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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, ...

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 ...

On my current project I wanted to do a little pit stop after our 1st sprint to ensure that the solution was running as optimally as possible. We’ve fleshed out the solution structure and have pulled together all the core pieces of technology – so within Visual Studio, the solution looks like: Solution ‘MyApp’ +---Data |   ...

xmlDocument.SelectNodes with xmlns="..." Spent most of today wondering why I couldn't update a connection string in a web.config file using xpath which had the default namespace for xmlns  defined at the root of the config file. e.g. <configuration ...

I found more things to do with sandcastle after part 1 and part 2. Here's a trick that made the sandcastle build simpler. The basic problem is that sandcastle must run after all the binaries are built by projects in a solution (so that it can read those binaries), but before the WiX installer is built (so that the sandcastle output ...

Further to my last post on sandcastle in TFS builds, I wanted to update on the complications that have happened in the last week.  Sandcastle docs and Wix installers.Our installer, built in WiX v3, acts as a project inside the solution and builds last, rolling up the output of the other projects into an MSI file. The sandcastle action ran ...

Sandcastle is a tool from Microsoft to generate documentation as help files from the XML comments in your c# (or vb.net) code.The latest version is the September 2007 CTP, announced here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/archive/2007/10/02/announcing-september-2007-sandcastle-release.aspxSandcastle has a reputation as being not release quality ...