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Disabling Smart Quotes in Rich Edit controls 6 May 2013 | 10:47 am
This one is for future-Sam, the next time I spend 20 minutes searching Google for a solution to this problem. Smart quotes convert neutral quotation marks to typographic quotation marks automagically...
Can’t run Unit Tests with Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 and ReSharper 7.1.2 9 Apr 2013 | 02:29 am
After installing Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, the unit test runner in ReSharper fails to run tests – all unit tests display “pending” status and never complete. This is a known issue with current ver...
Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 .sqlproj interoperability 11 Feb 2013 | 09:47 am
If you’re running a mixed team of developers with different versions of Visual Studio, you’re going to run into problems with solution and project file version compatibility. Theoretically, Visual St...
DataBinding: 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.EntityDataSourceWrapper' does not contain a property with the name 'xxxx' 6 Sep 2012 | 09:07 am
This one’s for my reference, mostly; hopefully I don’t spend hours trying to debug this error next time. The scenario is that you’re using an EntityDataSource to bind some entities to a ListView. Ins...
ASP.NET 4.0, TinyMCE and “A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected” 21 May 2012 | 05:43 pm
A couple of years ago I posted my solution for the infamous “A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client” error when using TinyMCE with ASP.NET 4.0. The solution worked (m...
Self-signing a Windows Server Solutions Add-In Package (*.wssx) 13 May 2012 | 01:50 pm
Certificate signing isn’t a perfect answer for untrusted code, but it does give the user another indication that your Add-In will do what it says on the tin. More importantly, not signing your code wh...
Automating Windows Server Solutions Add-In Package (*.wssx) Builds to Support In-Place Upgrades 1 Jul 2011 | 04:26 pm
The Windows Server Solutions SDK gives us some great new functionality for deploying Add-In packages: A proper upgrade process Signing Client installers that can be automatically applied to any joi...
Windows Server Solutions Add-In Package Project (*.wssx) for Visual Studio 2010 24 Jun 2011 | 04:41 pm
A few weeks ago I posted recommendations for structuring your WSSX cabinet files and installer packages. I also promised to post some magic automation techniques to make building *.wssx files much, mu...
WHS 2011 Add-In Deployment Package Upgrades 31 May 2011 | 07:00 pm
The Windows Home Server v1 extensibility framework missed out an important component; Microsoft implemented no upgrade capability for already-installed Add-Ins. The “upgrade” process required that th...
