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Stopwatch snippet
A little snippet that I use from time to time when I need information on how long something takes. Type ‘sw’ (without the quotes) and tab-tab . Installation is easy, just create a file called “sw.snippet” in your %Documents%\Visual Studio 2008\Code Snippets...
Posted: Jun 11 2008, 12:00 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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VS2008 DataDude and conditional deployment
This has taken us some time; depending on which environment you are, telling Visual Studio 2008 for Database Professionals Edition (or simply DataDude) what user it should use to deploy the SQL scripts, during an automated build. We're working with...
Posted: Jun 02 2008, 04:18 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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Programmatically creating an IIS7 site
I'm using FinalBuilder to build and deploy websites on our test server. FinalBuilder is a great product, but our client is using Windows Server 2008 and FinalBuilder does not have actions for IIS7. I might add the actions to my weblog, but here's...
Posted: May 16 2008, 03:52 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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Manual check for updates with ClickOnce
I really love [wikipedia:ClickOnce], because it removes the necessity to build a web application. In my years as a developer, I can't count the projects that were web based, simply because of the deployment model. And then ClickOnce came around. Now...
Posted: Nov 05 2007, 09:40 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 8 comment(s)
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Mobile development
Two weeks ago Mike Schroepfer, a Mozilla developer, announced that they'll launch a version of Firefox that can be run mobile devices. If you own a Windows Mobile device, you're probably craving for a better browsing experience, just like I am...
Posted: Oct 24 2007, 12:13 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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Wat zegt Dennis?
I've been a little busy with Mobile Development lately, focusing on Windows Mobile PocketPC and .NET Compact Framework 3.5 development. Mostly because of the Summer Class and Winter Class , and the Mobile Development training for Class-A. I have however...
Posted: Oct 18 2007, 01:42 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 6 comment(s)
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WCF Simple Example
On my WCF Introduction post I received a trackback to an example that should be really simple to start WCF with. I'm not here to judge the post (although I could ;-), but it got me thinking. Although I created some small posts on how WCF works, together...
Posted: Apr 20 2007, 03:47 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 32 comment(s)
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"Orcas" March CTP & EntLib 3.0 Feb CTP
What a week! Both the new Visual Studio "Orcas" and Enterprise Library 3.0 CTPs are released. Enterprise Library got some fixes and the new Policy Injection Application Block is now included. I'm very much interested in it as it'll give a lot of new possibilities...
Posted: Mar 01 2007, 10:36 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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Reflector 5.0 released!
This is great news! Reflector 5 is out! And the best .NET Developer tool around has some new cool functions! Reflector 5.0 Reflector 5.0 Add-Ins @ CodePlex Reflector 5.0 New Features (PPT) You can now use uri's to let Reflector navigate to a method or...
Posted: Feb 20 2007, 03:02 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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WCF Part 7 : Bindings
As I've been pretty busy, it's been a while since my last post in the WCF series. But let's have a look at bindings now. A binding will tell a client what's necessary to connect to the service. In other words, how we connect is described by the binding...
Posted: Jan 05 2007, 10:40 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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ASP.NET debugging on Vista/IIS7
For some reason, a single project I'm working on wouldn't let the debugger attach to my IIS7 on Vista. I was completely clueless on why this was happening. Great thing is, the problem is solved, it now connects. The problem remaining is, that I'm still...
Posted: Jan 02 2007, 10:41 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 4 comment(s)
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Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista Beta
Just recently Service Pack 1 was released ( Beta! ) for Visual Studio 2005. Back then, the Vista update had a link, but it was removed. Miguel blogged that the beta version is online! This update is required because of the security enhancements to Windows...
Posted: Dec 21 2006, 01:55 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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System.Transactions : ReadUncommitted
Download code & sql scripts here I got a question today about setting the isolationlevel on a transaction to ReadUncommitted. The question was why the transaction still locked the row it was updating, when isolationlevel is set to ReadUncommitted...
Posted: Dec 18 2006, 10:13 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 4 comment(s)
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Visual Studio 2005 SP1 available!
And suddenly it's there... Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite SP1 (includes SP1 updates for Standard, Professional, and Team Editions of Visual Studio 2005) Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server SP1 Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions SP1 Visual Studio...
Posted: Dec 15 2006, 09:29 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 5 comment(s)
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Async invocation pattern
I talked to my colleague Alex Thissen recently about the changes in asynchronous invocation of ASP.NET 2.0 webservices. On the web there are a multitude of examples about the old way, but not so many on the new way. But after figuring out what the new...
Posted: Dec 13 2006, 04:16 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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