Getting rid of the annoying Visual Studio XAML editor bugs
Everybody that is doing XAML editing has hit this issue one moment in time – the editor is buggy. First of all – the designer is really useless. Second, if you keep editors open side-by-side you will eventually get a Visual Studio crash. Also from time to time you won’t be able to open the XAML file because apparently it is open but hidden. Finally, I would mention that the XAML editor is a lot slower than the other Visual Studio editors.
For all the issues above, there is a very simple solution which will make your life easier. You just need to right click an XAML file and choose Open With…. In the dialog select Source Code (Text) Editor and make it the default editor. You will get exactly the same features as in the XAML editor (Intellisense etc.), but without the crashes and performance issues.
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Easy creation of code generators in Visual Studio 2008 (part 2 of 4)
May 10, 2010 - 3:40 pm
Posted in .NET, Add-ins, C#, Code generators, Visual Studio | 2 comments
In the first part I’ve written about creating a code generator in VS2008 to eliminate repetitive coding.
The series is divided into four parts:
Part I – creating a Visual Studio Package
Part II (this one) – creating and registering a code generator
Part III – generating code & debugging
Part IV – creating the setup project and deploying the [...]
Easy creation of code generators in Visual Studio 2008
May 7, 2010 - 4:17 pm
Posted in .NET, Add-ins, C#, Code, Code generators, Tools, Visual Studio | 4 comments
I am a big fan of the DRY principle. This means that whenever I can do something that can be reused with minimal or no effort, I try to do it. Recently I’ve started developing a REST framework for our projects, which is not based on WCF (will blog about this too). One of the [...]
Executing actions on the UI thread
November 27, 2009 - 3:22 pm
Posted in .NET, C#, Code | 3 comments
When working with frameworks like Silverlight, WPF or Windows Forms you often encounter the need to ensure a piece of code runs on the UI thread. Below, I present a clean way to do this using the SynchronizationContext class.
The ISynchronized interface
The first thing to do is to make a contract for all classes that need [...]
Useful tools for your development experience
September 6, 2009 - 6:23 pm
Posted in Add-ins, Tools | 4 comments
Recently, Scott Hanselman has released his notorious tools list for 2009 here at http://hanselman.com/tools. I want to amend his list and add some of the tools that I use for day-to-day work.
Windows & multimedia utilities
Here is stuff that I use for normal Windows operations, multimedia etc.
IZarc – I actually like this more than 7zip because [...]
Creating a type-safe implementation of the INotifyPropertyChanged interface
August 17, 2009 - 1:38 pm
Posted in .NET, C#, Code | No comments
When working with Silverlight two-way binding (and not only there) you need to implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface in order to notify any observers that the property values of the object have changed.
The INotifyChangedProperty exposes only the PropertyChanged event which is used by observers to subscribe to the change notifications. The typical pattern is to have [...]