Blogs

When debugging JavaScript in an ASP.NET MVC (4) application, it is not always enough to uncheck the 'Disable script debugging' checkboxes under 'Tools' - 'Internet Options' - 'Advanced' - 'Browsing'. JavaScript...

Problem: Developing a generic class that maps datasets, datatables and datarows from a legacy system to my domain model, I ran into an issue. I wanted to call a generic method with a runtime type. Lets say the method looked like this: public string DoSomething<T>...

I’ve had the book by Sayed Hashimi and William Bartholomew “Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build” for more than a year and had to refer to it every time I needed to tailor MSBuild scripts. There are very few books...

This week Microsoft released the first public downloadable beta of BizTalk Server 2013, which is scheduled to be released H1 2013. Curious about the changes in the installation procedure, I decided to grab a Windows Server 2012 VHD , Visual Studio 2012...

Tonight Microsoft announced the public download of BizTalk Server 2013 beta. I’m not going to relist the features because, they are perfectly described here on the blog of the Microsoft BizTalk server team . Formerly this release was known as BizTalk...

My Microsoft Touch Mouse stopped scrolling in Visual Studio on my Windows 8 machine some time ago. Because this kills productivity, I wanted to fix the problem. After trying some things I found that the problem only occurred when I ran Visual Studio as...

In my previous post I wanted my Visual Studio to ‘Run as Administrator’ on my Windows 8 machine. I only managed to get this working for the pinned taskbar icon and not for items in the jumplist or for items you open by double clicking them. The solution...