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Coffee, Code, or Me? by Bil Simser

The gauntlet has been thrown down. It's duelling laptops as John Bristowe and I square off at the Kawa Expresso Bar in Calgary this Friday and bring you the Cowtown version of Coffee and Code (with a little Ultimate Fighter Championship thrown in for...

Setting the Publish Status to Include for 3rd Party Files with XBAP deployments by Bil Simser

I was trying to deploy a new WPF app via XBAP today and we were experiencing an odd deployment error. When we deployed and launched the app we were getting this error: Startup URI: http://localhost/XbapNHibernateDeploymentSpike/XbapNHibernateDeploymentSpike...
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Reintroducing Terrarium, now with 2.0 goodness! by Bil Simser

To skip to the chase… http://www.codeplex.com/terrarium2 Origins A long time ago, on a development team far, far, away, some bright dude (or dudette) came up with the idea of Terrarium. Terrarium was a .NET 1.x game/learning tool that was aimed at getting...

Microsoft StyleCop, Totalitarian Rules by Bil Simser

I got turned onto a fairly new tool by a friend and was interested in checking it out. It's called Microsoft StyleCop and done in the style of FxCop but rather than analyzing assemblies it looks at code for formatting and style rules. The original use...

UI Exception Handling vs. AppDomain Exceptions by Bil Simser

I'm building an uber-exception handling system for all of our apps at work (basically handle unexpected exceptions and post them to out bug tracker, JIRA) and wanted to clear up some confusion on the differences between unhandled exceptions. As an FYI...
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Finding the AJAX Control Toolkit in VS2005 by Bil Simser

This might be old information to some, but I wasn't able to find the answer (very clearly) on the web so here it is. If you're building a new website with Visual Studio 2005 and want to use the AJAX Control Toolkit there are two different variations you...
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Game Studio 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, VisualSVN, and me by Bil Simser

If you're like me and dabble in everything, then you might have Visual Studio 2005 installed along with VisualSVN (a plug-in to integrate Subversion source control access with Visual Studio). The latest version of XNA Game Studio (2.0) now allows you...
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