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If you aren’t a subscriber to Sara Ford’s blog and you use VS.NET then shame on you. Here is a great little trick for debugging: TracePoints. No more adding one off Debug.Writeline just to see values while debugging.

WARNING: This is really long and most likely boring to most people. I’ve posted in just in case someone else is migrating their Community Server site over to Graffiti and runs into the same things I did. I was sick last week and missed quite a bit of work. This weekend I was supposed to go to Mammoth Cave with the in-laws but was still recovering (and no, it wasn’t an excuse.

If you are a C# developer you’re familiar with the using directive. It appears at the top of every one of your class files informing the compiler what namespaces should be looked at while compiling this code page so that you don’t have to fully qualify every object. (This isn’t the interesting bit) using System; using System.Collections.Generic; But did you also know you can use it to make aliases? (This still isn’t the interesting bit, keep reading…)