Wes has a nice blog post about customizing the prop code snippet from VS2005 to use “_PropertyName” for the private field. While I like to use propertyName for my private fields this did get me to thinking and spurred me on to action over something that has annoyed me since I started using VS2008. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are using Visual Studio 2008 and blend together you have likely ran into the problem with loading a VS2008 created WPF project into Blend. It throws up an error about an invalid project file and probably complains about the following line:

<Import Project=”$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets” />

Fortunately there is a service pack out for Blend that fixes this problem (and some other odd issues with Blend). You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A07196D1-971B-4710-99C8-D3D9603CCFCB&displaylang=en