You don’t need to be constantly updating your production work to use the latest and greatest technology. But you should stay knowledgable about what is out there and what is being created. There will come a time when it is appropriate to start using the new technology, but that all heavily depends on your projects … Read more
Make sure you have a reference to the assembly System.Configuration.dll
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You can use the assembly binding failure logging feature – it needs to be enabled and then you can use the fusion log viewer to see the results http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e74a18c4(v=vs.110).aspx Not sure how you will get this onto your clients machines. When I first read this my first thought was given it seems most common on … Read more
You can try turning Check-constraints off on the DataSet (it’s in its properties), or altering the properties of that relationship, and change the key to a simple reference – up to you.
According to Mastering Visual Studio book the ExtensibilityGlobals (and ExtensibilityAddIns) section included for the benefit of add-in authors. ExtensibilityGlobals used to store global information about the solution. So it is clearly generated by(or for) some 3rd party tools. The only discussion about SolutionGuid is here, which is generated by CMake and they advise that you … Read more
System.Windows.Media.Color is part of the System.Windows.Media namespace: Provides types that enable integration of rich media, including drawings, text, and audio/video content in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications. System.Drawing.Color is part of the System.Drawing namespace: The System.Drawing namespace provides access to GDI+ basic graphics functionality. More advanced functionality is provided in the System.Drawing.Drawing2D, System.Drawing.Imaging, and System.Drawing.Text … Read more
Well, according to the documentation, “The System.Diagnostics namespace provides classes that allow you to interact with system processes, event logs, and performance counters.” So I guess by definition it fits. 🙂 But yes, it does seem a bit like an overloading of terms by putting it next to things a bit more obviously diagnostics-related (tracing, … Read more
This overload of the “Activator.CreateInstance” method is used by compilers to implement the instantiation of types specified by type parameters using generics. Say you have the following method: public static T Factory<T>() where T: new() { return new T(); } The compiler will convert the “return new T();” to call “CreateInstance”. In general, there is … Read more
I realize this question is old, but in the interest of helping anyone who finds this via search, its worth noting that .net v4 includes a new general purpose cache for this type of scenario. It’s in the System.Runtime.Caching namespace: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd997357(v=vs.110).aspx The static reference to the default cache instance is: MemoryCache.Default