Recently, a coworker introduced me to this cool little utility for browsing and decompiling Microsoft’s .NET class framework called Reflector for .NET.
The best feature is that it doesn’t just reveal the underling IL code but it translates it into either C# or VB.NET. It also has the ability to decompile other “compiled” .NET [...]

A teammate working on the same .NET project at my consulting gig recently experienced the following error while working in Visual Studio 2003.
Not only was the error dialog filled with helpful information, but nothing happened when the developer clicked the “OK” button. No crash, no loss of data, nothing. He just [...]

One of my all-time favorite Visual Studio 2003 bugs occurs when trying to build a solution with multiple projects that all reference a base library.
If any code changes in the base library, the very next build will always fail with the following error:
Could not write to output file ‘[path-to-project]\obj\Debug\[file-name].dll’ — ‘The process cannot access the [...]