Sharing configuration files between multiple projects in Visual Studio is a simple task, but it is not intuitive in how it is done.  In fact, until recently I did not know how to do it via the IDE, I would always hand edit the .sln file to enable this feature (sad I know).  Today I thought...

Just wanted to dump a quick how-to on doing branch to trunk merges in VS Team. It is pretty simple really, only a few steps. Pull the latest of the branch to your local disk Pull the latest of the trunk to your local disk Merge and Pray (more on this at a later date) Yea sounds pretty easy right.......

So, you wanna know how good or bad your application really is?  Setup your IDE to break on all thrown exceptions.  This will really let you know how good or bad your application is.  This is also great way to find a pesky unhandled exception. To tell your IDE to break on thrown exceptions...

As you may have heard, Microsoft has released the .Net framework source to the world.  No, you cannot make changes or additions, in fact it is being released under the Microsoft Reference License .  If you would like more information about the release of the source, check out Scott Guthrie's...

Anyone who has coded with me knows that I am pretty anal about code layout and #regions in my class files (Lou, Ken I am sure you will attest to that). I like to have my code organized so that I can quickly find stuff later and I think #regions are the greatest thing since sliced bread to archive this...

I just came across a great blog entry that compares the different attributes in both MSTest and NUnit. In this post the author also talks about some of the differences between MSTest and NUnit. This is a great post, just wish I would have stumbled across this a few months ago when I was converting my...

[NOTE: Before you read this, please understand I am a WinForms developer so I can only tell you that I know the code in this article works on WinForms. I assume it will work for WebForms, but not sure.] How many times have you been working on a WinForms app writing some logic in the form to handle events...