It is frustrating when the tools we use don’t do what we expect. Take this one for example, from the Visual Studio 2008 IDE.

When trying to check in code artifacts into TFS (Team Foundation Server), you receive this cryptic error message (Microsoft Visual Studio cannot shut down because a modal dialog is active. Close the [...]

We just began working with the new MVC 2 framework that is now included in Visual Studio 2010. MVC 2 leverages .NET 4.0 and is a commonly used design pattern in other developer communities.
To deploy MVC 2 applications, you just right click on your visual studio project and click “Publish”.

A wizard pops open [...]

Using Logging Application Block provided by Enterprise Library is a common way of logging exceptions in .NET applications.  It’s easy to setup and to use.  One problem I had a while ago was that it worked while on my development PC, but stopped working once it’s deployed.
What I was doing was to use it to [...]

In web application development, we should always think about returning some kind of message to users when an exception is raised in the program.  Sometimes, it can be very specific, while in other cases it can be generic.  A common thought is to capture and possibly handle exceptions where they are raised, re-throw exceptions or [...]

Microsoft Device Emulator is a great tool for testing your mobile web applications without utilizing any real mobile device.  Because it can use the same network that your computer is on, you can use it to test your mobile web applications hosted on development computers or test servers before the applications are published to the internet.  [...]

My customer’s current process of importing data into Siebel database is to use Siebel EIM interface.  The data which needs to be imported will be formatted and inserted into EIM tables (or the staging tables), and then an EIM process will be ticked off in the command line to import the data into Siebel base [...]

Microsoft recently announced the general availability of developer tools for their Windows mobile platform. This article is a brief introduction to the platform and what the next generation of mobile development for Microsoft looks like.
After you’ve downloaded the developer tools installer, you will go through a download process…

After downloading the remaining components, you will install [...]

You may have experienced the problem with FileUpload control in an UpdatePanel – when you hit the submit button, Request.Files.Count always returns 0, even though you had registered the submit button as a PostBackControl and a PostBackTrigger of the UpdatePanel containing the FileUpload control.
In my case, the FileUpload only works when it is visible when [...]

One of the missing features in MOSS 2007 is the ability to recognize PDF files in a document library. It can be frustrating when all you see is a blank page icon instead of SharePoint recognizing the document type properly. This is a common portal issue that is easily remedied with a bit of extra [...]

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