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How to use T4 templates in WP7, Silverlight, Desktop or even MonoDroid apps
In other words, how to use T4 templates without ANY runtime dependencies? Yes, it is possible, and quite simple and elegant actually. In a desktop project, just open the Add New Item dialog, and search for "text template": From the two available...

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How to inspect a type inheritance tree properly
You might think this is a trivial thing, with Type.BaseType and Type.GetInterfaces already there. But there's catch: the GetInterfaces method will give you all the implemented interfaces by the concrete type, as well as all its base types, as well as...

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Team and OS resilient assembly references for Visual Studio Extensibility development
If you just go and use the VS Add Reference dialog to pick assemblies from the PublicAssemblies or PrivateAssemblies or the Visual Studio SDK installation folder, you will end up with references that will have relative or absolute hint paths pointing...

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The future of video conferencing is NOT a webcam and a TV, it's 3D augmented reality, and it could happen really soon
I just have to get this out of my head so I can say the idea was mine :) (ok, maybe someone else has already thought about this, but I haven't read any major brands announcing anything). A webcam and a TV for video conferencing has to be one of the most...

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How to remove all useless new lines in automatic properties in an entire solution
Say you have someone on the team that for whatever reason keeps changing back the corresponding VS settings (or even worse, wasting keystrokes) and formats automatic properties like so: public string Foo { get; private set; } Say you got tired of freakin...

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Old style imperative mocks vs moq functional specifications
Here's a fairly complex object graph that needs to be setup as part of a unit test, as done in "traditional" moq : var el1 = new Mock<IElementInfo>(); el1.Setup(x => x.Id).Returns(Guid.NewGuid()); el1.Setup(x => x...

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Keeping lists of frequently used assembly references
This idea had been on our heads for quite a while. Just to make sure it wasn’t just us who thought it was a cool idea, we posted it on the Extension Ideas forum and it rather quickly made it to the top 10. You can go straight to the bits and/or keep reading...

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How to add Twitter support to UserVoice using Yahoo Pipes and FeedBurner
For our recent launch of World of VS , we used UserVoice to provide users with a way to suggest ' What should be the next super cool extension ' (and win a full MSDN Universal subscription in the process!). But UserVoice does not provide a way to automatically...

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Search References multi-platform support is forward-compatible
Remember when I introduced you to the Search References extension ? I know my fellow coworkers at Clarius are awesome and all, but I was happily surprised when after installing MonoDroid, the following just worked: See the "Filtered to: MonoDroid...

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How to listen to online radios in Android
Most online radios stream using ASX and WMA encoding, which doesn't work in Android phones at all. I was even going to go for a homebrew "server" using VLC which can transcode. But that would mean I need to keep a machine up all the time, take...

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