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A rather long title for this post, but that’s exactly what happened: when I opened an ASP.NET MVC 4 project with a cshtml view open, Visual Studio would crash with the error messages seen on the right. This would only occur if the first project I opened...

I wanted to run my app an my VM, but got the above error… A quick search on google lead me to this thread on DevCenter: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappswithhtml5/thread/3fc1f3cf-2d8b-4dee-a348-40d0bf2c3c66/ The answer there is spot...

I got a mail today, from a user … yes, really… A real user! He likes my app. And I like him for using it! I aim to please. He had 2 feature requests. I love that sort of thing. Yesterday I didn't really know what to do when sitting behind my pc. I...

As I explained in my last posts ( here and here ) I want to use Diffbot to implement my offline reading feature. I want the text to show up looking as close to the real website as I can. This can be done with the RichTextBlock control. This can implement...

I am still working on my app In the Pocket , but my focus is now on getting my paid version out. The paid version of In The Pocket (release 1) will add the following features to In The Pocket Free: Being able to save articles locally (implemented using...

With a couple of colleagues, I have started a new project: AzureGames . I was inspired by the Microsoft Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games , and was started as a CodePlex site. We are currently flushing out the bugs for the basic platform. As we don’t...

If you want to know how to share be a share target rather than the source, go here . Being is the source of the share action is simple. In the ViewModel where you have the content you want to share, add this: protected override void OnActivate() { base...

Today, after installing Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 on my home laptop, I experienced something I haven't since I started developing. I got this message when trying to install Caliburn.Micro in a new project: You are trying to install...