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INFO: Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison Chart
One of the greatest resources for examining the differences between all versions of Visual Studio. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc149003.aspx Read More...
Exposing LINQ Generated Classes through WCF
The lure of using LINQ to generate classes and expose them as data contracts through WCF is extremely attractive. The designer-driven LINQ to SQL interface allows for generation of LINQ classes based on database objects (i.e., tables and stored procedures). Read More...
WCF Test Client: Failed Adding Service
When writing your first WCF service in Orcas Beta 2, you might set the service as a start up project and attempt to debug it. The challenge you will face is that the service will start and the WCF Test Client will launch and try to add the service. The Read More...
How to Pass Parameters to a Method on a New Thread
Most of you will find this relatively simple, but it took me a while to figure this out. When executing a method on a new thread, I found it almost impossible to pass the method any parameters. My code looked like below. Method Signature to be Executed Read More...
MOSS Performance Tests
The following URL goes to some recently released Performance Tests for MOSS that can be used in conjunction with VSTS. http://www.codeplex.com/sptdatapop MOSS Performance Tests.zip . Read More...
System.OutOfMemory Exception Thrown in MOSS 2007 In Place Upgrade
When upgrading a SPS2003 installation with an unusually large number of sites, the in place upgrade process may run into a condition where it runs out of memory. The following message will appear in the upgrade.log: [SPWebTemplateSequence] [ERROR] [1/15/2007 Read More...
How to Copy a Data Row from One DataTable to Another DataTable
The long story is in this KB article. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308909 The short story is to use the DataTable's ImportRow method as mentioned in the article. destinationDataTable.ImportRow(sourceDataTable.Rows[i]); Read More...
How to Configure a Server to Address 4GB of Memory or Greater
We were having trouble with a MOSS 2007 upgrade in that it was throwing out of memory exceptions that are common with ASP.NET applications that are running on a server with more than 2 GB of RAM, but the application consumes it all. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/820108 Read More...
Programmatically Retrieve an Image from an Assembly Resource File
As many times as I do this, invariably it slides from my brain and I have to gather all the information I can to do this again. So here it is for my sake as well as others that might have to do this. A good practice for Windows Forms development is to Read More...
Enterprise Library 3.0 CTP Uses Now
The Enterprise Library 3.0 CTP is of significant use to developers even if you don't plan to write code against the 3.0 version. It is based now in GAT and GAX (Guidance Automation releases) and now allows developers to have an integrated configuration Read More...
Great MSDN Search
Might be late with this, but check out the AJAX auto complete search from MSDN. http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/search/refinement.aspx Read More...
ASP.NET Control Registration Simplicity
Scott Guthrie has done it again and talks to us about how to register controls for pages in a web application one time instead of on each page. Trick- How to Register User Controls and Custom Controls in Web.config Basically, instead of this: <% Register Read More...
Load Testing SQL Server Reporting Services using Visual Studio 2005
Here is a great article on how to leverage the unit testing engine built into Visual Studio to test SQL Server Reporting Services. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/VS05PLTSQL.asp Read More...
ClickOnce Community Resource Kit
Deploying a ClickOnce Applicaiton or asked by your manager to determine what its all aobut? Being faced with IT infrastructure groups who are baging down your door to determine what will be required in order to deploy a ClickOnce? Is your manager asking Read More...
Special Characters in C#
This is just for my own usage (or whomever else finds this useful) \n New line \r Carriage return \r\n Carriage return—new line \" Quotation marks \\ Backslash character \t Tab Read More...
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