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I recently setup my first continuous integration build server using JetBrains’ TeamCity product, and it couldn’t have been much simpler. However I kept running into an issue with my test projects whenever I was using NHibernate or SQLite (very useful...
I’ve been playing with Visual Studio 2010 Beta a little and one of my favorite new features (and there are many) is the new web.config transformation feature. Web.config transformations are setup so there is one configuration “delta” for each build configuration...
I recently setup my first project ever in CodePlex and naturally I am very excited about its tight integration with TFS since my group uses TFS internally for source control as well. Connecting to CodePlex through the Visual Studio Team Explorer...
When working in on a fresh Visual Studio 2008 SP1 install I needed to use TFS (as always) so I installed the TFS Team Explorer client from the TFS disk and I kept getting the following error whenever trying to view/edit Work Items: Could not load type...
In any project where you use an ORM you often have all of your domain classes inherit from a common base class. Among other things, your base class often contains your identity property. Mine has a protected IdT (this is the Id type) field...
ASP.NET MVC comes with a UrlHelper class in the System.Web.Mvc.Controller.Url namespace, which you can access through the Url property of any controller. This provides some handy methods to get the url of an action or route, among other things. ...
I recently ran into a scenario where I needed to have a submit button exclusively run some client code, which is pretty common and usually handled by having some DOM element call an onclick method that does the work. However, there was quite a bit...
Exporting a SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 (SSRS) Report Directly to PDF/Excel is a handy way of generating high quality reports without being stuck to using the ReportViewer interface. Sometimes the ReportViewer interface is an unnecessary step,...
When I was converting untyped data values from a SQL database into a custom Business class, I realized that I have to take a special precaution when casting possibly null values. If you try to cast DBNull to some type, you will get an InvalidCastException...
Creating a Custom Code Snippet is pretty easy to do -- you just fire up your favorite text editor, write some XML, and save the results in a *.snippet file. If you use Visual Studio as your text editor, you can even get some XML Intellisense, which is...
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