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How many times you wanted to move 2 lines by cut and pasting them, but the line you cut last is actually a blank line and your actual code is removed from the clipboard? Visual Studio 2010 has an option that keeps cutting blank lines from overwriting the clipboard. Go and uncheck this one: Tools » Options » Text Editor » All Languages » General » Apply Cut or Copy commands to blank lines when there is no selection

If you’re a ReSharper user and Silverlight 4 developer you’ll probably like this add-in that two of my co-workers created. It lets you run your Silverlight unit tests inside the Visual Studio IDE.

Been working with Entity Framework (.NET 4.0) for a week now for a data migration job and needed some code that generically corrects string values in the database. You probably also have seen things like empty strings instead of NULL or non-trimmed texts ("United States       ") in "old" databases, and you don't want to apply a correcting function on every column you migrate.

In ASP.NET you can retrieve the last unhandled exception via:

 My colleague Kristof wrote an article about a Surface project he did for VTM (Belgian national television) and it was used during yesterdays' election show.

Here's some code for a server control "PropertyParameter" that you can use as a SelectParameter in your xyzDataSource that binds (one-way!) to a property value that is defined in code behind. This is something I need sometimes and isn't available out-of-the-box.

Weird problem in ASP.NET again... With a weird solution:

My (much more productive) colleague Davy beat me to post this problem we had today at work, so I'm gonna be lazy and link to him (and steal his title).