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Display NuGet Console Results in a new Window
I caught a pretty awesome tip over Twitter today. One of the annoying things about using the “Package Manager Console” in NuGet is that you’re constantly scrolling up and down the list of results. If...
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Using Table Valued Variables instead of Dynamic SQL
I had a situation today where I have a stored procedure that is structured as follows: 1: CREATE PROCEDURE _Entity_GetByKeywordTypeDateRange( 2: @keyword varchar(255) = null, 3: @typeA bit = 0, 4:...
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.NET File Compression in Memory
File compression is nothing new to .NET. However, in many solutions it requires the developer to establish a file folder which they will write the compressed file to and later read from. This solution...
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How to setup TFS Check-in alerts for specific folders in Visual Studio 2008...
Overview This walkthrough will explain how to setup email alerts in TFS when there is a check-in. Using this method, you can not only select a TFS Project, but you can also select an individual folder....
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Crawling a .netTiers object.
A client project uses a .netTiers data access solution. Some of my recent tasks involved working with the .netTiers layer of the project to perform copying and auditing of the application data. Out of...
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JavascriptHelper–Managing JS files for ASP.NET MVC
After working several years with the Castle Monorail MVC framework, I decided to try ASP.NET MVC to see if it had caught up to Monorail. The transition seemed to go rather smoothly, but one area where...
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Responding to Specialized HTTP Request with HTTP Handlers and Modules
HTTP handlers and modules are a great way to handle HTTP request sent to the server. They can be used to write a specialized image server, a process to handle custom level of security, or a file...
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Remote debugging your deployed code. Visual Studio 2010
Sometimes you can’t run a debugger in a local environment and you have to remotely debug your deployed code. This can be a tricky process and if there is a missed step along the way, can prove to be a...
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MVC4 Makes it Easier to Create Desktop and Mobile Web Applications
Last year I wrote an article that expressed the importance of developing not only desktop solutions but mobile ones as well. Since then it has become increasingly important to present not only to a...
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Dynamically Specifying Entity Framework DeepLoad Targets using Lambda...
Overview A colleague of mine came to me with an interesting issue. Imagine the following three classes are POCO Entity classes: 1: public class Member 2: { 3: public Company Company [...] Blog Post...
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Custom Functions in Microsoft Business Rules Engine
The Microsoft Business Rules Engine (BRE), part of Microsoft BizTalk Server, allows for the creation of rich easily readable business rules which can be applied by a BizTalk solution, or any .NET code....
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Kendo UI Window IE8 Error
While working on my most recent project using the Kendo UI Library I came across the following error when trying to inject html from a partial view into a Kendo UI Window. SCRIPT5007: Unable to get...
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Querying BAM Data using BAM’s Web Services
Our BizTalk Practice has recently embarked on the endeavor of creating a tracking portal for one of our new BizTalk solution accelerators. One of the initial steps for me was to devise a proof of...
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Cryptographic Failure While Signing Assembly While Building BizTalk Solution
I encountered a peculiar error while building an existing BizTalk 2010 Visual Studio solution in a new BizTalk 2010 development environment. Cryptographic failure while signing assembly ‘assembly name...
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MSVCP100.dll Missing When Installing BizTalk Server 2013
A quick post today. While installing Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 today on a fresh Windows Server I received the following error during the Enterprise Single Sign-On Server installation step: “The...
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Utilizing Promoted Properties within Receive Shape Filters in BizTalk
Receive shape filters using promoted properties can provide great flexibility as to what messages your orchestration is subscribed to. Though, that flexibility also introduces some difficulty when...
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XLANGs Object Reference Error when dynamically loading a map in BizTalk
This was one of those very frustrating errors that had a very simple solution. I had an orchestration that was dynamically loading a map using a Fully Qualified Name (FQN) that is stored in BRE. The...
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Introducing the T-Connect EDI File Splitter
A common trend that we have been seeing recently is the similarities in the pain points that companies are often faced with. One of those such pain points is the difficulty in quickly receiving and...
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WCF-WebHttp and custom JSON error messages
I’m currently working on a solution that exposes a BizTalk Orchestration as a RESTful webservice using WCF-WebHttp. Upon successful processing of the message, the service returns binary data for the...
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Using SubVersion Revision Numbers in Build Versions
Having used Team Foundation Systems (TFS) for many years I grew accustom to having an automated build process and the ability to have the Revision number in my binary file versions. Recently I began...
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