Visual Studio 2008 Archive

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    System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: Unspecified error

    Posted on June 3, 2009 | 3 Comments
    The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy "For thinking laymen." If you are getting an error like the one below in your ASP.Net application when trying to open an Excel or Access file, you may need to reset IIS. System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: Unspecified error at...

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  • Visual Studio bug: asp:UpdatePanel could not be set on property ‘ContentTemplate’

    Visual Studio bug: asp:UpdatePanel could not be set on property ‘ContentTemplate’

    Posted on April 22, 2009 | 17 Comments
    So, I ran the Secunia Online Vulnerability inspector on my work PC and noticed there were over a dozen missing patches. I ran WindowsUpdate and had to reboot. After rebooting, I reloaded Visual Studio 2008 and my ASP.Net project that I’m working on. I noticed...

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    Keeping a Session Alive

    Posted on April 9, 2009 | No Comments
    It seems like such a simple thing, I’m amazed it’s not part of Microsoft’s whole webform architecture. I would like to keep a user’s session from timing out as long as he/she is still on the web page. Just ping the server, so to speak,...

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  • Are You Sure?

    Are You Sure?

    Posted on March 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Are you sure? How many times have you been asked that question by your computer when you wanted to delete something? [Translate]

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    AJAX Enabled Pages

    Posted on March 17, 2009 | No Comments
    For the most part, I’ve found it pretty easy to ‘AJAX’ify a web page, but there are a few quirks and gotchas. I’ll try to list a few of the ones I’ve stumbled across here. [Translate]

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  • Stupid IDE Tricks

    Stupid IDE Tricks

    Posted on March 9, 2009 | No Comments
    A list of handy VS2008 IDE tips. While editing a document, you can force the IDE to re-indent the current document by pressing Control-K Control-D. [Translate]

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  • Property Macro

    Property Macro

    Posted on March 8, 2009 | 3 Comments
    Frequently, I find myself needing to add a property to an existing entity. Manually typing the property definition is tedious. So, I created a macro to aid this process. Once we move to Visual Studio 2010, this won’t be needed, but until then, it should...

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