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• The Small Things: Asynchronous WCF Calls Without Setting Up Service Reference

  When you are developing both the service and the client it can many times be good to not use the “Add Service Reference” in Visual Studio. Instead the service and data contracts can be defined in a shared class library. There can be many reasons for this, Read More... Posted den 29 januari 2011 13:49 by ericqu | 2 Comments Filed under: Windows Forms, The Small Things, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, Silverlight, .NET 4.0

• The Small Things: Converting a Existing Web Application to a MVC Web Application

  I have an existing web application that contains a couple of WCF services, but today I also wanted to add some pages and decided that I wanted to create them with ASP.NET MVC2. This is the steps I took to get the MVC pages to run just fine in my existing Read More... Posted den 24 november 2010 10:54 by ericqu | 1 Comments Filed under: The Small Things, .NET 4.0

• The Small Things: How to Show the Color Categories in Outlook

  In an add-in for Outlook that I’m developing I wanted to show the built in Color Categories dialog so that the user could choose categories in a familiar way. The categories should be set on an object that is unique for the add-in (aka not for a mail Read More... Posted den 11 augusti 2010 17:26 by ericqu | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, The Small Things, .NET 3.0, Office, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0

• The Small Things: LINQ to SQL Association Doesn’t Generate Code

  I hade a really strange problem with a LINQ to SQL diagram today. I added an association between two classes and everything looked perfectly fine in the designer, but there were no code generated for the association. After some frustrating hours I found Read More... Posted den 1 december 2009 10:40 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: The Small Things, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0

• The Samll Things: Organizing Using Statements and Skipping Interface Member Regions

  David Hayden has a great Visual Studio 2008 tip about how to organize your using statements and a new setting that let you get rid of the region that default is created around interface members. The region has always irretated me and in previous version Read More... Posted den 8 april 2008 20:57 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: The Small Things, .NET 3.5

• The Small Things: Suppress Code Analysis Warnings

  We've been using the static code analysis in Visual Studio in a couple of projects by now, but I have always coded the SuppressMessage attribute myself and totaly missed that it can easily be done by right-clicking on the message. This is great news because Read More... Posted den 29 februari 2008 14:25 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: The Small Things, .NET 3.5

• The Small Things: Serviec Reference Settings

  The other day I discovered a great new feature in Visual Studio 2008 and that was the Advanced button in the "Add Service Reference" dialog. There are some great possibilities in this dialog as for example to control what type of collection Read More... Posted den 22 februari 2008 15:53 by ericqu | 4 Comments Filed under: The Small Things, .NET 3.5

• The Small Things: More Good Artwork

  Microsoft have updated their artwork in Visual Studio 2008. I blogged about it when they finally started to ship some quality icons that we could use in our applications and now they have added more new good looking icons. If you haven't found the image Read More... Posted den 3 februari 2008 17:29 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Forms, The Small Things, .NET 3.5

• Using VS 2008 for .NET 2/3 Projects

  I started to use Visual Studio 2008 for some development when it was released in Beta 2. The projects still targets .NET 2.0 and 3.0, but one nice thing with using VS 2008 is that it is possible to use some of the new compiler goodies. For example there Read More... Posted den 29 oktober 2007 15:29 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, The Small Things, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5

• The Small Things: Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)

  First time I heard about XAML (pronounced "Zammel") was when I first heard about Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Then I also heard about it when Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) entered the scene at the PDC 05. I never understood how XAML was related Read More... Posted den 2 juni 2007 00:00 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: The Small Things, .NET 3.0

• The Small Things: XmlSerializer

  The XmlSerializer has some minor, but great new features. A while ago I blogged about how it is possible to affect serialization by creating a class that inherits from SchemaImporterExtension. Another useful feature is the possibility to create an XML Read More... Posted den 25 oktober 2006 09:06 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, The Small Things

• The Small Things: SchemaImporterExtension

  In .NET 2.0 there is a great extensibility point for the wsdl.exe and xsd.exe called schema importer extension. By writing a class that inherits from SchemaImporterExtension and overrides the ImportSchemaType, you can affect how the tools generates the Read More... Posted den 10 oktober 2006 13:47 by ericqu | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, The Small Things

• The Small Things: configSource Attribute

  Back in 1.0 and 1.1 of .NET Framework there was support for having the appSettings configuration in an external file by specifying the file attribute. This was a great feature during development, because it allows each developer to have it's own configuration, Read More... Posted den 27 maj 2006 08:40 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET 2.0, The Small Things

• The Small Things: The Immediate Window

  I have seen a lot of developer that only uses the Command Window in debugging to evaluate expressions and variables. The Command Window is somewhat limited in it's feature set for debugging purposes and the Immediate Window is more powerful. You can easily Read More... Posted den 14 februari 2006 09:08 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: The Small Things

• The Small Things: The New Project File Format

  When upgrading from VS .NET 2003 to VS .NET 2005 the project files get changed, which all of you who have upgraded probably have noticed. VS 2003 will not be able to open VS 2005 project files (at least not VB and C#). What is really cool about the new Read More... Posted den 25 januari 2006 09:32 by ericqu | (Comments Off) Filed under: .NET 2.0, The Small Things