There is always a lot of interest around my desk at work any time I change the color schemes in Visual Studio. I usually bounce between the default “light” color scheme and a “dark” scheme, mostly depending on much actual coding I’m doing at the moment, but sometimes just because... Read more

Partial methods are a new feature available in C# 3.0 that don’t seem to get enough credit. I think there was a lot of confusion early on about what partial methods were and how they were used. Partial methods are intended to solve a major problem that is not only... Read more

Up until recently, I had never heard of a volatile registry key. I cam across a post by Daniel Moth that presents an extension method that adds support for both .NET and NETCF. While I haven’t looked at the projects he provides, it did get me thinking... Read more

For the last 4 years or so I have been involved, either directly or indirectly, with creating standardized build systems that run on the Microsoft platform. Before that I was actually a Unix admin and developer and was very proficient in writing makefiles. When I first got involved in build... Read more

I know I just mentioned this project yesterday, but I wanted to thank those of you who have already downloaded it. Hopefully you have found it useful so far. I have already updated the project for the 1.0.2913.51352 release, which adds a few new tasks and cleans up some... Read more