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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

EXPORT From Visual studio command prompt, issue the following command to export your work item type. C:\>witexport /f "c:\BugWIT.xml" /t myservername /p mytfsprojectname /n "Bug" /exportgloballists Work item type export complete. IMPORT - Validation First validate the xml file, using the validate switch C:\>witimport ...

http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/000286.html Hack #1 - Stopping Team Explorer from connecting on Visual Studio 2005 Start-up Add a DWORD value called "AutoLoadServer" under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\TeamFoundation.  Zero means do not reconnect automatically. I first read about this setting over at Tim ...

Change the old server name to the new one in the following places in order to rename a virtual PC that’s acting as a Team foundation server…Registry changes1.     HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\Secure\ConfigDb 2.     ...