Embedded resources in C# projects that retain slashes
.NET assemblies may contain embedded streams of arbitrary data. In an msbuild project this is done by adding an EmbeddedResource item to your project with the path to a file…
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.NET assemblies may contain embedded streams of arbitrary data. In an msbuild project this is done by adding an EmbeddedResource item to your project with the path to a file…
In PowerShell if you need to determine the process or OS architecture, you should theoretically be able to leverage the .NET APIs to find it out. And in fact this…
I’m a big fan of pipelines that fail for warnings as well as errors. Such a policy keeps repos clean, current, less buggy, and even more agile. This works best…
It is amazing what the .NET SDK can enable you to build with so little code. But very soon you need to add a cloud build pipeline for CI builds…
A lot has been said about whether folks should rebase, squash or merge into their git repos. It has almost gotten to the level of religious arguments like tab vs.…
I’ve spent the past few weeks building up the PCLCrypto library which targets .NET Framework, Windows Store (WinRT), Windows Phone (WP8), Silverlight (SL), Xamarin.Android (XA) and Xamarin.iOS (XI). What started…
Disclosure and disclaimer: I am a software engineer at Microsoft, but the following post (just like all other posts on this blog) is my own and in no way represents…
Inspired by these instructions, I followed these steps: Install Python 2.6 Install PyGTK All-in-one installer Install meld Then you need to configure git to be able to find and invoke…
In my last post, I detailed the differences among read/write, read only, frozen and immutable collection types. I described how immutable collections come with a hit to the garbage collector…
I have accepted a new position within Microsoft with the Visual Studio Platform & Ecosystem team. Rather than working on the .NET Compact Framework I will be working on "VS10". …