Test framework and CodeCoverage plugin failure

I just loaded my Visual Studio instance and got the most bizarre test run error. In addition, I found no answers on google. Now that´s surprising! I found the error by pressing the blue link here: Which displayed to me this: Error    2011-06-13 10:20:42    The...

Opening XPS-files

Perhaps nobody uses xps-files? Well, I do. Not because they´re neat or nice or good or anything but because they´re there and Microsoft actually has support for them. I use xps-s for previewing office documents since they can be opened in wpf and Office standard...

JustDecompile vs DotPeek

I recently tried out the JustCompile .Net decompiler from Telerik and I have previously been using both the RedGate Reflector and JetBrains DotPeek. First up, neither DotPeek or JustCompile compares to previously free Reflector but this is mainly because they´re both...

Byte order mark

Ever tried to put together a neat little XML document with the XDocument -class? Its quite nice but when not working together with IO (in other words, not actually writing the XML to disk) you´re sure to experience the BOM. BOM is an abbreviation for Byte Order Mark,...

Subclass type usage

I loves reflection. I loves reflection all day long 🙂 Just now I found another nice usage of the not-even-real-reflection Object.GetType() method. Say we got a framework that works with plugins implementing an abstract class: public abstract class PluginBase { public...

Choose columns to link with SharePoint 2007

I´ve recently poked about a bit with SharePoint 2007. Trying to avoid using the somewhat costly web services (which is also hard to debug and has kinda crappy interfaces) I´ve been using the possibility to link SharePoint lists to Access databases. However, I found it...