Posts tagged with development
Using EF 4.3 Code First Migrations with Sql Server Compact 4.0
How to enable EF 4.3 Migrations to work with Sql Server Compact
Bulk load items to a EF 4.1 Code First DbContext
I have some logic to import data (from an Excel file) into the database using EF. var configurations = data.LoadConfigurations(configurationsExcel, componentTypes);
foreach (var config in con...
Razor View Engine & Unicode?
Updated:The connect bug for this has been resolved, it is not a razor view issue. Just as there seems to be some commotion about unicode and President Obama, I stumble on my own little unicode is...
Simple WCF Ria Services EF 4.1 Scaffolding
Update: Colin Blair has kindly taken over the Scaffolding support, for the latest go get RiaServicesContrib.EntityFramework.Scaffolding. Since the WCF Ria Services team completed their support fo...
Alternative way to fix the May-Nov 2011 TFS VPC for the Low Disk Space issue
As I was working with the awesome Visual Studio 2010 VM created by Brian Keller, it just recently expired and found that the new released ‘edition’ that will expire Nov 2011 had a problem with low...
TFS Power Tools - Process Template Editor - Validation Error: The description property is required.
I was customizing a Process Template and had customized a few thing directly in the xml files. I then used the Team Foundation Server Power Tools Process Template Editor to modify a few other se...
IE9 is not updating Silverlight Xap file?
The ‘beauty of the web’ is giving me problems with Silverlight 4 applications. I am publishing a new version of the application to the webserver, but IE9 is refusing to download (or even check?) f...
Happy belated SharpDevelop
SharpDevelop has turned 10, congratulations! I still find it amazing that such a project exists, has existed and continues to exist. I hardly find the time to update my blog, let alone spend time...
How to improve MSDN/Visual Studio Documentation
Given some of my 'feelings' about how we learn about new technology, as written in the previous post, I felt the need to fill in the Visual Studio Content Survey. MSDN is often the first st...
The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks.
When one of the principal authors of this blogs' engine* writes a book about ASP.NET, I just feel the need to plug it. I haven't read a line in it and yet I have confidence that this is a usef...
MSDN Evening: Introducing Microsoft XNA Express
MSDN Evening: Introducing Microsoft XNA Express
Last week, I went to this event, and I must say it is quite a different type of event I would normally go to. But being the standard geek that I ...
My Visual Studio Add-ins
Visual Studio.NET 2003 SQL Assist Intellisense for SQL Server. GhostDoc Easy (auto-)generate the XML comments in code. CR Documentor Live preview of XML Documentation TestRunner Smooth int...
VS 2005 Keyboard shorcuts
I have created my onw simple cheat-sheet using some Print-Screens and Mspaint, but these 'official' ones are much nicer: Free: Keyboard Shortcut Reference Posters for Visual Studio
Also the .NET...
Visual Studio 2005 SP1
I just had a co-worker, actually a used-to-be technical manager, ask me if there is already a Service Pack for VS2005. The blog to watch was (is?) the DDCPX Team Blog, but the latest news there is...
C# and static constructors
Well, I found out something (the hard way, banging my head against the desk) about C# and static constructors. Luckily Bart De Smet is awesome with this type of problem, so watch out soon for an i...