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 When firing up a new Blazor Server App with .NET 8 Preview, the following error was occurring. An unhandled exception occurred while processing the request.InvalidOperationException: Cannot find the fallback endpoint specified by route values: { page: /_Host, area: }.Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.RazorPages.Infrastructure.DynamicPageEndpointMatcherPolicy.ApplyAsync(HttpContext httpContext,

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Download the SDK using Download .NET 8.0 (Linux, macOS, and Windows) (microsoft.com) and install it.To enable projects to target the .NET 8 preview framework, the preview option in Visual Studio needs to be enabled, otherwise the option to target .NET 8 will not be available as shown below when setting up a new project (or trying to upgrade an existing one).To allow .NET 8 Preview to be used

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For whatever a reason a file of directory may get locked or blocked by another process or program. To find out which Process Explorer can be used available at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer.

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Just a record of useful or infrequently used Git snippets: To take all of the changes from the branch to be merged i.e. theirs: File: git-merge-all-their-changes ------------------------- git merge -Xtheirs branch-to-merge

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To bulk modify the encoding of files using PowerShell: File: alter-encoding.ps ----------------------- Get-ChildItem -Path C:\some-dir\* -Include *.ext -Recurse | ForEach-Object { $content = Get-Content $_.FullName $content | Out-File -Encoding UTF8NoBOM $_.FullName #write-host "Encoding changed:" $_.FullName } Requirements PowerShell 6.2.3  References Microsoft Docs

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Microsoft's Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (VWD 2010 Express), by default does not come with a built in unit testing solution. However the ability is there to use unit tests with the Express version as can be seen when creating a new MVC project. Tech spec stuff: Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express, Version 10.0.40219.1 SP1 Microsfot .NET Framework Version 4.0.30319

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One of the features of EF CodeFirst is the ability to automatically drop and recreate a database if the model changes or if the database does not exist, which is pretty useful when just doing development work. In a web app this is done in the Global.asax file within "protected void Application_Start()" as per this post from Scott Guthrie - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/16/

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Some resources to help learn and understand Microsoft's Entity Framework Code-First ORM. Basic Tutorial http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/getting-started-with-mvc3-part1-cs Advanced Tutorial http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-music-store-part-1 Blog posts with further hints and tips http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/16/code-first-development-with-entity-framework-4.aspx Update

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An ISO image (International Organization for Standardization) is an archive file (also known as a disc image) of an optical disc, composed of the data contents of every written sector of an optical disc, including the optical disc file system. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_image 08/03/2011 Basically an ISO image, in layman's terms, is the file on a CD-ROM or DVD. ISO

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This is really just a reference of .NET Content Management Systems (CMS) to work through and evaluate for various projects. Of course client requirements need to be factored in, such as ease of use for the client as ultimately they will be the end user, along with development, customisation, both skinning and dev-wise, and how well supported the system is and the size of the community around it.

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A recent project needed to get on-line quickly, easily, cheaply and with minimal effort. The site had to be able to be administered easily by non-tech types and also contain a few features such as a blog, contact forms, the ability to include custom HTML for Twitter feeds, PayPal, sharing links, etc., etc. http://www.weebly.com A number of options would fit these parameters, and

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After some waiting around since goo.gl went live and became available to the general public in September 2010, the API has finally been released this week. Documentation can be found at http://code.google.com/apis/urlshortener/overview.html and a "Getting Started" guide can be found at http://code.google.com/apis/urlshortener/v1/getting_started.html There has been eager anticipation waiting

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Below is just a quick and simple function to convert a short string to proper case. It's not the most efficient but will do its job for short strings. The first character of the string is converted to upper case, subsequent characters that are preceded by a space are converted to upper case. e.g. "this IS A TEST sentence. followed BY ANOTHER." will be changed to "This Is A Test Sentence.

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The following SQL function will remove and strip all non-alphanumeric characters from a string. CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fncRemoveNonAlphanumericChars](@Temp VarChar(1000)) RETURNS VarChar(1000) AS BEGIN WHILE PatIndex('%[^A-Za-z0-9]%', @Temp) > 0 SET @Temp = Stuff(@Temp, PatIndex('%[^A-Za-z0-9]%', @Temp), 1, '') RETURN @TEmp END Example: SELECT dbo.fncRemoveNonAlphanumericChars('abc...

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Not really as alarming as the post title suggests but a post from Trend Micro's blog highlights a few surprising and a few unsurprising dangers on the internet from 2010. Trend Micro's blog: http://blog.trendmicro.com/ Original post: http://blog.trendmicro.com/2010s-most-dangerous-list/ In summary: Riskiest hardware: German ID card readers Riskiest website software: Wordpress Most

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If you're a Google Website Optimiser user then you've probably already received and read the email below. If you've not, but do use Google Website Optimiser, then you may need to update your code to prevent an XSS attack. There's no mention of the fix or issue on http://websiteoptimizer.blogspot.com/, but in the interests of getting people up to speed as quickly as possible here is a copy

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Finally I've updated my own little piece of internet real estate. It's only taken 7 years to get round to it. As fun a project as it was, developing my own ActionScript 1.0 3D engine all those years ago, the old site (www.uk79.com) is a little dated now to say the least, with an entrance page, recommendations for processors and screen resolution, total neglect for accessibility and search

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A bit of old school SQL Server 2000 stuff that I had to delve in to, to resuscitate a dying database using sp_who2. Running the command sp_who2 gives details of the current sessions, users and processes running in an instance of SQL Server. It's an undocumented version of the sp_who command (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174313.aspx) but sp_who2 gives a bit more info as to what

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My better half forwarded on a link to me today, and now I have seen something that has made me question my future career on the web. I just don't think I can compete at this level and will have to retire to a life of solitude on a remote island devoid of all technology. http://superior-web-solutions.com/ Just one example from their portfolio: http://industrialpainter.com/ Now I'm not

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Adding HTML 5 to the choice of target schemas in Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (VWD 2010 Express) is fairly straightforward, thanks to a download from Mikhail Arkhipov which can be found on the Visual Web Developer Team Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdevtools/archive/2009/11/18/html-5-intellisense-and-validation-schema-for-visual-studio-2008-and-visual-web-developer.aspx. Download the

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The "semantic web" as a theory has been around for ages and I remember working with people, a decade ago, who were investigating how to build a semantic web. The semantic web, a term coined by Sir Tim Berners-lee, is a vision that would allow automated agents and software to access the Web intelligently, via machine-readable metadata embedded within content. There are a number of standards,

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So the time has come to move to a more advanced blog engine for my blog. blogger.com, Google's blogging service, has served me well. It's incredibly easy to use and to get started with, along with having some great features such as inbuilt stats; however now I need a few more advanced features and greater control over the blog. There's a vast array of blog engines out there, some free, some

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http://www.iia.ie/ As part of my work I ended up at the Irish Internet Association's conference "8 Ways to Sell More Stuff" at the Davenport Hotel in Dublin, last Thursday. http://www.iia.ie/news/item/1627/iias-upcoming-conference-8-ways-to-sell-more-stuff-is-a-load-of-pants/ As a developer I wasn't expecting to learn too much from a conference about selling and online business, but then it's

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Bing, Microsoft's search engine, comes with a few tools for webmasters to track their websites' stats. These tools are in no way as advanced as Google Analytics, but do let you see how a site is being crawled and indexed by Bing, and also allows for better control of submitting sitemaps to Bing. Setting up Bing tracking and statistics for Blogger, Google's blog publishing service, is pretty

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There are hundreds of URL shorteners around these days such as bit.ly tinyurl.com moourl.com tiny.cc and ow.ly with the bigger websites even creating their own URL shortening services. Now Google have stepped in to the ring with their own URL shortening service, goo.gl. Although goo.gl URLs have been appearing in Google products for some time, they have only just released a website for

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