August 2008 - Posts

• Registering Design-Time Changes Programmatically in Custom .NET Controls

  I've been putting together a nice little WinForms Wizard control recently that had a few twist and turns to its development. In particular, I wanted to make the design-time experience a good one for the end user. I wanted to support design-time navigation... Posted Aug 28 2008, 07:47 PM by Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) Filed under: C#, Visual Studio

• Using an SGEN.exe MSBuild task in TFS Build

  Earlier this year I posted an article demonstrating how to use the SGEN.exe utility to generate a serialization assembly. The article identified how to create a custom MSBuild task by editing the project file (e.g., csproj). I've recently come to... Posted Aug 26 2008, 01:06 PM by Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) Filed under: Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio

• Repairing TFS's Team Explorer Build Node in Visual Studio 2008

  I've had an issue on two computers (my primary development machine and a virtual pc dev box) which I was finally able to solve today after many hours of frustrated searching and experimenting. Interestingly, this issue only affected my two machines... Posted Aug 17 2008, 11:34 PM by Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) Filed under: Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio

• VS 2008 SP1 Fixes Missing .resources Issue

  I upgraded my Visual Studio 2008 installation the other day to SP1 and everything went beautifully. One of the issues that Microsoft fixed centered around the naming of embedded binary resource files. Traditionally, binary resource files have an extension... Posted Aug 14 2008, 04:27 PM by Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) Filed under: Visual Studio

• Succumbing to Peer Pressure

  I finally gave in (for better or for worse) and signed up on facebook.com this past weekend. I've always had an aversion to such social networking sites for one reason or another. In fact, facebook.com and myspace.com have long been blocked on my... Posted Aug 05 2008, 01:18 AM by Zupancic Perspective (v2.0) Filed under: facebook.com, Journal