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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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At the moment I'm working on integrating the great Pipeline Component Wizard by Martijn Hoogendoorn into the BizTalk Software Factory . I decided to use a T4 template to get the job done. T4 templates are very powerful and easy to write (but hard to debug, as I found out). This post is dedicated...
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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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Scott Hanselman refers to this internal tool he helped get it out from Micrsoft very cool, check it out at Scott's post or download from here .
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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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In an earlier post I wrote about Microsoft researching possibilities for BizTalk Server 2006 supporting the latest Windows, SQL Server and Visual Studio releases. Today I read a blogpost by Richard Seroter who writes about a new release of BizTalk Server 2006 marked as R3 is scheduled for the first half...
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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 Complete toolbars missing Keyboard shortcuts...
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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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Yeterday I installed Windows Server 2008 Standard onto my "web/file/print/email/media server" at home. Installation went super smooth, configuration was quite intuitive. After I installed all components and the basic configurations were done I tried to setup some of my websites. The problems...
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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...
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This is more or less a note to self because I probably will run into this again. Today I was cleaning up the code tree in TFS and found a project that could be deleted. Unfortunately the developer left the company leaving a file checked out. With the Source Control Explorer it wasn't possible to...
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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 blog in this post . Taken from Scott's post:...