ASP.NET

Technique: Using Visual Studio Team Foundation Server To Create A Deployment Package

2010-09-28T16:06:00.003+08:00

In one of my projects, we have this requirement that every time we need to deploy the application for QA and User Acceptance testing in a separate server, the developers need to create our individual deployment package containing the codes that changed during the development, either to create new features for the application or to fix some bugs. These packages will then be used by the Build

Boy Scout Rule, Bad Code, and Uncle Bob

2010-07-23T11:05:00.005+08:00

I saw a portion of Uncle Bob's presentation here on bad code, and the section on the "Boy Scout rule" (whatever that is) on software development, no matter how funny or crazy it sounds, to me is one of the simplest and better ideas on how we can improve software development. The idea, if I can paraphrase Uncle Bob, is to leave the code better than when we found them. And I realize that the

Timings using SSD

2010-06-14T04:46:00.009+08:00

If you're an ASP.NET developer like myself, you don't want to waste time fiddling with your thumbs while you wait for your compiler to finish its work. We're always on the lookout for things that can help us speed up our work, to give us those extra seconds of performance boost. And one thing that's been a challenge to us is the fact that our processors may be really fast but the bottleneck

Getting dizzy using the Spec Explorer Modelling Guidance

2009-11-10T01:59:00.002+08:00

While creating a sample Spec Explorer application, you have this feeling of being lost. The thing is if you follow the steps of the Modeling Guidance (using the "Author a model from scratch" option), you'll soon get lost since the steps and the sample code are not consistent and continuous. For example, in Step 1, you have this code in the Example section: config Main { action abstract

Spec Explorer - Visual Studio Encountered An Exception

2009-11-10T00:59:00.020+08:00

While I was playing around with Spec Explorer and I hit this error: After this, very simple IDE operations like Copy/Paste are not working. I have to restart Visual Studio 20101 Beta 2. It's getting a little bit frustrating. And the thing is, once the above error was encountered you have to close Visual Studio 2010 using the Task Manager since closing it using it's own window is of no use

Missing "ADO.NET Entity Data Model" Template in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Ultimate Edition

2009-10-25T01:06:00.006+08:00

When I installed the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Ultimate edition, I wanted to know how the ADO.NET Entity Data Model can make me forget my good experience with LINQ To SQL. Unfortunately after much searching, I can't seem to find a way to add it to my project, whether it's a web project or a windows application I'm working on. After a lot of frustration, I reinstalled VS2010 but still

defun

2008-09-18T16:04:00.001+08:00

I used to think it's quite strange how this LISP keyword sounds like. I still do. Does this mean to "remove the fun out of" programming? :-)

"Control cannot be created because Visual Studio cannot find the control’s type in the control assembly"

2007-12-18T20:56:00.002+08:00

I just got a new machine, an Acer laptop with enough bells and whistles to make a developer happy (Core 2 Duo, 2GHZ, 2 GB RAM). As usual I test drive it on a Web Application Project I was working on in VS 2005. The source files came from an old laptop of mine. The new laptop has been painstakingly updated with all the required patches, and Service Packs, both for the OS (SP2 for WinXP) and the

Intercepting Calls to Functions of a Typed Dataset

2006-10-13T15:10:00.002+08:00

One of the things that we need to implement when doing any web project, whether in classic ASP or in ASP.NET, is how to log the calls to the database portion of our application. This is necessary so that we will be able to monitor the SQL statements that our application is executing at run time. This helps in easing up a lot of problems when troubleshooting production code. In my case, I have

ASP.NET TabbedWizard Control (WizardBasePage.cs)

2006-10-07T16:58:00.002+08:00

using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; namespace MSJ.BaseControl { public abstract class WizardBasePage : System.Web.UI.Page { public abstract Wizard Wizard { get; set;} protected void Page_Init(

ASP.NET TabbedWizard Control (TabbedWizardEnumsAndConstants.cs)

2006-10-07T16:57:00.002+08:00

using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; namespace MSJ.Utility { internal class WizardConstants { public static readonly string WebConfigKey_WizardStepIDPrefix = "WizardStepID"; } public enum

ASP.NET TabbedWizard Control (TabbedWizardBase.cs)

2006-10-07T16:52:00.002+08:00

using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; using MSJ.Utility; using MSJ.BaseControl; namespace MSJ.Controls { public abstract class TabbedWizardBase : System.Web.UI.UserControl { protected WizardBasePage _

ASP.NET TabbedWizard Control (Putting It All Together)

2006-10-07T15:40:00.001+08:00

1. Put the ff in your VS2005 web site/application project: - TabbedWizardBase.cs - WizardBasePage.cs - TabbedWizardEnumsAndConstants.cs - alternately, you can download the zip file here in my MSN group. (Unfortunately, you can not upload a file in a blog. Membership might be required to access it) 2. Create an "images" subfolder and put all your images there 3. Add a Web User control (say,

3-Tier ASP.NET Architecture on MSDN

2006-09-14T14:15:00.001+08:00

After reading and playing around with the steps mentioned in Scott Mitchell's excellent tutorial on 3-Tier ASP.NET Architecture (the first one is here), coupled with my use of the Web Application Projects addin to VS2005 (found here), I found out a few tips and tricks along the way. As a summary, the abovementioned series of tutorials discuss steps on how to create the ff: - A DataAccessLayer (