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This afternoon my computer decided it had done enough for me and tried stopping me from compiling the prismcontrib project. I have signed the prismAg assemblies for an experiment I will be posting about this week, but for some weird reason I got an access denied error when I tried rebuilding the solution from the console. It turns out I am not ...

It’s the little things that make working with .NET fun. Especially the sometimes not so useful documentation or classes you never knew existed. I was surprised  to discover that Microsoft has a TypeForwardedTo attribute to indicate that a type has moved from one assembly to a new assembly. Read all about it here: ...

Please don't start e-mailing me that I am wrong here, for the most part .NET is a great framework and it contains a lot of useful components. Except for the GridTablesFactory class. I have no idea what it does and appearantly Microsoft isn't so sure either.

Running ASP.NET websites from the GAC was always something I wanted to try out, because with 40 websites running exactly the same code there must be a better way to deploy them. So last week I tried it out and to my surprise it worked right away. Here’s how to do it with your own websites Step 1: Sign the website assembly Before you can place ...

Currently I’m in the final stages of completing development on a new Polaris tool. One of things that still needs to be done is checking for any violations of FxCop rules. While most rules are pretty clear to me, others still require a read-up in the documentation. I’m still stuck with FxCop 1.32 and so I can’t really use the links that are ...

In this third part I'm going to show a demo of a powershell provider I created in dead moment on a Thursday evening (grin). This post is part of a series consisting of currently four parts (not all published, but that doesn't matter). The first two parts can be found here: Part 1 – Introduction to PowerShell customization Part ...

This is the second part of the series on customizing Windows PowerShell. This time I'm going to explain how to create your own commandlets. Commandlets are a very powerful way to extend the functionality of Windows PowerShell, it's also one of the most common scenario's people will use for extending PowerShell. Commandlet basics Every non-system ...

9 April A colleague and I held a presentation about Windows PowerShell. We discussed how to use it and how you can customize PowerShell. I didn’t quite have enough time to explain the whole deal on customization, so I’m going to do that in a series of posts. The preliminary table of contents for the series looks like this: Part ...

Introduction WPF offers some rather good stuff when it comes to applying validation to binding expressions. However it isn't complete in my opinion and could use some kind of extension to make it even easier and more effective to use in an application. There are a couple of things I noticed when working with validation in WPF: It is not ...

Don't you just hate the fact that only some collection classes provide a possibility too add more than one item at once (such as List<T> does offer via AddRange). This means that often I'm writing this kind of code:var q = <some cool linq query>; foreach(var i in q) {    someCollection.Add(i); }So I decided to ...