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Friday, October 26, 2012 12:30 PM

MVC's Html.DropDownList and "There is no ViewData item of type 'IEnumerable<SelectListItem>' that has the key '...'

ASP.NET MVC's HtmlHelper extension methods take out a lot of the HTML-by-hand drudgery to which MVC re-introduced us former WebForms programmers. Another thing to which MVC re-introduced us is poor documentation, after the excellent documentation for...
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Saturday, September 22, 2012 1:18 AM

How to create a new WCF/MVC/jQuery application from scratch

As a corporate developer by trade, I don't get much opportunity to create from-the-ground-up web sites; usually it's tweaks, fixes, and new functionality to existing sites. And with hobby sites, I often don't find the challenges I run into with enterprise...
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Friday, September 21, 2012 12:04 PM

Oracle 64-bit assembly throws BadImageFormatException when running unit tests

We recently upgraded to the 64-bit Oracle client. Since then, Visual Studio 2010 unit tests that hit the database (I know, unit tests shouldn't hit the database--they're not perfect) all fail with this error message: Test method MyProject.Test.SomeTest...
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Friday, April 13, 2012 7:43 PM

Unity throws SynchronizationLockException while debugging

I've found Unity to be a great resource for writing unit-testable code, and tests targeting it. Sadly, not all those unit tests work perfectly the first time (TDD notwithstanding), and sometimes it's not even immediately apparent why they're failing....
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010 5:29 PM

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and things I wish were more intuitive

I've started using Windows Workflow Foundation, and so far ran into a few things that aren't incredibly obvious. Microsoft did a good job of providing a ton of samples, which is handy because you need them to get anywhere with WF. The docs are thin, so...
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009 12:03 PM

Migrating from VS 2005 to VS 2008

I recently helped migrate a ton of code from Visual Studio 2005 to 2008, and .NET 2.0 to 3.5. Most of it went very smoothly; it touches every .sln, .csproj, and .Designer.cs file, and puts a bunch of junk in Web.Configs, but rarely encountered errors...
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 5:18 PM

VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta 2 released, with Go Live

It's official! In one of the first of a few dozen posts you'll read about it, Scott Guthrie announces Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 have been released .
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 12:27 PM

Microsoft Sandcastle

In working with my company's offshore developers, I was tasked with providing them documentation on a set of class libraries we use in our applications. In the .NET 1.0/1.1 time frame, we used NDoc , which, sadly, passed away last year , to turn the XML...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:19 PM

ASPInsiders Summit 2006 - C# 3.0 and LINQ

C# 3.0 (not to be confused with the confusingly-named .NET Framework 3.0 , which includes C# 2.0, not C# 3.0) was the most exciting thing discussed at the ASPInsiders Summit. When I first learned a bit about LINQ at the 2005 summit, I didn't really...
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Monday, August 14, 2006 2:22 PM

Windows service setup projects - Unable to build custom action error

I ran into another under-documented snag upgrading my solution to Visual Studio 2005. It has a Windows service used for behind-the-scenes maintenance sorts of tasks that run on a regular basis, and a corresponding setup project. Now, it's also got...
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