CallContext

This is the tool any serious .NET developer must have. I should perhaps qualify it with saying Visual Studio.NET developer.I've installed the 3.0 beta, as I spend quite a bit of my day in VB.NET now and it has better support than the 2.5 version (plus Read More

This has been bugging me for a while now, and it finally came to me last week when I had to have this discussion with a couple of workmates and a client. Data validation isn't all it's cracked up to be. This client has been having some terrible trouble Read More

Playing around with XAML animations tonight. I should be placed against the wall for this, but I couldn't resist. Might start a new craze... Open up XAMLPad and past this rubbish into it: <Page xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" Read More

I don't know if you should blame Microsoft, or the... people... who did the XSD spec. Anyway, according to the XSD spec, the integer type is a numeric value with no upper or lower bounds. .NET therefore struggles to find a way to map it to any value, Read More