Articles by Nicolas Dorier (Articles: 24, Tip/Tricks: 3)

How to easily animate Thickness in Silverlight (Margin, Padding, BorderThickness).

Pattern to easily create and test asynchronous solutions.

How to use an MSBuild custom task to provide compile time verification of string type names in app.config files.

You'll be able to easily and mechanically create your own Fluent library.

How to unit test network resources access : The hacker way.

Leverage Visual studio Web Test Framework for your crawling needs...

Configure the HTTP traffic on your local machine. A nice alternative for netsh http.

This article will teach you how to see what is going on inside. And take advantage from it.

Debugger API, explore and modify running program easily

You will learn how to create a semi automated crawler, and automate browsing

My journey to migrate pInvoke code to C++/CLI

Impersonating Windows user (and "fun" bugs you can have with it), correctly disposing a WCF CommunicationObject, getting a property name from an expression, getting a relative path, weak collection listener, thread safe dictionary, enum flag help, test helper

A framework to help you migrate your software from version X to version X+n.

How to use duplex communication over MSMQ bindings.

How to code a TransportBindingElement.

How to extend MSBuild to dynamically compile stuff during a build.

Enhance Visual Studio and your build process in just two clicks. This tool does its best to be out of your way, while improving your development experience seemlessly.

Practical use case of Genuilder.Extensibility: Strongly typed AppSettings.

Generate your own code during compilation without MSBuild knowledge

An introduction to Genuilder Extensibility

Generate, verify, modify code files automatically during the build process of your projects.

Stop wasting time on a stupid typo in binding paths.

Access xaml resources in a strongly typed way

A design pattern to easily bind or animate properties that do not exist on an element, and which works in both Silverlight and WPF.

This is a short bat program to create a self signed key (with private key), if you call the bat "makecertif.bat", to create a key named ServerKey you need to type :makecertif.bat ServerKey, it will create ServerKey.pfx, a certificate with a private key you can use to secure a web site in...

Generate Async ServiceContract automatically for your Silverlight projects

Want to use multi selection in WPF TreeView ? <Setter Property="BorderBrush"...