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I thought I'd post this, mainly so I wouldn't have to bother Stuart again. If you have built an MSI and need to verify the contents to ensure that your automated build is functioning correctly and you have WiX installed, simply open up a Command Shell and tap out the following: %WiXDir%\dark.exe -x c:\%OutPutDir% MyInstaller.msi ...

Roy Osherove has been blogging about Generics a few times 1 2 3 this week - which reminded me that I had a post saved in my “Drafts” folder in Outlook that simply said “talk about Generics and Serialization”. One of the main benefits of Generics in .NET 2.0 is the ability to reduce code bloat, whether that manifests itself in ...

The guys at Microsoft Services UK have created a new GDN workspace for the latest incarnation of the SDC Tasks for MSBuild - basically all the tasks that were in the old SDC Build tools have been re-written for MSBuild. There are several other MSBuild Task community efforts going on at the moment - such as the MSBuild Community Tasks Project for ...

In my last post I talked about integrating Simian into Visual Studio - as Mal commented the default output from Simian is not very Visual Studio friendly: Found 6 duplicate lines in the following files: Between lines 163 and 171 in D:\Projects\Conchango\Conchango.Gluon\Conchango.Gluon.Plugins.Interface\ConfigSettings.cs Between lines ...

One of the easiest “code smells” to deodorise is that of ''duplicate code'' - Simian is a Similarity Analyser that detects duplications in source code (C#, C, C++ ASP, XML etc); once detected you can easily locate the duplication and perform an ''Extract Method'' refactor in Visual Studio. Simian is a command line tool - but you can ...

I released the first version of this tool back in April - and have spent a couple of days this week working on a Global List management tool for the Scrum Plug-in - which involved a lot of XmlDocument debugging - so I decided to update the Visualizer so it would work in the RTM version and added some new features too. For those of you who ...

A slick shortcut I stumbled across while doing some hobby coding at the weekend. Add a new type to your class, in the code below it's an interface I want to implement. Place the cursor over word and a little Smart Tag indicator appears: Hit SHIFT-ALT-F10 and the smart tag menu appears with the option to add an import directive for the unknown ...

I've updated my Lithium based XMLVisualizer for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. You can download the updated source from my ProjectDistributor workspace. Updated 06/11/2006: If you are trying to locate the Netron Project see my post "What happened to the Netron Project?"

This post has been superseded by the following post: Conchango Xml Visualizer for Visual Studio 2005 (RTM) Updated 06/11/2006: If you are trying to locate the Netron Project see my post "What happened to the Netron Project?" About a month ago, I stumbled across Scott Nonnenberg's article “Debugger Visualizers on VS 2005 ...

Updated 06/11/2006: If you are trying to locate the Netron Project see my post "What happened to the Netron Project?" Francois has done it again – he’s proved that he’s one of the best open source .NET developers out there, by releasing Lithium – a Tree Diagramming Control – building upon many of the ...