This is a somewhat made-up scenario based on a recent project. My client has not given me permission to discuss the specifics of the application (yet), so I apologize for keeping it vague. I hope you don't give up before the payoff. The Problem Imagine an application, where a user can create "styles"...

I'm currently writing the chapter about control templates in our WPF book , and I wanted to include a list of all of the named parts that are hidden away in the dark recesses of the various controls. Before I even started googling, I had an idea that I thought I'd share. For those of you not...

I've been burned by a few bugs recently due to swallowed exceptions. In case you don't know, empty catch blocks will hurt you. Really, they will. I wanted a way to locate all of the empty blocks in our code base, I was playing around with NDepend and the amazing Code Query Language , but it's...