Last week a co worker of mine who wanted to remain anonymous, ran into the weirdest problem. She tried to use the “find in files” option in Visual Studio 2005 and even though the searched expression was out there in one of the files, she got the following result: “No files were found to look in. Find was stopped in progress.”

You can close Visual Studio, restart your computer or jump three times on one leg, but the problem remains. This is a very strange and odd bug, but fortunately there is a solution: press…

I am currently working on a project with a pluggable application (load plugins at runtime and execute them) that loads assemblies at runtime, using the Assembly.LoadFile() method. I wanted to test it using NUnit (feel free to read our 3 Ways to Run NUnit from Visual Studio post). Although, the code was functioning very well it always failed during the NUnit tests, always! It took me several days to understand what went wrong and I want to share you with my findings.

Yesterday I played around with WPF resources and stumbled on a very strange behavior. It seems that the order of the elements in the resources have some importance as to how the application handles them. A few code examples are attached

It is common knowledge that there is no such thing as software without bugs. There are several bugs out there that are hiding and therefore are not handled at all. We surely don’t want to release a software that will crash ungracefully due to such a case. Fortunately, the .Net framework makes it possible to [...]