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Big centipede escapes
15 May 2009, 10:31:00 AM
The kids found a Giant Redheaded Centipede crawling around outside so we caught it and put Bob (kids named it Bob right away) in a cage to observe for a few days. It started off well, it ate 7 mealworms the first evening, but we were surprised ...
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DynamicTypeService error in Silverlight projects
26 Mar 2009, 07:11:00 AM
I ran into an error with web services when updating an application from Silverlight 2 to Silverlight 3.  Custom tool error: Failed to generate file: Unable to find service 'DynamicTypeService'.  Ensure that the application is installed cor ...
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Visual Studio 2008, missing user-handled column in Exceptions window
15 Jan 2009, 05:51:00 AM
Sometimes I find that the User-handled column in the Exceptions window is missing in Visual Studio 2008. It can be displayed by selecting Tools / Options… / Debugging / General / and checking Enable Just My Code (Managed Only). Th ...
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Snapshot of XAML control, save to image
21 Nov 2008, 12:52:00 PM
You can use the RenderTargetBitmap class to generate an image from a UI element. For example, say you want to generate an image from the XAML element ThePanel. <StackPanel Name="ThePanel" Orientation="Horizontal"> ...
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