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Here is a little gem that I have come across recently... I have only confirmed this in BizTalk 2006 R2. If you create a receive shape with a filter expression of (BTS.Operation=="somevalue") and your namespace contains BTS. then you will get a build failure similar to: The type or namespace...
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A little snippet that I use from time to time when I need information on how long something takes. Type ‘sw’ (without the quotes) and tab-tab . Installation is easy, just create a file called “sw.snippet” in your %Documents%\Visual Studio 2008\Code Snippets folder and paste the following in the file...
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This has taken us some time; depending on which environment you are, telling Visual Studio 2008 for Database Professionals Edition (or simply DataDude) what user it should use to deploy the SQL scripts, during an automated build. We're working with Windows XP users, Windows Vista users and Windows...
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Hello again, long time no write. I must apologise for my absence, I have been involved in a fairly large personal project which occupied the very little remaining intellectual capability I have left after my day job - not to mention time. What I learned during that time can wait for another time, however...
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Here is a simple way to open a command window from within Visual Studio that is aware of the BizTalk Management Utility (bm.exe). I have found this useful while working with interceptor configuration files. This tip will add the Visual Studio Command Prompt to the Tools menu. Nothing too dramatic here...
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The following are some notes on getting the Creating a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web Part Using Visual Studio 2005 Extensions of the SDK to work. No SharePoint Site exists at the specified URL In the Visual Studio Project Properties, the Debug section contains a setting: Start browser with URL...
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Grigori Melnik announced the February 2008 release of the Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT) and Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX). GAT and GAX can be used to extend Visual Studio and automate development tasks from within the Visual Studio IDE. It's great to see that after a series of CTP versions...
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So I recently updated my XNA project to 2.0 to take advantage of the cool networking libraries and such. However, now I've noticed that game components I add to the component list no longer automatically begin calling their draw methods once they're added. Perhaps previously I was implementing...
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Yesterday I wrote an article on the property snippet in Visual Studio 2008 and that it had changed from Visual Studio 2005. Only a few hours later, I questioned myself if even a few people might be interested in this. Not because of the snippet, but because of the abilities that Visual Studio 2008 and...
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I got an e-mail with the question how to turn off automatic checking for updates, when you're doing a manual check for updates with ClickOnce . Strangely enough I forgot to mention this in my previous article. The above dialog window can be obtained in the properties window of your project (Right...
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Forget about VPC, VMWare and the likes, I finally got it on my laptop! Let's play... Oh, by the way, after I've finished Call of Duty 4. This game ROCKS! Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2008 , .NET Framework 3.5 , .NET 3.5 , Team System
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I really love [wikipedia:ClickOnce], because it removes the necessity to build a web application. In my years as a developer, I can't count the projects that were web based, simply because of the deployment model. And then ClickOnce came around. Now I can't count the times that I've explained...
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I've experienced editing Team Foundation Server builds by hand and I didn't like it. Maybe I'm missing something here, but it's very complex and troublesome. I want some more 'advanced' stuff in my build process, like preparing a build for our test environment but also for our...
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I'm writing some applications and demos for the Summer Class using the .NET Compact Framework 3.5. For one of them I need the internet, but couldn't connect. Some problem about the device emulator that can't connect due to Virtual PC. I've found the solution now and wanted to share it...
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Arrgh, these come out just a day or two too late. But that's life when you're always one step ahead. ;) WF & WCF samples http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2611a6ff-fd2d-4f5b-a672-c002f1c09ccd&displaylang=en&tm Silverlight tools for beta 2 http://www.microsoft...