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&lt;Button xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” Content=”OK”&gt;<br />  &lt;Button.Background&gt;<br />    &lt;SolidColorBrush Color=”White”/&gt;<br />  &lt;/Button.Background&gt;<br />&lt;/Button&gt;

1	<Button xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” Content=”OK”><br /> <Button.Background><br /> <SolidColorBrush Color=”White”/><br /> </Button.Background><br /></Button>

Snippet 2:

&lt;Button xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation”<br />Content=”OK”&gt;<br />  &lt;Button.Background&gt;<br />    &lt;SolidColorBrush&gt;<br />      &lt;SolidColorBrush.Color&gt;<br />        &lt;Color A=”255” R=”255” G=”255” B=”255”/&gt;<br />      &lt;/SolidColorBrush.Color&gt;<br />    &lt;/SolidColorBrush&gt;<br />  &lt;/Button.Background&gt;<br />&lt;/Button&gt;

<Button xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation”<br />Content=”OK”><br /> <Button.Background><br /> <SolidColorBrush><br /> <SolidColorBrush.Color><br /> <Color A=”255” R=”255” G=”255” B=”255”/><br /> </SolidColorBrush.Color><br /> </SolidColorBrush><br /> </Button.Background><br /></Button>

Snippet 3:

System.Windows.Controls.Button button = new System.Windows.Controls.Button();<br />button.Content = “OK”;<br />button.Background = (Brush)System.ComponentModel.TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(Brush)).ConvertFromInvariantString(“White”);

1	System.Windows.Controls.Button button = new System.Windows.Controls.Button();<br />button.Content = “OK”;<br />button.Background = (Brush)System.ComponentModel.TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(Brush)).ConvertFromInvariantString(“White”);

Snippet 1 uses in-built converters to convert “special” type…

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Do you get confused identifying which w3wp.exe to attach to in Visual Studio?

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Two options for you: Option 1 (from command prompt) – In IIS 6: run %windir%system32cscript iisapp.vbs – In IIS 7: %windir%system32inetsrvappcmd.exe list wp…

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