When deploying DotNet applications onto servers, you really don't want to have to install the Microsoft 'WebInstaller'. This 'WebInstaller'' is a download manager and, despite Microsoft insisting you should use the thing by leading you on a merry circular dance on their 'downloads'...
I hear a lot of confusion around Delegates in C#, and today I am going to give it shot of explaining the stuff with easy to understand examples. First things first... I will consciously try NOT to use any technical jargon to explain this concept. So here we go, without giving any technical explanation...
After messing around trying to create a new repository based on an existing one for a colleague, after importing my project directory and downloading from SVN to a new project I started to make some coding changes. All good. However, when I came to submit my changes I got the error ".svn/tmp directory...
In this example I’m going to show how to store objects (instances of a class) in a file that can then later be read again. In this example we’ll be storing the objects in a binary file, in another example I’ll show how to use XML files. But what is Serialization? Serialization is the...
This had me foxed this evening... I had a stored procedure that performed some wacky positioning on a document stored in a database. The detail is not important, except to say that I have a stored procedure that does wacky stuff on some rows, but then returns the 'result' as the row that has...
Sometimes I kick myself for not checking out 'Breaking Changes' when upgrading from one version of a product to another and Silverlight is no different. When upgrading one of my projects from Silverlight 3 to Silverlight 4 I kept getting "The type or namespace name 'ria' does not...
This post is yet to be editied but is like this as a 'note to me!' :-) [Source: here ] Setup the foreign key relationship.. One SuperEmployee can have Many quotes. Then we can refresh our Entity Framework model as we saw earlier and this gets easier to see… Now we need set up the Quotes...
One possible solution to this error from Silverlight when you are trying to connect to a datasource could be the lack of permissions of the IIS user to access the database. Just follow these simple steps to solve the problem. [Source http://codingresource.blogspot.com/2010/01/login-failed-for-user-nt...
I was trying to track down a RIA connection issue and, to take other variables out of the equation I have this simple code running on the main page that loads: // Test data load VSICloudDomainContext Context = new VSICloudDomainContext(); LoadOperation lo = Context.Load(Context.GetProductsQuery()); lo...
If you have ever wondered what Silverlight can do, and if you ever say "wow, thats good" but no source code is provided, then check out https://www.wiki-os.org/ . Every Silverlight developer should veiw this page for a little inspiration. It is one of those cool sites you visit that makes you...
