"Pending Changes” and “Source Control Explorer” missing from Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2013

To fix the issue simply run the below command in an elevated command prompt as detailed here. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /setup My understanding is this command forces the recreation (what Microsoft refers to as "merging") of current VS settings into what is apparently a corrupt settings cache. On the surface, this is similar to deleting the directory path C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\version and allowing visual studio to recreate it at launch. Recently...

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.NET serialization performance

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ProperBenchmarkingToDiagnoseAndSolveANETSerializationBottleneck.aspx ...

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Reactive programming in WPF

Obtics http://obtics.codeplex.com Project DescriptionThe object of this project is to create a library that offers Functional Reactive Programming abilities to common .Net languages.With FRP your calculations automatically respond to changes in the underlying data. Obtics includes a live Object Linq and Linq to Xml. Continuous LINQ http://clinq.codeplex.com Project DescriptionContinous LINQ is a .NET Framework 3.5 extension that builds on the LINQ query syntax to create continuous, self-updating result sets. In traditional LINQ...

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