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Microsoft DevDays ‘09, I’m attending!
Thanks to our friends at Microsoft (and their great BizSpark program ) I will be able to attend DevDays ‘09! We won tickets because we updated our company profile and added projects at the Discover Metro site. Normally attending this kind of event is...
Finally, a way to preview your site in all (important) browsers
I just read this great article by Mark Voermans : Expression Web SuperPreview: Look how your site renders in various Browsers I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve been waiting for this for a long, LONG time. I’ll give it a go this afternoon and let you...
Fix available for IE8 asp:menu problem
I just read an interesting article on Bertrand Le Roy's blog. The most important information: It so happens that the menu control is making a bad assumption on what the default value for z-index should be. We debated this at length with the IE team...
In this mode, command line arguments will not be passed to the executable
When trying to pass some command line arguments to a Console Application, I got the following message: "The current project settings specify that the project will be debugged with specific security permissions. In this mode, command line arguments...
Installing my laptop after a repair
I’m reinstalling my laptop after I got it back from a repair… EMPTY (grrr). What tools shouldn’t I forget when preparing this laptop to be my development machine? Already have Visual Studio, SQL Management Studio, Office and the Windows Live tools installed...
Clicking 'Choose items' on the toolbox crashes Visual Studio 2008
I've had my current installation for a few months now, and I've used it for development purposes. Today I suddenly encountered an error when trying to add items to the Toolbox. Visual Studio 2008 simply disappeared... No errors, no warnings, it...
Nice new addition to ASP.NET
Scott Guthrie posted about a cool new ASP.NET server control: Chart. It can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios. Read more over here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/24/new-asp-net-charting...
Inline wrappers & Response.Redirect() == Error
While developing a page that was to be used through an inline wrapper, I got an error: "Validation of viewstate MAC failed". This error can usually be resolved by disabling event validation , viewstate encryption or viewstate for the MAC . In...
An inline wrapper and having too much on your head
We developed an ASP.NET page (A) to be wrapped in an existing PHP page (B) using an inline wrapper. After a few days in which both pages displayed nicely, our page (A) suddenly got displayed twice inside the existing page (B).  And even weirder was...
StyleCop v4.3 now available
StyleCop version 4.3 was released last tuesday. A short summary of what version 4.3 brings us: Various bugfixes, including fixes for VS integration issues Rules documentation is included and integrated into VS "Show Error Help" New rules, see...
Cool tool: DebugView
Taken from the SysInternals website : The SysInternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information. Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. Whether you’re...