October 2008
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Visual Studio Tips & Tricks
Stephen Walther recently blogged about tricks that every developer should know about Visual Studio. Most of those he mentioned I use on a daily basis, so I highly recommend them. It actually surprises me how many other programmers don’t know about those features. Somehow, most programmers know Visual Studio as much as they know Microsoft [...]
IronCow and the design for testability
IronCow is a library that wraps the Remember The Milk (RTM) web services. The “upper layer” of the IronCow API is an object model that stays in sync with the server and is designed with data binding in mind.
Of course, one of the things that went into IronCow’s design was testability. IronCow ships with a [...]
Fixing a bug can cause bugs
Microsoft apparently fixed something in .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 that previously didn’t work, or somehow worked differently. As a result, Milkify will crash if used on a machine that doesn’t have this service pack installed.
What you get is a XamlParseException that says that a ContentStringFormat property cannot be converted into a TemplateBindingExtension. This [...]