November 2008 - Posts

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Use Build Events to rebuild a Windows Service without having to manually stop/start it by joelvarty

When you are working on a Windows Service and you have it running locally from the build folder, you need to stop it before you can build it.  This can be a real pain when you are building often When you are working on this as part of a solution...
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Microsoft Chart Controls by joelvarty

Here's something I wasn't expecting: Microsoft has released its own chart control. Over the past few years, I have used the ComponentArt chart, Dundas chart and a couple others.  I know that the charting the Reporting Services was derived from the...
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Redirecting without the exceptions... by joelvarty

I was doing some load testing the other year and noticed one of the counters was going off the charts - ASP.Net exceptions. I couldn't understand why my application, which was behaving fine in every other way, was throwing exceptions. It turned out that...
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People posting about Agility... by joelvarty

There's nothing more gratifying than seeing someone else say something about a product you build... As you may know, I work on a CMS product called Agility, and CMS wire has recently been picking up on our monthly iterative updates to the hosted system...
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Javascript IntelliSense FAQ (includes details about css references in User Controls, too). by joelvarty

One of the biggest pain points that I find with Visual Studio 2008 is its inconsistency with IntelliSense (arguably, and ironically, its best feature). In pages and master pages we can get IntelliSense with (properly) referenced javascript and css files...
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Silverlight Databinding – The Observable Collection by joelvarty

If you’re coming from the ASP.Net world and you want to start building silverlight controls, databinding is one those things that works somewhat the same, yet somewhat differently from the standard DataSource, DataBind() world that you may be used...
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