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For those who like me didn’t know about this hidden gem: You can now set Tracepoints instead of just Breakpoints in VS2008. Here’s the difference between the two as described on MSDN: “Breakpoints tell the debugger that an application should break, pause execution, at a certain point. When a break occurs, your program and the ...

A colleague of mine this week showed me his code coverage as being over 94% for his production code, which impressed me so much, it spurred me on to ensure that all code paths in my code from now on go blue instead of red when testing with Team coverage, using the Test driven .NET addin for visual studio 2008. Not sure what I'm on about, then ...

Symptom  Aspnet_compiler.exe fails to produce any content apart from the PreCompiledApp.config and the Bin folder. Reason  When you save a solution containing a web project (file based), it sets the physical path property Debug.AspNetCompiler.PhysicalPath for the aspnet_compiler. If you then subsequently save your ...

In order to pass Enum values around to your WCF service operations, then you must put [ServiceKnownType(typeof(Enum))] attribute on the service interface contract, and also add the [EnumMember] attribute to every enum value within your Enumeration data contract.Service contract looks like this...namespace ...

In Visual Studio, you can use the find and replace utitlity in regular expression mode, with the expressions below to turn code such as this...        [System.Runtime.Serialization.DataMemberAttribute(EmitDefaultValue = false, Order = 0)]         public ...