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Microsoftie Perk #2 - Exec Access
The is a post in a new blog series I’m writing called "Microsoftie Perks" Over the years I have sent many emails to Microsoft Execs and I always get a response. Whether I’m looking for money
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Microsoftie Perk #1 - Dogfood
The is a post in a new blog series I’m writing called "Microsoftie Perks" It only took about 3 seconds for me to be introduced to the term “dogfood” when I started at Microsoft back in 2003.
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Microsoftie Perks
This is the index post for my “Microsoftie Perks” posts. I will continue to update this post as I discover new perks. You can subscribe to my blog via RSS here or you can subscribe via email here to b
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How to set HtmlAgilityPack Timeout
HtmlAgilityPack is a great HTML parser library that I often use for scraping. It does web requests on your behalf via the HtmlWeb().Load methods, but doesn’t expose the HttpWebRequest.Timeout property
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How to get a UIHint attribute value from an MVC Razor view
The UIHint Attribute is a great way to pass metadata from a model to a view. I was looking around for a simple way to get the value of the attribute from my razor view. I could be missing something ob
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How to create an MVC Razor view for a generic List property
You have a model that has a property of type List. You write a view and your first inclination is to create a cshtml file called List.cshtml, but that doesn’t work. There’s a trick and it has to do wi
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The Visual Studio 2012 Add Reference Dialog is beautiful!
I cringe every time I have to add a reference in 2010. The dialog is slow, it’s hard to find reference, it’s hard to sort. I absolutely hate it…and I don’t hate too many things. I know there are VS pl
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How to quickly close all documents with one click in Visual Studio by adding a custom toolbar button and custom keyboard shortcut
UPDATE: 2/3/2013 In VS 2012 we now have a “Close All Documents” context menu item on the file header. It’s one more click (right click then left click), but still a good option. ORIGINAL POST: I blog
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Solution to Queries not appearing in Visual Studio 2012 Team Explorer
I’m a big fan of the new Visual Studio interface, but I got a little lost today in Team Explorer. I registered my server, picked my project, but couldn’t see any Queries. ![](/images/blog/3ff5106c
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Solution to "Unable to cast object of type '[type1]' to type '[type2]'." when trying to cast a List to List
Okay, it’s not really a “solution” per se, but more of a workaround to a limitation with generic List objects that has to do with covariance and contravariance. I struggled with this for way too long,
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Solution to "TF212018: Work item tracking schema validation error: TF26085: Unknown constant with id 3675334." when importing a WIT into TFS
If you get this exception: “TF212018: Work item tracking schema validation error: TF26085: Unknown constant with id 3675334.” when calling witadmin importwitd, then your cache is likely invalid. Just
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Solution to "Sign-out isn't complete…" when signing out of Windows Live
This is one of the worst authentication workflows out there. The only way to solve this is to close all your browser windows and go back to the site you were trying to login to. This is an extremely a
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Solution to "This offer is not available" when trying to activate Azure account for MSDN Subscriber...renew your MSDN Subscription.
It is very cool that Azure is offering MSDN subscribersup to $3,700 of Azure Benefits (Cloud, SQL, CDN, etc), but the error message you get when your MSDN Subscription has expired needs more detail. I
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[object Object]
There are many reasons why this error will appear. One of the less obvious reasons has to do with the “Target framework” project level setting. In my referenced project the “Target framework” was set
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MSN is hiring MVC, Razor, C#, jQuery, HTML, CSS web devs
I lead the Tools dev team for Bedrock, the CMS system that runs MSN.com. We are rebuilding the entire app one piece at a time in jQuery and MVC4 and need your help. We ship every other week. We do gat
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How to call the new Azure Marketplace Bing Search API using C#
It took me more than 2 minutes (too long!) to figure out how to call the new Bing search API. The Bing API to Azure Marketplace migration doc is a great resource for learning how to call the new Azure
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aspConf 2012 Speaker Blogs and Twitter accounts: An OPML file for bulk blog feed subscription and a Twitter list for easy Following
There are a lot of great devs speaking at aspConf 2012 and most of them have great blogs and twitter feeds. I want the dev community (including myself) to follow these speakers and continue to learn f
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Solution to the exception: "Read-only application cannot POST" from the Twitter API
1. Make sure your Application Type is set to Read and Write in the Settings tab. 2. After you do step 1 you need to recreate your access token by clicking the button at the bottom of the Details tab.
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How Unstar All Google Reader Starred Items
UPDATE (08/27/2012): I created a custom Google Chrome extension that allows you to unstar all items without having to run any JavaScript! Read more about it here: Unstar All Google Reader™ Starred It
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Solution to "TF26061: [Reference Name] is not a supported reference field name."
TF26061: ‘[Reference Name]’ is not a supported reference field name. I just got this error after copying and pasting a reference name from an email to the TFS WIT Editor. There might be other reasons