Daniel Cazzulino's Blog

This is not entirely obvious (at least it wasn’t for me), but since Github wikis are actually backed by a proper Git repo, I figured it should be possible to access the raw markdown for a page by using Github’s https://raw.github.com/ style URLs.

“Old” apps rely on mouse pointing and tooltips to explain what a given button is for. Maybe there is text associated with the button, but you can only put so much text without wasting useful screen state. More so in a phone or tablet app.

When you add library references to project that are not reference assemblies or installed in the GAC, Visual Studio defaults to setting Copy Local to True:

When creating a VSIX or VS Package extension to VS, the default .vsix file name matches the project assembly name. Usually this is too long. So if you want to change it to be a short name, you have to edit the project file and add the following property:

Blog engines were the new "cool thing to write" after the fever of writing a new DI framework was over. It was kinda like the new "hello world++" example. Almost every single engine uses a database of some sort to keep posts and comments. Almost every one is not leveraging the web as a consequence ;)

I'm always on the lookout for cool toys that can empower my kids (9, 6 and 2yo) to be creative and break the mold of being just consumers of other's ideas.

This is a very handy utility that I’ve used consistently for years now. I’ve been updating it since VS 2003 days. Originally from Scott’s blog, IIRC.

We all need some kind of tracing or logging in our apps. We’d also like third party components to provide useful logging too. And if it integrates with whatever logging framework we happen to use, even better!