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After installing Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010 on my laptop, I ran into the well-known message “The project location is not trusted”. I thought all I had to do was follow the instructions in this MSDN article to get my development share to be trusted...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Because I stopped working at Avanade and started my own company (this web site is under construction and in Dutch), I had to buy and install a new laptop. Everything went great and I was up and running in half a day. Or should I say half an evening.....
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...
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...
When you want to implement a custom stsadm for SharePoint, all you realy have to do is implement the Microsoft.SharePoint.StsAdmin.ISPStsadmCommand interface. Because I develop on a machine with no SharePoint installed, I (only) copy the assemblies I...
While writing a custom stsadm command for SharePoint (more on that in a future post) and having to do something based on the command the user typed in, I used ToLower( CultureInfo.InvariantCulture ) on the command string to be able to check without the...
While developing a web application for a friend of mine, I ran into a Visual Studio error message I hadn't seen before: Error connecting to undo manager of source file 'D:\Development\SomeWeb Application\Default.master.designer.cs'. The error...
When roaming the MSDN forums for unanswered questions for me to answer, I come across a lot of questions about any of the following: Intellisense acting weird Intellisense not showing up at all Menu items that are all garbled up Missing buttons on toolbars...
We probably all worked with dynamically generated controls on forms, ASP.NET pages or (user) controls. And I guess we've all written for-each statements to loop through the ControlCollection and filter out all the controls of a specific type, right...
The error I'm getting when setting up an OleDB connection to an Access database* via the Server Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 is 'Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 0'. The screen doesn't...
As a reaction to this article at Peter Ritchie's MVP Blog , I thought I'd give my two cents on having a single exit point for methods. Here we go... When writing code, I always create only one exit point except for the occasional throwing of an...
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