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How to merge your referenced assemblies into the output assembly for improved usability
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Something we've been doing in moq since the very beginning is to have a single assembly as output: Moq.dll. This reduces the clutter for users and lets them focus on what they need from our library, rather than getting the noise of whatever third-party (or internal) libraries we use to implement it.
This is good from the deployment point of view too, and if all your libraries are actually internal infrastructure assemblies, you can even make them all internal types of your output assembly....
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Simplified INotifyPropertyChanged Implementation with WeakReference Support and Typed Property Access API
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I've grown a bit tired of implementing INotifyPropertyChanged. I've tried ways to improve it before (like this "ViewModel" custom tool which even generates strong-typed event accessors).
But my fellow Clarius teammate Mariano thought it was overkill and didn't like that tool much. He mentioned an alternative approach also, which I didn't like too much because it relied on the consumer changing his typical interaction with the object events, but also because it has a substantial design flaw that causes handlers not to be called at all after a garbage collection happens. A very simple unit test will showcase this bug....
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How to set the startup program for debugging a project for the entire team
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You surely have set the startup application for a project countless times:
But that setting goes your user options file, the rest of the team doesn't get to reuse the setting. And what if you repave your machine or start working on a new virtual machine and just got the sources from source control? You have to re-set this value again and again.
Turns out that this setting goes to a file named after your project file plus the ".user" extension. This file is just a fragment of an MSBuild file, and would look something like:...
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How to install Reactive Extensions for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 on VS2010 RC
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- Get the .NET 4.0 Beta 2 download from MSDN.
- Open the downloaded .exe with 7zip (i.e. right-click on file, select 7-Zip > Open Archive)
- Navigate to the .rsrc\RCDATA\ "folder" and open the CABINET file:
- Extract the contained MSI, install and enjoy!
I thought I'd need to crack the MSI open with the good old Orca tool, but turns out I didn't have to!
Stay tuned, my Reactive Framework Extensions Generator...
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How to quickly setup the best free Diff/Merge tool with VS 2010
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First go get the tool. It's free and it rocks.
Next, save this XML to a file with a .vssettings extension:
<UserSettings>
<ApplicationIdentity version="10.0"/>
<Category name="Source Control_TeamFoundation" Category="{2A718788-A6D9-44C5-90EF-438BF5B06A74}" Package="{4CA58AB2-18FA-4F8D-95D4-32DDF27D184C}" RegisteredName="Source Control_TeamFoundation" PackageName="Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.HatPackage, Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.VersionControl, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a">
<PropertyValue name="UserTool1" extension=".*" operation="Compare" command="C:\Program Files (x86)\SourceGear\DiffMerge\DiffMerge.exe" arguments="/title1=%6 /title2=%7 %1 %2"/>
<PropertyValue name="UserTool2" extension=".*" operation="Merge" command="C:\Program Files (x86)\SourceGear\DiffMerge\DiffMerge.exe" arguments="/title1=%6 /title2=%8 /title3=%7 /result=%4 %1 %3 %2"/>
</Category>
</UserSettings>
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