Since I started using the StyleCop for ReSharper add-on I’ve been delving a bit further into the other tools out there for doing code analysis: StyleCop, FxCop, and Visual Studio Code Analysis. Even only considering those three, it’s a bit confusing. This post is my attempt to sort out, for …
Keyboard Shortcuts 1. Ctrl-L to Cut Line to Clipboard It’s not necessary to highlight an entire line and then hit the delete key. Just hit “Ctrl-L” and the line the cursor is currently on will be removed and copied to the clipboard. “Ctrl-x” performs the same operation by default. …
There are at least three different ways to configure the hosting of a WCF Service Application inside a Web Application. They are: Add a WCF Service directly via “Add New Item…” By copying files, including the service implementation code-behind file By copying files, including the compiled, service implementation DLL In …
I’ve been working with WCF lately. One of the immediate points of confusion was which type of project to start out with: WCF Service Application or WCF Service Library. Let’s take a look at each, then examine the differences. Hopefully we can come to some conclusion regarding the time and …
In debugging a fairly simple Silverlight control that calls into a WCF service I ran into an often encountered security exception having to do with cross-domain policy. Silverlight generally does not allow cross domain access unless that access is explicitly granted via a clientaccesspolicy.xml file. Given that I had to …
IExpress is a little known utility that will combine any number of files into a single, self-extracting executable similar to a WinZip self-extracting executable except IExpress comes standard with XP, Vista, and Windows 7 and is therefore free. A tool like this one is especially handy as a standard Visual Studio …
There’s already a lot of posts out there on how to set up ELMAH (see References below). Still, as I went through the process of adding ELMAH to my own site, I found myself pulling information from multiple posts and even ran into a couple of surprises during deployment. So, …
Building on my previous VS2008 Shortcuts post, I thought it’d be a good idea to see what Visual Studio 2010 brings to the keyboard and mouse shortcut arena. While the basis for this list remains those shortcuts outlined in my previous post, I did verify that each of those shortcuts …