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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 Services project a while back to get some shared...
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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 ID to all the ListItem elements that are used for...
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When debugging JavaScript in an ASP.NET MVC (4) application, it is not always enough to uncheck the 'Disable script debugging' checkboxes under 'Tools' - 'Internet Options' - 'Advanced' - 'Browsing'. JavaScript inside a Razor view (a cshtml file) cannot be debugged...
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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>(string param). Because I use reflection...
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With the announcement of BizTalk Server 2013 Beta Microsoft also announced the next minor version of the ESB Toolkit: v2.2 My experience with the previous versions of the ESB Toolkit was that the installation procedure was complex hence preventing people from using it. Microsoft already announced that...
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This week Microsoft released the first public downloadable beta of BizTalk Server 2013, which is scheduled to be released H1 2013. Curious about the changes in the installation procedure, I decided to grab a Windows Server 2012 VHD , Visual Studio 2012 and SQL Server 2012 to create a base setup for BizTalk...
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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 class="icon-fire"></i> get a...
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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 somewhat time consuming. In Visual Studio 2012 you...
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I opened a solution in Visual Studio 2012 on my laptop running Windows 8, when I was presented with the error " The Web Application Project SomeWebProject is configured to use IIS. Unable to access the IIS metabase. You do not have sufficient privilege to access IIS web sites on your machine. "...
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I'm working on some system engineering documentation for my current customer and of course I’m using the BizTalk Server 2010 Operations Guide as a reference for this. One of the tools is the BTSAssemblyChecker tool which is mentioned here " Checklist: Performing Monthly Maintenance Checks "...
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This story starts in December 2008, but I found out only last June….. Back in 2008 Patrick Smacchia of NDepend contacted me via my blog to ask me if I was interested in testing NDepend, but unfortunately I wasn’t notified of his message. Almost 4 years later (!) I came by accident across...
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Every experienced BizTalk developer knows that the SSO store is a good place to safely store configuration information. It is secure, distributed and can be updated without having to dive into configuration files (but too bad the host instances have to be restarted after a change before it is picked...
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More than two years ago I wrote a blog post about deploying WCF services using a Web Setup project. Back then it wasn’t an easy task to get services deployed using it. Especially the UI customization of the installation wizard dialog gave me some headache, moreover because they were difficult to...
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Just a quick one: if you have a textbox with a Calendar (extender) from the Ajax Control Toolkit and an associated PopupButtonID which is an image, the calendar won't close when you click outside the popup. Use an input type="image"or an ImageButton to solve this problem. Hope this helps...
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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 than this, there are no exceptions. The code...