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In my other blogs entries I mention that I have been looking into building a Team Foundation Server Data Warehouse Adapter.  After I got my initial proof of concept version working, I started to extend it to get a list of available builds from TFS and then import the output of Source Monitor – a popular free code metrics tool. Now I must ...

Recently I had an issue where aspnet_regiis.exe -i was not updating the home directory configuration for my web root in Windows XP SP2. To resolve this I used the following commands, suggested by my colleague Mark Mann, instead to first remove all script maps to any version of ASP.NET from the specified path recursively, and then reinstall ...

As mentioned in a previous blog I would like to explain some of the steps I took to get my custom data warehouse adapter to work.  I am going to start from the beginning just so that I have an easy starting point.  The code I show here was based upon my POC and written in C#. 1. Create a new C# Class Library project in Visual ...

See here http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2008/04/29/hacking-visual-studio-to-use-more-than-2gigabytes-of-memory.aspx

A colleague of mine this week showed me his code coverage as being over 94% for his production code, which impressed me so much, it spurred me on to ensure that all code paths in my code from now on go blue instead of red when testing with Team coverage, using the Test driven .NET addin for visual studio 2008. Not sure what I'm on about, then ...

xmlDocument.SelectNodes with xmlns="..." Spent most of today wondering why I couldn't update a connection string in a web.config file using xpath which had the default namespace for xmlns  defined at the root of the config file. e.g. <configuration ...

If you're copying from specs where the BA has the replace hyphens with dash setting selected in Microsoft Word (which is checked by default), then be careful if you copy that generated dash character into your .master page file. I've found today when you hit save on the – (Alt + 0150 in notepad) character in a .master page file ...

http://www.strangelights.com/blog/archive/2004/06/10/148.aspx Looks like you have to call .NextResult() on a reader before a SQL RAISEERROR will throw an exception in the .NET client code. This issue manifests itself in the Microsoft web service software factory in the Repository.cs class file, for the implementations for Find and FindOne. The ...

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil.exe /DesignMode /u /ShowCallStack /Configuration="C:\Data\Merrick\Projects\Data Access Guidance Package\Data Access Guidance Package\Data Access Guidance Package\bin\Debug\\Data Access Guidance Package.xml" "C:\Data\Merrick\Projects\Data Access Guidance Package\Data Access ...

Symptom  Aspnet_compiler.exe fails to produce any content apart from the PreCompiledApp.config and the Bin folder. Reason  When you save a solution containing a web project (file based), it sets the physical path property Debug.AspNetCompiler.PhysicalPath for the aspnet_compiler. If you then subsequently save your ...