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If you use CodeRush Xpress with Windows Vista you may experience continuous crash of the environment.

To resolve this issue you can right click on the Visual Studio exe (or link in the startup menu) and go to the compatibility tab.

Then put a check on ‘Disable visual theme’ and ‘Execute as administrator’…the translation may not be accurate cause my OS is in Italian (look at the picture below).

Plus CodeRush Xpress do not appear to have any menu attached to the normal menu bar of Visual Studio 2008. To open its control panel you can use the following key combination:

ctrl+alt+shift+o

It’s time to write the last chapter of this series and take a look at how the resizing capability of the Window is implemented. Since the last time some new feature were added:

Code ported to Silverlight 2.0 RTW.
Solution refactored, the control is now available as a standalone assembly.
The template of the Window has [...]

Today I added a small Silverlight application to an existing and styled website, the app was surrounded by the usual <div>:

1: <div style="height: 100%">
2: <asp:Silverlight ID="Xaml1" runat="server" Source="~/ClientBin/XXX.xap"
3: MinimumVersion="2.0.31005.0" Width="100%" Height="100%" />
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As a developer I always look for some utilities that can help raise my productivity bar and avoid common bugs. I always go for open-source projects and free software first, cause we all know that in many cases we have a very limited budget to invest. So here is some GREAT pieces of software that [...]

If in your project you let NHibernate generate the database from the information you provide with the schema mappings (a thing extremely useful, especially for testing cause you can build up the database in engines like SQLite), sometimes you may need to control some attribute in a foreign key of a table.
Here is a sample [...]