Having recently updated an ASP.net MVC web app from MVC4 to MVC5 and from .NET 4.5 to .NET 4.7.2 I was expecting Razor views (.cshtml files) to use the latest C# compiler, especially since at Properties/Build/Advanced option for the web project one read “C# latest major version (default)”. However that was not the case and […]

Project Linker is a Visual Studio Extension that “helps to automatically create and maintain links from a source project to a target project to share code that is common to Silverlight and WPF”. In ClipFlair, where I have shared code between a Silverlight and a WPF project (I guess same would be for XNA projects [...]

Just got bitten by the following: Dim takeN As Integer = If(Integer.TryParse(EdTake.Text, takeN), takeN, itemsCount) I had used that instead of writing in 2 lines: Dim takeN As Integer If not Integer.TryParse(EdTake.Text, takeN) then takeN = itemsCount However, there’s an important difference: “If” is a function, so its arguments are evaluated at ...