2012-08-08

Solution to the exception: "Updating 'Newtonsoft.Json 4.5.8' to 'Newtonsoft.Json 4.5.5' failed. Unable to find a version of 'Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client' that is compatible with 'Newtonsoft.Json 4.5.5'." when trying to install the twitterizer NuGet package in Visual Studio 2012

I have the RTM of Visual Studio installed, but the WebApi NuGet RTM build isn’t available yet. WebApi depends on Newtonsoft.Json and so does Twitterizer, but there is a version conflict. Unfortunatel

2012-08-08

TechTutorials

How to create a foreign key constraint with the Visual Studio 2012 database tools

The new SQL tools in Visual Studio 2012 are amazing, but still lack a database diagrams features that SQL Server Management Studio has. I use database diagrams all the time to easy create foreign keys

2012-08-08

TechMicrosoft

Microsoftie Perk #6 - Free Drinks

Free drinks is the one perk that most people will already know about, but since it is one of my favorites I couldn’t not include it in my Microsoftie perk list. I have heard that since day one Micro

2012-08-08

TechMicrosoft

Microsoftie Perk #5 - Free Microsoft Certification Exams

The is a post in a blog series I’m writing called "Microsoftie Perks" Microsoft allows all Microsofties to take Microsoft Certification Exams for free. Non-Microsofties pay $150 an exam and

2012-08-07

TechBugs

Solution to "Entry point was not found." in Visual Studio

I got this “System.EntryPointNotFoundException” exception today: “Entry point was not found.” There could be many reasons for this exception. In my case it was because my main app and library app we

2012-08-07

TechMicrosoft

Microsoftie Perk #4 - Charitable Gift Match

The is a post in a blog series I’m writing called "Microsoftie Perks" Microsofties are very generous people and they keep getting more and more generous every year. About 35,000 Microsofties

2012-08-06

TechMicrosoft

Microsoftie Perk #3 - Free MSDN, TechNet and Azure Subscriptions

The is a post in a blog series I’m writing called "Microsoftie Perks" Microsoft gives all Microsofties FREE MSDN, TechNet and Azure Subscriptions. With the free MSDN Subscription comes a f

2012-08-05

TechMicrosoft

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

2012-08-04

TechMicrosoft

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.

2012-08-04

TechMicrosoft

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

2012-08-02

TechTutorials

How not to change your URLs: A look into the 9 mistakes KentwoodFloors.com made with their recent URL change

My wife and I have been searching for the perfect type of hardwood flooring since April and have been exclusively using KentwoodFloors.com. We’ve been sending emails back and forth that go something l

2012-07-31

TechTutorials

Solution to FeedBurner being out of sync with feed, FeedBurner Ping Service

By default FeedBurner refreshes your feed about every 30 minutes, so if you change anything about your posts (title, content, etc) FeedBurner won’t immediately reflect that change. I use my technique

2012-07-31

TechBugs

[object Object]

Could not find an implementation of the query pattern for source type ‘[type]’. ‘Where’ not found. Consider explicitly specifying the type of the range variable ‘[variableName]’ You get this error if

2012-07-30

TechReviews

After 2 months of training I can now run a 5K! A review of C25K, MapMyRun and a few audiobook recommendations.

As I mentioned back in June, I’m training to run a 5K (3.1 miles) using C25K and MapMyRun. It’s great that C25K supports Pink and I found the app very useful, but it’s not exact in how it calculates d

2012-07-27

TechTutorials

How to load a webpage that uses Windows Authentication with HtmlAgilityPack, WebProxy and UseDefaultCredentials

It wasn’t obvious to me how to load an Html doc that requires Windows Authentication. Here’s a quick code snippet that hopefully saves you some time. The trick is to set UseDefaultCredentials on the W

2012-07-27

TechTutorials

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

2012-07-26

TechTutorials

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

2012-07-26

TechTutorials

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

2012-07-25

TechReviews

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

2012-07-24

TechBugs

Solution to "c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\CSharp\Web\MVC 4\CodeTemplates\AddView\CSHTML\Empty.tt(-1,-1): error: There was a problem getting an AppDomain to run the transformation from the host. The process cannot continue." Exception in Visual Studio 2012

This is an easy one. Just restart Visual Studio. Not sure what happened, but I’ll follow up with the Visual Studio team to see if I can find out.