Scenario

Create a new configuration in Visual Studio and select ‘copy’ from an existing working configuration.  The new configuration will not compile now.

As it turns out, Visual Studio 2010 (even with SP1) does not copy the Conditional compilation symbols.

Adding in my conditional compilation symbols allows the project to compile now.

I use these two snippets a lot for WPF and Silverlight development.  I decided to post them on the blog so that I have them available to me whenever and wherever.  I always seem to be searching through older projects for this code.

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This snippet creates the ViewModelBase that I use almost everywhere.  It simply implements INotifyPropertyChanged and works in both WPF and Silverlight.  I use this for my ViewModels so that the properties on the VM are observable for databinding.  I use this in conjunction with my propsn snippet that creates a property with SafeNotify calls in the setter.

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This snippet is used to create the ModelBase.  Again, this is a WPF / Silverlight compatible class.  I link my model such that it compiles for WPF and Silverlight so that I can share my model between my WCF and my UI.  This class gives me INotifyPropertyChanged, SafeNotify, and a ToString implementation that uses reflection to dump a shallow representation of the class.

Hope this code helps someone.

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