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Blend Path interfering with C# Project Builds



Ran into a nasty Visual Studio error today that caused a compiler error related to an errand assembly reference from Visual Studio Blend. Blend? I don't even use Blend, and this is a Web Project. Here's what the problem is and how to get around it with a temporary hack.

<main> HTML5 Tag not working in Internet Explorer 9/10/11



Ran into a problem the other day with Internet Explorer 11 not rendering the HTML5
tag properly - or rather rendering as if it wasn't there at all. Here's the problem and the simple workaround.

Tip: Create a Visual Studio Menu option to Open a Terminal (and other things)



I'm finding myself using the command line more and more, especially with ASP.NET vNext for running Web apps from the command line, accessing git and JavaScript build tools. Here's a real easy way to pop open a Command Window in the active project directory from Visual Studio.

Using Cordova and Visual Studio to build iOS Mobile Apps



Apache Cordova is a hybrid mobile toolset to build Mobile applications using Web Technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Microsoft recently released a preview of its toolset for building Cordova applications with Visual Studio. In this article Rick takes a look at the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova for building, debugging and running iOS mobile applications from Windows by way of an example that takes an existing mobile Web AlbumViewer app and porting it to Cordova.

INSTALL_FAILED_VERSION_DOWNGRADE: Watch your Android App Version



Ran into a nasty problem with an Android app install today and was unable to get the app to install on the device for debugging. Got an INSTALL_FAILED_VERSION_DOWNGRADE after a bunch of false starts it turns out this problem had an easy solution for me.
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