To get the disclaimer out of the way first: I received a free NDepend Professional license for evaluation purposes, but that in no way influenced my opinion of the software. (Anyone who says otherwise shall be named Mike Arrington). NDepend, a code analysis tool by Patrick Smacchia, is something I had always read about on popular .NET blogs, but never ......

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For my current project, I've implemented a Shared AssemblyInfo.cs file, mostly because every project is from the same company and share some common version numbers. In one of my console applications, I needed to construct a header using the Assembly Title and Copyright information from my SharedAssemblyInfo.cs file. To achieve this, I added the following ......

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Here's an extension method that packs a C# BitArray to a byte array: public static byte[] ToByteArray(this BitArray bits) { int numBytes = bits.Count / 8; if (bits.Count % 8 != 0) numBytes++; byte[] bytes = new byte[numBytes]; int byteIndex = 0, bitIndex = 0; for (int i = 0; i < bits.Count; i++) { if (bits[i]) bytes[byteIndex] |= (byte)(1 << ......

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I decided to use DocBook to generate documentation for SalesWeb, but I was finding it difficult to remember which tags I could use. Since DocBook is XML-based, it has a schema that can be plugged into Visual Studio 2005/2008 to enable intellisense. I’ve put together a tiny ZIP file that has everything you need to get started: DocBook 4.5 Intellisense ......

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I don't like messing with DVDs and their cases when I want to watch a movie, so I went and bought a 250 GB Maxtor OneTouch 4 external hard drive. Over the next few days, I plan to rip my DVD collection to it so I can watch them on Windows Media Center via my Xbox 360. As a test, I ripped "Leon The Professional" to my new drive and attempted to play ......

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