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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...
One of the most annoying things in Visual Studio (to me) was the fact that complete solutions (solution folders, projects, regulare folder) would be expanded upon opening. And with big solutions, that isn't too much fun. There are macros available...
With the official release of Visual Studio 2008 coming closer and its release on MSDN last november, there are more and more people asking what the impact of migrating from VS2005 to VS2008 will be and if it will have as big an impact as switching from...
As stated on ScottGu's blog in his latest post , the .NET Framework Library Source Code is now available. A detailed blog post about the steps to follow to enable .NET Framework source access in Visual Studio 2008 can be found at Shawn Burke's...
The last weeks have been filled with holidays and introductional days at my new employer . Because of that, I haven't had the time to realy dive into Visual Studio 2008, although I have played around with it since the RTM version was available. Since...
Next to the message in the subject, one of the symptoms we encountered is that although the solution contains some test projects the 'Create private accessor' menu has disappeared. Also, selecting 'Create unit tests...' produces an error...
At my current project we made a project template for Visual Studio for our testers. We added all the references, folders and files a tester needs to add a new system tests project. One of the testers (!) extended our XML generator, which generated XML...
I have lots of games for my Xbox 360 I still need to / want to finish, like The Orange Box and Bioshock. And despite this, I've been working 'non-stop' behind my laptop for the last two evenings to prepare it for Visual Studio 2008, and to...