlex as well as Microsoft loves it too and today they release extremely useful tool, that was internal for more, then three years. It named: “ Visual Studio Snippet Designer ”. As you can, probably, understand. This tools is used to create and manage VS time savers - snippet files (introduced in VS2005) This is great tool, that will help...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/quick-wpf-tip-how-to-bind-to-wpf-application-resources-and-settings/ ] You, probable know, that you can save application resources and settings within handy classes Settings and Properties, provided by Visual Studio code generator. Just put your values, set the usage scope and all you have to do is to save it upon request. This feature is really useful and great time saver. But how to...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/building-custom-user-control-in-silverlight-20-how-to-build-code-snippet-for-vs-as-bonus/ ] Do you remember, that we have "go-live" for Silverlight 2.0 and already have build machines configured ? Now it's time to build your very own custom control. Today, we'll build Range Slider. What is range slider? Range slider is a control, that lets you input two values, typically...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/msbuild-tasks-for-build-machines-for-wpf-and-silverlight/ ] Silverlight got go-life, so we should start preparing automatic build machines for new Silverlight projects. Actually, it is not too complicated, however, there are some new tasks should be taken into account. Output type of any Silverlight application is Library New XML node specializing the output type of the library: SilverlightApplication...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/how-to-merge-help-files-to-appear-inside-visual-studio/ ] How many times after an installation of some SDK, you saw, that nothing has been merged into Visual Studio help. You press F1 and nothing happens? What to do? Actually, the answer is really stupid. You should go into Visual Studio Documentation (Programs->Visual Studio [number]->Visual Studio [number] documentation), go to...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/visual-studio-2008-new-test-features/ ] Referring my disappointment from the topics on 70-552 , I start looking on new test features, provider by Visual Studio 2008. I worked with performance analyzer in VS2005 (which is looked much more like debug tools for .NET CLR developers in MS) and today, after public release of VS2008 , I can show you my research. From the first sight, it looks...
[This blog was migrated. You will not be able to comment here. The new URL of this post is http://khason.net/blog/adding-web-references-to-your-vs-project-by-code/ ] Today one of my clients asked me to find a way to add web references to existing VS project without using Visual Studio wizard, to do it by code. I built VS add-ins before, so I know what Studio can do, but the question is if I can replace existing system dialogs, without writing a lot of code (I'm really lazy, if I'll write...