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Web Development with Internet Explorer
Firebug rocks. Nothing, I mean nothing beats it for debug web pages. But what do you do for problems specific to IE (most notably IE 6) Here are a list of tools I use to help cause telling the user to get a real browser is not a solution
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Visual Basic.Net ain't half bad
There I said it.
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Visual Basic.Net and NUnit Gotcha
I like the NUnit 2.4 Constraint based syntax. So In my new role I am having to implement Unit Testing so I decided on going with NUnit to begin with despite my preference for MbUnit. But once I got started writing my tests, I discover Is is a keyword in VB (I'm more of a C# person, but hey I'm no language bigot). I kinda freak out a little. Did I do something wrong? Forget to add something? Google a bit and still no joy. Then I remember the code examples installed with NUnit and have a look and what do you know? Is is now Iz in VB. Not exactly as clear as Is but you gotta do what you gotta do. So now in VB a Unit Test looks like this
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Web Application Projects and Profiles
So, I'm working on a Web Application Project in Visual Studio 2008 and I realize I don't have a strongly typed Profile object...So I Google around and find that this a Problem in Visual Studio 2005 and that Microsoft didn't fix the problem in VS 2008. Needless to say I was a little unimpressed. But I also found the Web Profile Builder at the MSDN Code Gallery. I followed the instructions here and was away running.