Disable Attach Security Warning

July 19, 2010 09:14 by The Geek

I started getting an annoying message when debugging IIS on Windows 7 / Visual Studio 2010: Title: Attach Security Warning Message: Attaching to this process can potentially harm your computer. If the information below looks suspicious or you are unsure, do not attach to this process. ... [More]

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Tags: warning, iis, vs, security
Categories: Web
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Silverlight DataTemplateSelector

September 11, 2009 19:03 by The Geek

You may or may not be aware that WPF supports System.Windows.Controls.DataTemplateSelectors. As the documentation says, this class provides a way to choose a DataTemplate based on the object that it is bound to. This is really useful behaviour, even though it may not be a daily task.&nbs... [More]

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Another LINQ Test

September 7, 2009 18:23 by The Geek

Yes, this has been discussed quite a bit but I wanted to do a quick test on LINQ code performance. More...

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Tags: linq, foreach, predicate, iqueryprovider, iqueryable
Categories: C#
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At last - multiple monitor support in VS

September 3, 2009 19:14 by The Geek

At long last - VS2010 properly supports multiple monitors. See ScottGu's post.

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Coding Style (The Law)

September 3, 2009 18:29 by The Geek

There are loads of arguments on the web about how you should style your code. These are my preferences, you can think of them as the law . Use StyleCop. This is an absolute no-brainer. If you live in the Microsoft world, then you should use this. Yes, it is onl... [More]

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Tags: code, style, source analysis
Categories: C# | Visual Studio
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Warning About Warnings

July 7, 2009 19:28 by The Geek

Saw this a couple of minutes ago... "Professionals treat all warnings as errors. Amateurs ignore warnings. Idiots suppress warnings." It's brilliant! It was posted by JD on TDWTF.

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Tags: warnings, code
Categories: C#
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LOB Presentation Layer

February 21, 2009 15:00 by The Geek

I have recently been experimenting with different options with a view to finding "The Best" thing for implementing line of business applications. As you probably know, there are many ways of achieving any one goal - choosing one option will often solve most, but not all of the prob... [More]

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Visual Studio Guidelines / Column lines (Updated)

February 21, 2009 14:49 by The Geek

I ran into this a while ago so I thought I would post it here too. Add a new string value named "Guides" to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Text Editor. Set the value to "RGB(128,0,0) 100" and you get a nice red vertical line after column 100. Update: THis funct... [More]

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Tags: ide
Categories: Visual Studio
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Have You Joined The Dark Side?

November 26, 2008 18:58 by The Geek

I've been really busy with work recently - so lots of things to post about and no time to post! Well there is something really important ;-) In case you didn't know, you can apply themes to Visual Studio - well the best one is available here: The Dark Side (instructions a... [More]

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Tags: themes, visual studio, vs2008
Categories: C# | Visual Studio
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Constant Network Traffic (Vista and Folder Redirection)

August 18, 2008 12:34 by The Geek

I have had constant network traffic and svchost using high amounts of CPU time ever since I installed SP1 on my Vista machines. I ignored it for a while (hoping that it would go away ;-)) - unfortunately it didn't. I used Microsoft Network Monitor v3.1 to view the network traffic -... [More]

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Tags: folder redirection, network traffic
Categories: Windows
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Disable Attach Security Warning

Silverlight DataTemplateSelector

Another LINQ Test

At last - multiple monitor support in VS

Coding Style (The Law)

Warning About Warnings

LOB Presentation Layer

Visual Studio Guidelines / Column lines (Updated)

Have You Joined The Dark Side?

Constant Network Traffic (Vista and Folder Redirection)

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