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Had been getting this recently in our builds, and have finally tracked it down to conflicting versions of the Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common.dll in our project references. This came about as one of our developers was using VS 2010, but the rest were still back on VS 2008. Anyway, I thought I’d blog around how we traced this issue down in the end, ...

Came across this issue on the project I’ve been working on. When resizing a form that contained the System.Windows.Forms.Integration.ElementHost control to host WPF content inside a Windows Forms control, we noticed that the new screen real estate inside the ElementHost was not redrawn at all. Rather it just left a black border around the original ...

A while ago on the project I’ve been working on recently, I was having issues with my development environment which for some reason had stopped wanting to deploy our database project to my newly created sql server 2008 instance. This was on a new build of a machine that I had previously used, but had decided to upgrade the operating system on. As ...

If you see this error when hosting a WCF service under IIS 7.5 on Windows 7, HTTP Error 404.17 - Not Found The requested content appears to be script and will not be served by the static file handler. then you will need to ensure you have the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1 options selected, from add remove programs, turn windows features on / ...

If you have issues whereby the installation of Windows Phone Developer Tools wont install as it says it is already installed, when attempting to install the April refresh, then look here for the solution… Aaron Stebner's WebLog  XNA Game Studio Cleanup Tool User's Guide http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/pages/9544320.aspx

Recently I discovered that the reset window layout menu option in most flavours of visual studio (at least 2008 and 2010), respects the layout that your workspace was in at the time of exporting your environment settings. This is down to the fact that under the general settings tree view node in the export dialog, the Window Layouts option is ...

Recently I had an issue where aspnet_regiis.exe -i was not updating the home directory configuration for my web root in Windows XP SP2. To resolve this I used the following commands, suggested by my colleague Mark Mann, instead to first remove all script maps to any version of ASP.NET from the specified path recursively, and then reinstall ...

See here http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2008/04/29/hacking-visual-studio-to-use-more-than-2gigabytes-of-memory.aspx