Should you have the misfortune of encountering MS Build warning MSB3268, you might be in for a world of hurt. That is exactly what has happened to me this fine day. The exact problem is: Microsoft.Common.targets(1360,9): warning MSB3268: The primary reference "<assembly reference>" could not be resolved because it has […]
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In case you hadn’t already heard, Microsoft have released a comprehensive set of new web development features and tools designed to enhance rapid web application development in the form of Web Matrix. Today’s article will focus on Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 Express, which is a “light” version of Microsoft’s […]
Coming across my desktop today.. and courtesy of a posting on Slashdot.. comes a very interesting article which documents how Windows Vista and later versions of Microsoft Windows uses network location awareness and the Network Connectivity Status Indicator (NCSI) to determine aspects of your computer’s networking configuration. From the article: […]
So this is a pretty short (but hopefully useful) post to show you how to add to a list of “trusted servers” much alike Internet Explorer’s trusted sites options. In short, adding the address of servers allows the browser to “pass through” your user’s credentials when it tries to resolve […]
If you are migrating projects from previous versions of Visual Studio, you might intend to upgrade the project files to be compatible with Visual Studio 2010, but you may not want to necessarily upgrade to the latest version of the .Net Framework (v4.0) until you have properly tested compatibility. Fair […]
If you’ve ever wanted to have an installation of Team Foundation Server 2010 use a standalone or existing instance of SharePoint Server (2010) then you’ve likely needed to install Extensions for SharePoint on the MOSS server. If, like me, you encountered the following error whilst trying to configure the extensions […]
Hi there. Renamed in the .Net Framework 4.0 from “ADO.net Data Services” to the new – more snappy – “WCF Data Services”, today I’m going to take a closer look at what drives this latest version. If you look at the release notes there are a number of additions (as […]
There are two sites I own which use the very nice BlogEngine.net blogging engine, and over time they’ve been constantly harassed by increasing amounts of spam comments. Usually the sort of nonsensical garbage which is just trying to link harvest or some other mundane and stupid way to boost external […]
If you use Team Explorer (or the TFS client components) and have to configure to connect using a proxy, you might find yourself a little stumped. Fortunately for us former Readify and current Microsoft TFS guru Grant Holliday provides excellent insight into how to solve this problem, via Stack Overflow. […]
Here is a quick guide to creating a bootable USB thumb drive or USB stick under Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 (R2). This guide is intended to show you how to create a bootable USB drive, however it is advice only. Sanders Technology will not be held […]
Hi there. I realise that PowerShell is the next logical expansion which combines the utility of batch/command line interfaces with the power of managed code, but here’s a short entry on using loops in traditional batch scripts (just for fun). On a recent project we wanted to execute SQL scripts […]
Every now and then this was cropping up as a problem for me, but it was particularly random and I really couldn’t figure out why the “Find in Files” functionality of Visual Studio would just stop working for no apparent reason. Finally, I got fed up with this, after a […]
Visual Studio Tip of the Day “Visual Studio will always try to build everything when you run a single project, even if that project doesn’t depend on everything. This choice can be changed, however. Go to [Tools] –> [Options] –> [Projects and Solutions] –> [Build and Run] and check the […]
So for a while I’ve been manually adding items and it finally occurred to me that there must be a faster way to add whole folders to a Visual Studio project. Recently I came across this blog entry – it’s rather obvious and it works. Can’t believe I didn’t know […]
Sometimes you have to wonder how people miss things.. Something simple like: string movieTitle = "Ghostbusters";var movies = from mov in mdb.Movie where mov.Title.Contains(movieTitle) select mov; Fails with a nasty error: "The ntext and image data types cannot be used in WHERE, HAVING, GROUP BY, ON, or IN clauses, except […]