FlowDocuments, Images, and Text Wrapping

While working on a project, I had a requirement to display an image accompanied by text that wrapped around said image.  I knew right away that TextBlocks were not going to help me there.  I quickly set out to find something capable of flowing text; enter the FlowDocument.  Most of the samples I found discussed [...]

Windows Azure error “There was an error attaching the debugger to the IIS worker process for URL ‘http://127.255.0.0:82/’…”

Since I last rebuilt my development machine I haven’t had a need to even look at web development let alone Windows Azure.  The last time I had “opportunity” to develop anything using Windows Azure was with version 1.3.  At the time version 1.4 was still in beta and I couldn’t seem to successfully install it. [...]

Using Compiled Resources and Generating Debug Info with MASM32

I had been using the MASM32 SDK to get familiar with Microsoft Assembly.  I thought I’d just share a couple basic things that helped me in the process. Using Compiled Resources The MASM editor that is installed from the SDK is the ‘Small Memory Footprint Editor Quick Editor’.  Creating, compiling, linking and running MASM source [...]

Remote Debugging from Visual Studio 2010

In my latest project I was running into an issue where running my installed application on a test machine was crashing before it could even startup, but it ran perfectly when installed on my machine. I was almost to the point of taking the time to install Visual Studio 2010 on the test machine, when [...]

Crazy WinRT XAML Bug in Windows 8 Developer Preview

I’ve been playing with the developer preview release of Windows 8 that we got from //BUILD/.  Everyday, we find more and more “issues” that are either just straight up bugs, things that are not implemented yet, or maybe even issues that won’t be resolved because WinRT is “just different”.  This one was especially “fun” to [...]

GitHub 101 on Windows

This post is a continuation off of this post on Up and Running with Git and Visual Studio, if you have no idea what Git is, or how to setup git and git-extensions on windows I recommend you start there. So you’ve installed git and git extensions, written a sweet hello world application, made some [...]