July 12, 2010
This is a particularly well-known error (see here, here, and here), but this is the second time that I’ve had to do a search on this error so I thought that I’d post it here so that I can find it more quickly. Anyway, when this error occurs, make sure that the NULL types in [...]
June 9, 2010
If you’re having difficulties debugging a section of code that uses the SafeFileDialog.ShowDialog() method, the reason is that Silverlight requires that the ShowDialog() method be called from a user-generated action. For whatever reason, entering into debug mode makes Silverlight think that you are not responding to a user-action, even when you are. To work around [...]
May 31, 2010
In a current project that I’m working on, I needed to extend a UserControl to add some additional specialized functionality. This is very easy to do if all you need is to extend code, but it becomes much more difficult if you want to extend it via a XAML/C# UserControl. After much web searching, I [...]
October 1, 2008
If, by chance, you’re like me and recently installed Visual Studio 2008 onto a 64-bit version of Windows, you may be getting the following error when you attempt to debug an application: The components for the 64-bit debugger are not registered. Please repair your Visual Studio 2008 Remote Debugger installation via ‘Add or Remove Programs’ [...]