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Various ways of searching through code quickly and effectively.

This is just a quick post to share a very simple PowerShell script I wrote to extract files from a compressed file (zip, 7z, whatever)

I couldn't resist borrowing my title from Christopher Bennage's post entitled "An Essential Tip for Working with XAML." My "essential tip" is identical to what he has already shown for WPF (and Fabrice originally) - it just applies to Windows Forms instead of WPF

I've been doing some work with MSIs lately, specifically using the WiX toolkit, so I thought I'd share a short primer on using WiX to build your own MSIs, and also to share some links and some tricks to avoid some pitfalls that I ran into.

If you've been writing .NET applications for a while, you're likely aware that you're not supposed to just throw Exception.