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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 a bit of an issue today whilst installing multiple machines over remote desktop from windows 7. If you’re on a windows 7 machine then the restart option is removed from the start menu shutdown list. But never fear, Sean’s stuff is ...

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 ...

Thought I'd let you know how I managed to get the Windows 7 SP1 to finally install (it takes a while). At first I had little luck, as it kept saying it was unable to install, and I was receiving this message So then went online to find out how to fix this, and it told me to rund the following troubleshooter to fix problems with windows update ...

  Even though x:Name is a dependency property for a WPF framework element, you cannot the name of the control to a static resource in the code behind file   <Window x:Class="WpfApplication2.Window1"         xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" ...

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 ...

SQL 2008 introduces the new DATE data type, and it is considerable quicker to CAST a DATETIME to this if you’re attempting to just extract the date part from a DATETIME field, than using the old method of SELECT CONVERT(DATETIME,CONVERT(CHAR,GETUTCDATE(),102)) So from SQL 2008 onwards this can now be written as SELECT CAST(GETUTCDATE() AS ...

Today I was attempting to update the template for my document. I struggled slightly as I couldn’t find where the attach template user interface dialog had been moved to. Turns out that it’s under the main button (which you normally go to for File, Save), under the Word options button. Then you have to navigate to Add-ins, and select Templates from ...

Most versions of snoop that I keep coming across have a problem updating the UI dynamically at runtime via the SNOOP property grid editor. Felix Corke recently pointed me in the direction of a fixed version… http://snoopwpf.codeplex.com/ The most recent version 2.6.0, now just works out of the box. No longer do you have 4 versions for the ...

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