If you receive the following Visual Studio compiler error:

Error MSB4019: The imported project "C:Microsoft.CSharp.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.

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Qink has assembled a comprehensive list of freely-available libraries for the Microsoft .NET platform.

Free .NET Libraries

Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for its Visual Studio 2010 flagship integrated development environment (IDE).  Visual Studio SP1 provides many new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes including:

• Stand-alone Help Viewer 1.1
• Silverlight 4 support
• Basic Unit Testing support for .NET 3.5
• .NET Framework 4 improvements
• Performance Wizard for Silverlight
• Visual Basic Runtime embedding
• IntelliTrace for 64-bit and SharePoint
• Fix for partial or mixed Visual Studio installations
• IIS 7.5 Express support
• SQL Server CE 4 support
• Razor support for ASP.NET Web Pages and MVC 3
• Web Platform Installer integration
• HTML5 and CSS3 preliminary support
• WCF RIA Services localized and supported
• XAML Editor/Designer improvements
• XAML Style IntelliSense
• C++ MFC-based GPU-accelerated graphics and animations
• New AMD and Intel instruction set support

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When building a C# interface, you may find a need for both public and internal methods, such as:

public class MyClass : IMyInterface
{
    public void MyPublicMethod() { }
    internal void MyInternalMethod() { }
}
public interface IMyInterface
{
    public void MyPublicMethod();
    internal void MyInternalMethod();
}

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There is No PaddingF

There is Point and PointF, Size and SizeF, Rectangle and RectangleF, Padding and… wait, there is no PaddingF!

System.Drawing vs. System.Windows.Forms

The 2-D drawing functions in the System.Drawing namespace accept both integer and floating point measurements.  That’s why the main 2-D drawing structures have both int and float versions such as Point and PointF, respectively.

However, the Padding structure is defined separately in the System.Windows.Forms namespace where most 2-D measurements are in integers.  Hence, there is an integer Padding structure but no floating point PaddingF.

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Microsoft has updated the free Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2010.  These are add-ins that provide very useful additional functionality for Visual Studio.  New in this release:

• No More Extension Resets – This version of the Productivity Power Tools will be the last which resets the extensions.
• Find – Quick find & incremental search now pops up at top right-hand corner of the editor.
• Enhanced Scrollbar – Icons overlay the scrollbar to show edits, breakpoints, bookmarks, errors, warnings, etc.
• Middle-Click Scrolling – Use your scroll wheel to quickly scroll through your document.
• Organize Imports for Visual Basic – Sort the imports logically and remove the ones that aren’t being used.

Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2010

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The Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is a free, centralized code sample library provided by the Microsoft Community team.  Their goal is to provide typical code samples for all Microsoft development technologies.

The team listens to developers’ pains in MSDN forums, social media and various developer communities.  They write code samples based on developers’ frequently asked programming tasks, and allow developers to download them with a short code sample publishing cycle.  Additionally, the team offers a free code sample request service.  This service is a proactive way for our developer community to obtain code samples for certain programming tasks directly from Microsoft.

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Do you notice anything odd about the following list?

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If your Silverlight project compiles correctly and appears to run, but it displays only a blank page in the web browser, the first place to check is the “Startup object” in the Silverlight’s project properties:

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To iterate over an IDictionary<x,y> interface, use the KeyValuePair<x,y> structure.  Following is a simple example:

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