Office 2016 Public Preview Is Now Available
Office 2016 Public Preview – Today Microsoft is expanding the Office 2016 Preview. This means it is available to Office users everywhere in preparation for general availability in the Fall of 2015. (more…)
Writing Faster Code With Visual Studio 2013
Writing Faster Code – I’m sure that many of you already know the following tips. Some of these are probably not even confined to Visual Studio 2013. Nevertheless, I called the article ‘Writing Faster Code With Visual Studio 2013’ because that is the version of the Visual Studio IDE I use. I feel however that this is a nice article to include on my blog, as it will make many of us more productive. (more…)
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code – It has finally happened. Microsoft announced the launch of Visual Studio Code today during its Build Developer conference. Why is this a big deal you might ask? Well Visual Studio Code is a lightweight cross-platform code editor that allows developers to create web and cloud applications that will run natively on OS X, Linux and Windows. (more…)
Rebracer – Save Visual Studio Editor Formatting Settings Per Solution
Rebracer - Today a fellow MVP asked a very interesting question. I didn't think of this before, I must admit. Not until Matt asked it, which got me thinking that there must be other developers out there using Visual Studio that have the same requirement. It boils down to having different…
Ajax Control Toolkit – JavaScript Runtime Error
So here I was on a Friday afternoon with another doozy of an error. I recently needed to make a modification to an existing web application we wrote. The original developer had left the company and I had to take this project over for the change. The forms make use of Ajax, so I duly went ahead and installed the Ajax Control Toolkit via NuGet. I then started seeing the following error: ‘JavaScript runtime error: Unable to get property ‘UI’ of undefined or null reference’. I saw that a modal popup caused this error. I wasn’t too surprised as I had expected some errors, but the solution however did surprise me. (more…)
Exception Thrown By The Target Of An Invocation – Resolved… Sort Of
Exception Thrown - SQL Server Management Studio gave me an error telling me that an exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
Destroying Programmer Productivity
There is much to be said for the programmer that can zone themselves out from all the noise in the office. I used to work with such a programmer. She would sit and code with her headphones on (not uncommon for most programmers), but what made Taryn unique was that she was very good at programming. She had her ‘thing’ down to a T, and would pump out excellent code in copious amounts of C# or Visual Basic on a daily basis. (more…)
Typical Developers Life… in GIF’s (How you feel when…) – Part 2
Typical Developers Life – As you might know from my previous blog post, The Typical Developer’s Life… in GIF’s (How you feel when…), I really enjoy these GIF’s that illustrate a different feeling or meaning to a scene. I decided that it was time to post another one. So here it is, enjoy! (more…)
CodeFluent Entities – A Tool For Developers by Developers
CodeFluent Entities – I love being a lazy software developer, especially when a great tool such as CodeFluent Entities is involved. It is incredible how much control this tool puts in my hands while allowing me to generate code with ease. In this article I will show you how to create your first project and generate your database scripts and data access code. (more…)
Visual Studio 2013 Reference Build Error Resolved
Visual Studio 2013 Reference Build Error – I was recently playing around with some code when I switched my solution configuration from Debug to Release. Suddenly, my builds all failed. There was a warning in my Error List that told me that it could not locate one of my references.
The strange thing was that the project built fine in debug mode. The DLL was referenced and the using statements defined. I couldn’t think why my builds would fail in release mode. The solution wasn’t as straightforward as I would have hoped. It seems as though Visual Studio was hinting at the wrong location. (more…)