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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

A colleague of mine this week showed me his code coverage as being over 94% for his production code, which impressed me so much, it spurred me on to ensure that all code paths in my code from now on go blue instead of red when testing with Team coverage, using the Test driven .NET addin for visual studio 2008. Not sure what I'm on about, then ...

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 ...

If you're copying from specs where the BA has the replace hyphens with dash setting selected in Microsoft Word (which is checked by default), then be careful if you copy that generated dash character into your .master page file. I've found today when you hit save on the – (Alt + 0150 in notepad) character in a .master page file ...

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil.exe /DesignMode /u /ShowCallStack /Configuration="C:\Data\Merrick\Projects\Data Access Guidance Package\Data Access Guidance Package\Data Access Guidance Package\bin\Debug\\Data Access Guidance Package.xml" "C:\Data\Merrick\Projects\Data Access Guidance Package\Data Access ...

Symptom  Aspnet_compiler.exe fails to produce any content apart from the PreCompiledApp.config and the Bin folder. Reason  When you save a solution containing a web project (file based), it sets the physical path property Debug.AspNetCompiler.PhysicalPath for the aspnet_compiler. If you then subsequently save your ...

24/01/2012 - Have added an update at the bottom of this article today, as it turns out that for Simple Enumerations this is not required by the DataContractSerializer. In order to pass Enum values around to your WCF service operations, then you must put [ServiceKnownType(typeof(Enum))] attribute on the service interface contract, and also add ...

In Visual Studio, you can use the find and replace utitlity in regular expression mode, with the expressions below to turn code such as this...        [System.Runtime.Serialization.DataMemberAttribute(EmitDefaultValue = false, Order = 0)]         public ...

The following code will get the correct database and server name for the Team Foundation Server Work Item Tracking database. Note in the call to GetRegistrationEntries you can use any one of the following ...