Some quick notes on the basics. I’ll try to follow this up with another post soon on some of the particulars. Creating a new configuration: Build -> Configuration Manager In the drop down of current configurations, go all the way to the bottom and select “Add new…” You can choose to copy settings from an [...]

After including a control from the ASP.Net AjaxControlToolkit I got this error: Microsoft JScript runtime error: AjaxControlToolkit requires ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 scripts. Ensure the correct version of the scripts are referenced. If you are using an ASP.NET ScriptManager, switch to the ToolkitScriptManager in AjaxControlToolkit.dll. I believe there are many other problems which can cause this [...]

I have been developing a strategy for deploying an ASP.Net Web Application (Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5) to staging servers, and to production.  In the process, I have encountered 3 products from Microsoft that almost sound synonymous to the untrained ear, but are very different and are designed for completely different purposes.  I wish that [...]

Each time a new project is started, there is always a discussion (or there should be!) of what guidelines should be used in design, naming conventions, etc. I typically like to defer to the standards given by the company that creates the language, and then define any differences. For the case of C# and .NET [...]

I haven’t used the Team Suite of the Visual Studio projects, so I can’t speak to their effectiveness, but it seems that Microsoft has obviously shifted their focus there instead of trying to further the Visual Source Safe product line. The release of Visual Source Safe 2005 was a token release at best. It supposedly [...]

Sometimes you have a library running outside of your traditional debug mode, but would like to call into it with a debugger. I specifically ran into this with a custom installer dll called by a custom action in my MSI. The following code will allow the process itself to request debugging. Then you can specify [...]

For a project at work we were building deployment projects for some fairly large web applications. 300-600 MB after compression on disk. When the deployment project would build, it would fail with the following result: “ERROR: Could not find file ‘xxxxx.xxx ‘Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.’” After googling around, I found [...]