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Updated NUnit Templates for ASP.Net MVC 1.0 RTM

ASP.Net MVC 1.0 RTM has been out for a while and I noticed that people are still downloading an NUnit sample project I created for ASP.Net MVC Preview 3. Since then an AccountController class and a corresponding set of unit tests have been added to the MVC Application project. I created an updated set of NUnit templates with tests for the Home...

ThreadAbortException

 System.Threading.ThreadAbortException is just plain weird. For instance, most exceptions happen because of something code did on its own thread: even asynchronous exceptions are caused by something your code did on the current thread. (Note for the nitpickers: gamma rays can cause a bit in memory to flip randomly, bringing about ...

CLR Inside Out – Optimizations In .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

(image) The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN magazine is now available on line.  This month we have an article from Surupa Biswas on Optimizations In .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. You can find a list of all “CLR Inside Out” articles here.  As always, please let us know if you have topics you...

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 12

Most Recent Posts:Silverlight Tip of the Day #106 - Setting Default Browser from within VS Silverlight Tip of the Day #105 - How to Enable GPU Acceleration Silverlight Tip of the Day #104 - Cool Silverlight Tutorial Blogs Silverlight Tip of the Day #103 - Use Integers for Layout Calculations Silverlight Tip of the Day #102 -...

MIX09 talk on Core CLR

 For everyone who attended MIX this year, we hope it was a lot of fun. Brandon from our team, gave a talk on "Going Inside Microsoft Silverlight: Exploring the Core CLR" at MIX09 last week. The talk covers how the desktop CLR was slimmed down to be used for Silverlight, and in the process, covers Core CLR's architecture (...

Exceptions out of Fault/Finally

 Assumption: This write-up assumes that you are familiar with the managed exception handling constructs (e.g. catch, filter, fault, finally). If not, you may want to read this and also refer to the CLI specification. Managed exception handling exposes constructs to handle an exception (e.g. catch and filter blocks) and also to ...

Hotfix for “Design view does not update HTML” and to “Designer inserts a lot of  “

A hotfix is now available for issues most commonly described as "I make changes in Design view but Source does not get updated" and "After certain actions designer inserts a lot of   in the page". This hotfix can be downloaded from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB967253/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2845 http...

New TlbImp Release on CodePlex – Full Customization of Interop Assemblies

It has been a few months since our last release of TlbImp on CodePlex. We recently released a new version of TlbImp – please visit the Codeplex page for this tool to find out more. In this release, we’ve introduced two major features: 1. Ruled-based customization of interop assemblies 2. TlbImp regression test tool Ruled-based ...