Sam's Blog

The ProvideLanguageServiceAttribute class has been with us for many years now. At least since it shipped as source code in the Visual Studio 2005 SDK. With more than two dozen properties, it’s easy to get lost trying to figure out which ones are meaningful and/or useful, and which ones are safe to ignore.

Assembly versioning for strong-named assemblies is a notoriously difficult topic, but once understood becomes straightforward to work with. In this post, I’ll cover two features I recently started incorporating into my projects to ensure the versioning rules for the project are properly observed prior to releasing packages. Distribution of Strong Name signing files (*.snk) in […]