Double-clicking Visual Studio solution files in Windows 7
I guess I am not the only one annoyed by the fact that I could not open Visual Studio by double-clicking a solution file. Finally I looked into this problem and first found a simple, but not satisfying solution:
By setting Visual Studio to not run as an administrator. But if you ever tried running Visual Studio on Windows 7 without admin rights, you know this is not a satisfying solution!
Optional parameters in C# 4.0
A while back I blogged about the great features of the Dynamic Language Runtime introduced in .Net 4.0. Today I will look into another great feature introduced in C# 4.0, namely the new named and optional parameters.
If you are familiar with C++, you have probably used optional parameters earlier, but C# has missed this feature until now. As a work around we had to use overloaded methods, but in the concept of clean code, I'd rather prefer to use optional parameters!
What’s new in WPF 4.0
Microsoft has just release a series of short (15 minutes long) how-to videos for WPF 4.0 introducing the various new features of WPF 4.0.