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January 2010 - Posts

• Nice formatter for C# code snippets on your blog

  A colleague of mine just showed me how to get nice looking C# code blocks into my blog site. Go into your blog dashboard and go to Global Settings, Title, Description and News. In the RawHeader box, paste in the following: <script type="text/javascript" Read More... Posted 22 January 2010 16:44 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, C# 2.0, Gotcha, Howto

• A simple implementation of INotifyPropertyChanged

  There are many variations out there on this theme of how to keep your code strongly typed whilst implementing the PropertyChanged event of the System.ComponentModel.INotifyPropertyChanged interface. This one I think is fairly simple to follow using Lambda Read More... Posted 22 January 2010 15:39 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments

• Enable other file types handling in IIS 7.5

  To allow different file types to be served up from an IIS 7.5 Virtual directory, you need to configure these in IIS under the MIME types setting, otherwise you'll simply receive a 404 not found exception from your IIS server.   Read More... Posted 20 January 2010 16:23 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Gotcha, IIS 7.5

• Turning off the Windows 7 Firewalls

  Recently I had yet another hassle of accessing an IIS 7 virtual directory on my windows 7 64 bit machine. Turned out that the windows firewall was still on even though I had thought that I'd switched it off. It transposed that there are actually multiple Read More... Posted 20 January 2010 15:03 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments

• Visual studio external tools

  1. Build solution using multi core msbuild option. 2. TFS get latest out of process (note: if new projects are detected as this runs they will have to be reloaded in the IDE)… get *.* /version:T /recursive /noprompt Read More... Posted 17 January 2010 09:27 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments

• Trouble connecting to VPN using ncp-e.com software

  After spending a couple of weeks worrying that I’d have to be plugged directly into my router to connect to my work vpn network, with my Dell D830 Lattitude laptop and Windows 7 64 bit, I finally chanced upon the solution. It turned out to be a device Read More... Posted 15 January 2010 22:04 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments

• How to: Increase your broadband speed and reliability

  For those of you with dodgy slow broadband speed connections today (working from home for example),  you may be interested in a trick I’ve just discovered which has doubled my broadband speed and made it far more reliable.   Recently Rory Street Read More... Posted 13 January 2010 15:40 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments