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I recently ran into a scenario where I wanted to run all of my tests within a TestClass multiple times, each with a different Selenium browser. I did not want to resort to having each test have a loop within it or force each test to have a data source that fed it the browsers.

After doing some digging, more digging, and more digging I thought all hope was lost.

Then I ran across this article on extending the Visual Studio test types and decided to see if that would work. To alleviate the suspense, yes, it did work, and after the break I will show you how.

There was a recent question on StackOverflow asking how to drag content from a rich text box and drop it into windows explorer to create a file. I did some digging and found that this was surprisingly easy to do. The thing to understand is that Explorer drag and drop expects the file to exist. So the solution I came up with was when the mouse leaves the RTB, if the left button is down, we save a temporary file and then setup the drag and drop.

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That's it. Now you can highlight some text in the RTB and drag it out to a folder and it will create a file called helloworld.rtf.

In this video we go over the steps required to create draggable images in your Windows 8 application. We start from a brand new application so you understand all of the pieces required to get it working.



Code after the break.

In this video we go over the steps required to create a settings page for your Windows 8 application. We start from a brand new application so you understand all of the pieces required to get it working.

One of the first things I found jarring when I logged into VS 2012 was the uppercase menu.



I hate when my IDE yells at me, and by default it is now doing it all the time. What gives? It turns out there is an easy registry fix to get the menus back to normal. Simply set the following registry key:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General]
"SuppressUppercaseConversion"=dword:00000001

Restart VS 2012, and everything is back to normal. Well, as normal as VS 2012 gets.



Here is a reg file you can download to perform the fix for you:

Suppress Uppercase Menu in VS 2012.reg

There was a question over on stackoverflow the other day that I had some fun with. Someone asked how to animate a truck moving on a map. The implementation I provided was a static one and would only work for this map, but it was kind of fun to see the result. I figured I would share the result here.

Here is a quick video on how to get at the output from a command line application in C# 4.0:


Code Snippets after the break.

I had some friends upload an album to imgur and I wanted to download them to my computer, but I found that imgur did not have an easy way to do this; So I wrote a little app that will let you download all pictures in an album directly to your machine.

Simply put the URL of the album into the Album URL text box and click the download button. By default it will save the images to your My Pictures\ImgUr Albums folder, but that can be changed using the settings button. Also, the folder icon will take you directly to the folder of the last album downloaded.



If you have any suggestions, post them here.

Download the application here.

Update: I have updated the installer to use a more standard installation package, which should alleviate problems in chrome and firefox.

Update 2012-06-27: The downloader has been updated to support albums with more than 56 items in it.

I started using Reddit's API in C# to try and get a list of stories and comments. It took me a bit to get the JSON syntax parsing right, so for anyone who needs help here is a decent example of loading the list of stories from r/all.

When testing an Azure application against the Microsoft Platform Ready tool, I received the error "The subscription Id or the certificate provided is invalid".



I triple checked my subscription Id and I knew that the certificate I was referencing was associated with my hosted service, so I didn't understand the issue.

It turns out the certificate they are looking for is actually a management certificate associated with the subscription and not one tied to the hosted service. So under your Azure management portal, go to the "Hosted Services, Storage Accounts & CDN" and select the Management certificates section, and use a certificate from there, or upload one if you haven't used one yet.