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Just a quick little post today: I got the error "The Path 'path' is already mapped in workspace 'workspace'" when I connected to a new Team Foundation Server and tried to map my workspace today. I had connected to a Team Foundation...
A rather long title for this post, but that’s exactly what happened: when I opened an ASP.NET MVC 4 project with a cshtml view open, Visual Studio would crash with the error messages seen on the right. This would only occur if the first project I opened...
Just a quickie today: when working with Twitter Bootstrap tabs , like I am in my ASP.NET MVC 4 project, you might want to add Next and Previous buttons on the tabs to create something of a Wizard. Here’sa step by step overview of how I did this: Add an...
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>...
Twitter Bootstrap is a... "Sleek, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development." One of the nice things in Bootstrap is you can use icons from Glyphicons . To use these, you can simply use this markup <i...
In the past, when you had some XML document that you wanted to translate into classes we had to create / generate a schema based on the XML file. Next, we had to generate a class based on the schema with an external tool. Not all too user friendly and...
When building an ASPapplication that generates Word documents, it was working fine on the local machine. A windows XP installation with Office 2007. When we deployed it to windows 2008 (64 bit) and Word 2007 we saw that Documents.Open returned null. Other...
When installing SQL Server 2008 R2 on a Windows XP (or, according to the comments, Windows 7) development machine that has been around for quite some time, I got an error stating an unhandled exception occured in the application (see image). The error...
When writing WCF services, most of us find ourselves writing quick test applications. To give you more time to do what a developer should be doing (adding business value to the project) the Visual Studio team added a WCF test client that can help you...
Saving a file from Silverlight using the SaveFileDialog , added in Silverlight 3, is easy. If you’re used to desktop development however, you might find yourself getting a SecurityException with the message ‘File operation not permitted. Access to path...
Here’s a quick Visual Studio tip for you… I frequently search for a specific text in my solution because I need to do something in all places where that text occurs. Today I found out how you can open all the files that are mentioned in the...
Just a small post to start the new year... and let it be a good one! When opening a XAML document in Visual Studio, it opens in split view by default. This might become annoying when you have a large XAML document, because all the content needs to be...
Although the feature has been around since ASP.NET 2.0, I still meet people that don't know and/or use app_offline.htm. Do you know (and use) the feature...? When working on an ASP.NET web application, you should notify your visitors in a decent way...
Because we were still using an old Visual Studio 2005 solution which included a Web Site project, it was time to upgrade. We upgraded our Visual Studio 2005 solution to Visual Studio 2010 (and .NET 4.0), converted the Web Site Project to a Web Application...
Yesterday I remembered two Visual Studio options Sara Ford told about in a presentation of her I attended a while back. Changing them made me happy... :) Zero-impact projects When I have to test something real quick, I tend to create a new project in...
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