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The InnerException message was 'Type 'System.DelegateSerializationHolder+DelegateEntry' with data contract name 'DelegateSerializationHolder.DelegateEntry:http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System' is not expected.

In .NET 4.0 / Visual Studio 2010 I was working with a WPF application who’s ViewModel was sending a Model (Data) object back to a WCF service for processing. In previous versions of the framework and WCF I could simply send any serializable object Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:06 AM by david | 0 Comments

Filed under: C#, WCF, Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, WPF

Bug with Visual Studio 2010 and DBML designer – Changes not causing regeneration of DataContext code.

Vote for this bug if you encounter this problem. Basically in 2010, if you regen the DBML file outside of VS the underlying DataContext code does not get regenerated. This is bad because changes outside of VS 2010 to your DBML will not get Read More...

Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 9:53 PM by david | 0 Comments

Filed under: C#, .NET 3.5, Linq, Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, DBML

Visual Studio 2010: Debug annotations (sticky notes) for debugging / Quick Watch

Two really cool features in Visual Studio 2010 for C# developers. 1) Sticky Notes Quick Watch with annotations. You may say, huh? What are you talking about? Well, look at the screen cap below. This is by far one of the coolest Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 6:35 PM by david | 0 Comments

Filed under: C#, Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, WPF

Custom configuration settings and persisting data to XML… the right way.

At my wits end with some seriously lame code I stumbled upon today. Believe it or not, I actually saw a developer use a dead open source .ini reader/writer to read and write ONE setting in a config file. The best part is the open source project Read More...

Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:23 PM by david | 0 Comments

Filed under: C#, .NET 3.5, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, XML, Serialization, .NET 4.0