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When installing the Windows Azure AppFabric Tools for Visual Studio (found here ), you might get the error message shown on the right, stating that Windows Server AppFabric is installed and that it is not compatible with this release of Windows Azure AppFabric Developer Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio...
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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 reach goals faster. This is not a very difficult application...
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With this blog post I hope I can save others some time and besides that it is also nicely stored for me in case I need it again. For my current project I’m building some WCF services. One of the requirements is to have a MSI to hand-over to the system engineers for deployment. The setup should: support...
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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 again, but this doesn’t seem to work. I already...
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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 will not be passed to the executable. Do you want...
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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-control-lt-asp-chart-runat-quot-server-quot-gt.aspx
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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 blogpost for the rules Branding change from Source...
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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 need to develop locally. For the stsadm command I...
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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 hassle of differences in casing. When I ran code...
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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 occured whenever I tried to start the (web) application...
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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? I wanted to do the same today, so I started by...
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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 display the way it should be displayed, as...
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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 exception. Most important for me is to always know...
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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 online, but the ones i found were pretty slow. This...
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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 VS2003 to VS2005 had. The answer is pretty simple...