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This will be the first post to start a category about links to resources that have helped me with various development efforts. My primary reason for starting this category is to have a sort of blogged favorites listing. I will also discuss how I have applied this information in my own efforts and any additional twist or tweak that I may have added. I hope you find the links and information helpful in your own endeavors! Now on to how to execute a .CMD file directly from Visual ...
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We use Team Foundation Server as our code repository and Team Foundation Server’s Team Build to perform automated nightly builds. We have configured Team Build for check-ins to trigger a new build. After check-ins of a large amount of code yesterday for one of our new SQL Server 2008 Database Projects, I arrived at the office today to find a big Build Failed icon in my task bar notification area from my friend Team Foundation Build Notification (part of the Microsoft Team Foundation...
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If you have ever wanted an easy way to cache JavaScript objects and data in your client-side code just like you would when using the ASP.Net's Server side cache then read this article. Monsur Hossain wrote a JavaScript LRU Cache which my partner found while we were searching for a JavaScript caching option. As I am a big fan of the ASP.Net AJAX framework and the fact that I was extremely impressed with the feature rich cache written by Monsur, which was fashioned after the ASP.Net's cach...
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This is the second installment of my developer arsenal. Be sure to check out the previous article: Developer Arsenal Tool #1: Nikhil's Web Development Helper The tool that I will be profiling today is the IE Developer Toolbar. It has many features that somewhat overlap the features in Nikhil's Web Development Helper. However, these features are ones that I did not profile in the article about Tool #1. This is primarily because I usually lean towards the IE Develo...
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I started the year with a resolution to act on a desire that I have had for a long time, which was to start a blog. Being a developer, I had several requirements set for myself: · I wanted to host the blog myself · I wanted it to be built on .Net framework (Open Source) · Of course it had to be theme driven · And most importantly easily extensible It didn’t take much research for me to find that my blog engine of choice would be BlogEngine.Net. It met and I kn...
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So you have used update panels before. And the same code you may have used in an AJAX enabled website does not work when you put it into a Web Application.
I struggled with this for several hours before discovering that if you have the following line in your web.config file it breaks ASP.Net AJAX.
<xhtmlConformance mode="Legacy"/>
I have not researched the reason behind this but I plan to do so and will provide an update when I find more information.&n...
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So you are trying to modify the Reporting Services CSV export behavior. This article will outline two specific behavior changes: How to turn off exporting of the header record How to change the encoding to ASCII By default Reporting Services exports a CSV file encoded as Unicode and contains a header record. Lets start with turning off the header record. NOTE: make a backup of any config file prior to making any modifications. First deter...
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The first in a series of articles about web developer tools that are invaluable (to me).
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