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Friday, May 23, 2008 5:07 PM

SharePoint Intermittent 403 Forbidden Errors

I recently encountered intermittent 403 Forbidden errors on a Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) site. Most of the site would work, but when users accessed certain functions such as uploading a document or adding calendar items, they would receive a 403
Posted by johnwpowell | 17 Comments
Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:25 PM

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Developers

If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek . How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique
Posted by johnwpowell | 12 Comments
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:48 PM

TFS Source Control Doesn't Detect Local Changes

There is something you need to be aware of regarding the Get Latest feature in Visual Studio / Team Foundation Server: it doesn't detect local changes . For example, suppose you check a file into source control: Then you modify the file without checking
Posted by johnwpowell | 5 Comments
Friday, May 09, 2008 1:24 PM

Implementing the "Only Talk to Friends" pattern using the InternalsVisibleTo Attribute

Did your parents ever tell you "don't talk to strangers?" They were trying to protect you, and even though you are all grown up now, that principle is still relevant--to the design of your software, that is. The basic idea is that classes should limit
Posted by johnwpowell | 1 Comments
Friday, May 09, 2008 12:44 AM

Language Changes to Chinese While Writing Code in Visual Studio 2008

I recently experienced what could be misinterpreted as a bug in Visual Studio 2008. While feverishly typing code, the language "randomly" changed to Chinese. Here's what it looked like: Of course it's not a a bug--it's a feature! Left ALT + SHIFT is the
Posted by johnwpowell | 2 Comments
Monday, May 05, 2008 8:00 PM

Team Explorer Window Won't Open Or Is Blank

If recently worked with several developers that were unable to open the Team Explorer 2008 window (or if they did open it, the window was blank). They had pre-release versions of Visual Studio 2008 installed and despite following the instructions on uninstalling
Posted by johnwpowell | 4 Comments
Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:32 PM

TFS AutoShelve: a utility to automatically shelve check outs to the TFS server

Have you ever worked on a team where a developer went on vacation without checking in an important change? Ever known someone that kept a file checked out over multiple days (or weeks) and lost their work because of hard drive (or other) failure? Having
Posted by johnwpowell | 3 Comments
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