I’ll probably need to do this again one day, so I want to record how I did it…and it might help someone… I wanted to check whether an absolute or relative file path was saved for a particular thing in the .SOU file. But, Notepad displays garbage when you force it to open a .SOU file. Instead I opened another copy of Visual Studio 2010 (not a copy where this solution was open, tried that, it didn’t work). I created a new solution folder, and dragged the .SOU file into it. I could not drag it onto

Iris Classon is asking and finding answers for “stupid” questions on her blog. First of all, they are definitely not stupid questions. There are a lot of nuances of .NET that slip out of our daily thinking. When I first started my Getting Geeky with the .NET Framework series I’d ask really hot coders basic questions – things that affect how code runs – and the results were not stellar. So, first, three cheers for Iris’s project. Today’s question was “How

Since Microsoft scheduled Build on top of DevConnections, I’ve had people ask which conference they should go to. I’ll start by admitting my bias. I haven’t missed speaking at a major DevConnections show for six or seven years, and if you come to DevConnections, you can come see my talks! But biased or not, I think the DevConnections/Build decision is a no-brainer…they are very different events. This is a quick list off the top of my head with no discussion with any marketing people at either event

I haven’t been able to follow up on the fire, because it’s been too hard to catch it. From my near hysteria on the phone with a friend the first day when I was watching the plume and knowing my sister would be out there with it. To the shock of seeing the fire walking down the hill to my Colorado home. To what it means to be evacuated. To listening in on emergency services to hear Carol’s voice and know she was OK. To hearing the radio traffic as Poudre Fire Authority fought for Don’s. To be guessing

This post is updated due to the STUPID error I originally made in the last code sample. Thanks to the folks that pointed it out! Also, I neglected to thank Adil Mughal for grabbing the ReSharper warnng text for me. There’s a breaking change you should know about in Visual Studio 2012. In case you have a short attention span, aka have a life, I’ll give you the punch line first. The behavior of closures has changed in the specific instance of a lambda expression. Good news: You aren’t

I told some folks at the East Tennessee .NET UG (ETNUG, which was adorably put on the reservation board at the after meeting bar as “Eatnug”) meeting in Knoxville that I would post info on a .NET 4.5 version of INotifyPropertyChanged that used CallerMemberName. I also said I wanted to reference other people rather than making up on my own because I’d rather post something already vetted. CallerMemberName is a new feature of .NET 4.5 that lets you access the name of the thing that

Here are the slides from my Colorado Springs talk - Visual Studio Tips and Tricks. [View:http://msmvps.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/kathleen/1122.Dollard-Visual-Studio-Tips.pdf:550:0]

I had a conversation with Stephen Toub, Peter Ritchie and Kevin Hazzard about the different between the TaskCancelledException and the OperationCancelledException. It turns out not to be a big difference, but some understanding might keep you out of a bit of trouble. TaskCancelledException derives from OperationCancelledException. TaskCancelledException contains a property for the cancelled task. If you’re catching exceptions, you probably want to catch both exceptions. If you don’t care about the

I believe project Roslyn is a watershed moment. It will start a complete redefinition of what programming and being a computer programmer means. But why? How could rewriting the Visual Basic and C# compilers be even a blip in the history of computer programming? At best it’s a sneeze! Show me a computer program. Right now. Really. At least think through how you would show me. OK, you just opened up an instance of Visual Studio and showed me Solution Explorer graph of a whole bunch of files

Summary : Windows 8 is a massive gamble for Microsoft, and right now I can see the potential for it to be one of the most successful operating system releases ever. A friend of mine pointed me to this article by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes. He points out some issues about Windows 8 and comes to the summary: “ Windows 8 is a massive gamble for Microsoft, and right now I can see the potential for it to fail harder than Windows Vista did.” He’s right. It might fail massively. Vista was