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Satellite assemblies and strong names
I recently had to investigate how to create satellite resource assemblies for assemblies that are strongly named. Some of the information was surprisingly poorly documented, and required some experimentation to figure out, so I'm posting the results in...

Posted Friday, March 17, 2006 7:02 PM by kevindente | 2 comment(s)

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First look at Visual Studio Orcas available for download
Here's one I wasn't expecting - a set of extensions for Visual Studio 2005 that provide some Orcas functionality now (alongh with a December CTP of the WinFX framework). The most interesting part is the WPF designer (code named "Cider"). I'm definitely...

Posted Monday, December 19, 2005 11:04 AM by kevindente | 1 comment(s)

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Tab control with no visible tabs
One of my co-workers wanted to use a Windows Forms (2.0, in this case) TabControl as a way of swapping between sets of controls, but without display the actual tabs (controlling the switching entirely through code - a sort of swappable panel stack). After...

Posted Monday, November 14, 2005 9:19 PM by kevindente | 15 comment(s)

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MSBuild Team releases AssemblyInfoTask
The MSBuild team has released a great new task, the AssemblyInfoTask. This task makes it easy to automatically update the assembly version numbers (both AssemblyVersion and AssemblyFileVersion, as well as other assembly information attributes) as part...

Posted Saturday, November 12, 2005 4:58 PM by kevindente | 2 comment(s)

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Holy smokes, it finally happened - VS2005 on MSDN Subscriber Downloads
That's right, VS2005 has been posted for download. That groaning sound you hear is the MS servers being crushed under the load of too many downloads. So far Pro and Standard versions are up, as well as something called "Team Suite Trial Edition". Huh...

Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 11:17 AM by kevindente | 5 comment(s)

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CruiseControl, MSBuild, and Unit Tests
While converting our continuous integration process from Nant to MSBuild, I ran into a problem with unit tests. The build script runs our unit tests by calling the nunit-console.exe test runner with the Exec task. The tests reside in a number of assemblies...

Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:17 PM by kevindente | 4 comment(s)

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