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VSTO is Free But Aspose is Speed by Ken Cox [MVP]

I’ve taken over the completion, deployment, and maintenance of an ASP.NET Web site that generates Office documents using VSTO . VSTO’s a decent concept and works fine for small-scale scenarios like a desktop app or small intranet. However, with multiple...
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‘By Design’? BindingFailure - An assembly failed to load while using XMLSerialization by Ken Cox [MVP]

Here’s an issue that cost me several hours and I suspect that there’s something in Visual Studio 2010 – and the size of my solution – that’s to blame. I was quite happily working in the MsmqToWcf example of the WF_WCF_Samples to learn about MSMQ. So far...
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Visual Studio 11 UI Update - Improvements in RC by Ken Cox [MVP]

I see by the Visual Studio Blog that Microsoft has backed out the worst of the darkness in the default Visual Studio 11 interface. Many of the ALL CAPS headings are gone and they’ve even added some colour to the previously monochrome icons. This is certainly...
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A Small World in ASP.NET–NimblePros Acquired by Telerik by Ken Cox [MVP]

A few weeks ago, fellow ASPInsider Steve Smith of NimblePros passed a client to me. It’s a part-time “tweaks and maintenance” gig for a small startup. I was quite happy to take this on. I’m mostly retired and no longer work fulltime but still want to...
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CSS Float: Visual Studio 11 Beta Still No Help by Ken Cox [MVP]

Despite great strides in ASP.NET Design View, CSS float remains problematic for Visual Studio. A simple two column CSS float can be unintelligible at design time. You often have to scroll way to the right just to see where it went. Sometimes I think I...
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Not Happy With the Monochrome Visual Studio 11 Beta UI by Ken Cox [MVP]

I can’t wait for a third-party to come out with tools to return some colour to the flat, monochrome look of Visual Studio 11 (beta). What bugs me most are the icons. I feel like a newbie when I have to squint and analyze the shape of icons on the debugging...
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Fix: 'Unable to load one or more of the requested types' Errors by Ken Cox [MVP]

A long time ago, I reported on an intermittent ‘Could not load file or assembly‘ bug where ASP.NET 4 was encountering a bizarre error on start-up in System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes(RuntimeModule module). I neglected to post a follow-up here....
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EULAs are Fun. Mock Them Mercilessly! by Ken Cox [MVP]

In my previous post about the new, free Telerik JustDecompile beta , I made fun of the license terms that specifically forbade you from decompiling their decompiler. As you might expect, this was a copy and paste oversight and has been fixed in the latest...
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Telerik’s Free Decompiler: Just Don’t Decompile It!* by Ken Cox [MVP]

Telerik has released a beta version of its new ‘always free’ .NET decompiler, JustDecompile . These guys really know their marketing and community support. (Redgate recently disappointed the community by moving the popular .NET Reflector to a $35 paid...
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We Need a Capped Plan for MSDN Azure Benefits by Ken Cox [MVP]

Like many developers, I’d like to play more with Windows Azure.  Microsoft recently improved the MSDN Azure benefits – extending them to MSDN Professional subscribers. The trouble is, the onus is on the subscriber to avoid hefty charges caused by...
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