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We all know Microsoft is putting an enormous amount of effort in their cloud initiative called Azure. It started with compute and storage but in the mean time it has grown and more and more products are released in a cloud version before the on-premise version is released. An example is Microsoft Dynamics...
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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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I have installed 64-bit Oracle 11g on my development machine to work on some samples using Entity Framework 4.1 (a.k.a. “code first”). If you ask me why I installed 64-bit version and not 32-bit, I will not answer. I don’t know. Perhaps because Oracle has always associated for me with something big and...
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Here’s a quick Visual Studio tip for you… I frequently search for a specific text in my solution because I need to do something in all places where that text occurs. Today I found out how you can open all the files that are mentioned in the Find Results window. Search for the text you’re...
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The past couple of days I’ve been experiencing some issues with the context menu for my Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2010. It contained scrollbars even when there was sufficient space on the screen to show the menu without scrolling. Searching for that issue I immediately found this blog post on...
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Just a small post to start the new year... and let it be a good one! When opening a XAML document in Visual Studio, it opens in split view by default. This might become annoying when you have a large XAML document, because all the content needs to be rendered before you can get some work done. Here’s...
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A collegue of mine had the following problem: he wanted to write a console application to test some SharePoint code, but whenever he opened a new SPSite, the following File Not Found Exception was thrown: after being triggered about a possible problem with the wrong Target Framework, as Visual Studio...
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This walkthrough covers the migration of tables and primary/foreign keys that is a reasonable assumption when accessing data using ORM. Prerequisites Visual Studio 2010 (should also work with Visual Studio 2008 with .NET 3.5 SP1 applied). Devart dotConnect for Oracle (formely known as OraDirect.NET)...
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Yesterday I remembered two Visual Studio options Sara Ford told about in a presentation of her I attended a while back. Changing them made me happy... :) Zero-impact projects When I have to test something real quick, I tend to create a new project in Visual Studio and scribble some code to test whatever...
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Sometimes it’s the little things that make you love a new product just a bit more. I tend to close stuff I don’t use anymore fairly quickly. Sometimes I even close an Explorer window or an application right after I used it, only to find I need it again in a few moments… We all have...
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I wanted to configure version information generation for some .NET projects. It’s been a long time since I investigated available options, so I searched around hoping to find some simple way of doing this. What I’ve found didn’t look very encouraging: people write Visual Studio add-ins and custom MsBuild...
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While working with Visual Studio 2010, a new feature caught my eye that isn't communicated (strongly) in the "What's new" lists you can find online. As part of the Visual Studio 2010 supports multiple web.config files! Now we can create a separate web.config file for each configuration...
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Last week we published a new major version of the Visual Studio Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide . The effort of creating this document was lead by Geoff Gray. Geoff is a senior consultant in the Microsoft Services Labs in the US that specializes in performance testing using Visual Studio. I...
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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...