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Post-Turkey Day Geek Drippings

The day after Turkey Day, or Fatpants Friday, is a good day to relax and do some light geeking. My Post-Turkey Day geeking included BlogEngine.NET fix on dbvt.com Restored my Sueetie development baseline to YAF 1.9.3 Sueetie Control Panel Membership...

IIS URL Rewrite – rewriting non-www to www

If you’re using IIS 7.0 (or 7.5), URL Rewrite is a valuable tool, well worth installing and using. One common use of URL Rewrite is redirecting http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com.  Many people are doing this for search engine optimization...

Local file access - Silverlight 4

I was successful in setting up my first virtual machine and install Visual Studio 2010 on it. I know I can run VS2010 side-by-side with VS2008, but I wanted to be absolutely sure I don’t corrupt/change any of my projects/solutions. Here’s the first of...

The new content editor WebPart in SharePoint 2010

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Presenting in Europe Next Week

I’m off to Europe next week to do a bunch of technical presentations.  I’m presenting for 5-6 hours in a bunch of different cities, and will be doing talks that cover: ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010, ASP.NET MVC 2, and Silverlight 4. Below are details on the...

SharePoint 2010 Project Deployment Issues in Visual Studio 2010

Recently I ran into the following issue when I tried to deploy a SharePoint 2010 Project in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. In the output window the following message was displayed and the deployment failed: Error occurred in deployment step ‘Retract...

ODBC Logging, IIS 7.5, SQL Server 2008

I wrote an article in 2007 how to setup ODBC Logging on IIS 7.0. There was a post recently in the newsgroups someone wanted to setup and couldn't get it working. My article uses sql server 2005, IIS 7.0. I was able to reproduce an issue on my test...

Visual Studio Talk Show #109 is now online - Spécifications exécu...

http://www.visualstudiotalkshow.com/ Pascal Laurin: Spécifications exécutables Nous discutons avec Pascal Laurin de spécification exécutable. Une spécification exécutable est un ensemble de tests qui décrit de manière formelle et exhaustive le produit...

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 has been released. Download it here. http://ow.ly/FW7t Get quickly upto speed on Visual Studio 2010 with this free training kit from Microsoft. http://ow.ly/FWDU

Extending ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates

One of the new features of ASP.NET MVC 2 is Templates (DisplayFor/EditorFor), Brad Wilson did a series of post which explains how the templates works, Please read it before you continue this post. Although he did an excellent job explaining the...

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