Daniel Cazzulino's Blog

You surely have set the startup application for a project countless times:

1. Get the .NET 4.0 Beta 2 download from MSDN.
2. Open the downloaded .exe with 7zip (i.e. right-click on file, select 7-Zip > Open Archive)
3. Navigate to the .rsrc\RCDATA\ "folder" and open the CABINET file:
   
   
   
4. Extract the contained MSI, install and enjoy!
   
   
   
   
   
   

First go get the tool. It's free and it rocks.

Scott Bellware has an interesting series of posts where he discusses how to get back to productive development teams. As usual in his writing (IMO), in a rather verbose way he brings up quite a few good points. Please go ahead and read them. He links from the first entry to the next so you can follow the flow.

Say you have a (typically autogenerated) class with properties like:

You know how annoying the GAC shell extension makes it to access the actual assemblies:

Windows Media Center (WMC) is based on a relatively simple (albeit awfully implemented) principle: you have ONE "server" PC holding and running your media, and then you associate any number of Media Center Extenders to it that are typically (except for the XBox 360) single-purpose devices that can only act as such and are fancy and silent enough to deserve a place in your living room.

. without paying for a TypeMock Isolator license to do it ;-)