You would have never guess this by the error message, but "“SQL Server 2008 setup requires .NET Framework 3.5 to be installed” when you have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installed means that you need t
Got this error when logging into a machine that I hadn’t touched in months: “the security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship” Not exactly s
PDC was great this year! Here’s a quick list of my favorite sessions of technologies and products that Social Bookmarking will use soon… Stuff we’ll use this year: Velocity ADO.NET Data Services Vis
Try the following if you get errors when upgrading to SP2 Give explicit (not inherited) Full Control permissions to “c:\program files\microsoft sql server\mssql.x” for Administrators group Delete all
If you are using the Gmail Mobile App on Windows Mobile you may notice that it seems impossible to enter a username and password into the authentication screen. You can actually enter the data, but yo
I was getting this exception earlier today: Test method x threw exception: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Procedure or function ‘sp_get_x’ expects parameter ‘@x’, which was not supplied… I was 10
Along with all the other new features of our recent MSDN & TechNet search release we also created “search” sub-domains for both of the sites. The new URLs are: http://search.msdn.com and http://se
The backslash key isn’t on the default key layout on the Blackjack. Just hold down the “sym” button and a list of symbols (special characters) will appear. Jon
I’m not sure exactly what leads to this issue, but in 2008 SP1 the designer doesn’t always update the codefile after dragging from Server Explorer. Hit F7 from the designer and move (or add) the “usin
Here’s the solution to the: A property with name '[table].[column]" does not exist in metadata for entity type ‘[type]’. issue in ASP.NET Dynamic Data. The links are generated incorrectly for ass
Phil Haack created a very useful HttpSimulator to assist in unit testing code that accesses the HttpContext. I was up an running in a few minutes. Here’s a sample that worked for me. [TestMethod] publ
Great video on the new Date DataTypes in in Sql [T-SQL Enhancements and Date/Time ](http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/5/1/851B0968-0BE0-417E-9DA9-B3A2A6E47A67/NewDateTime.wmv) SQL Server 2008
WebClient will return a Download failure exception if you search the Digg API using an invalid search term. If you search with a valid term, say “microsoft”, then you will have no issues. Search with
I got this error today: “Configuration system failed to initialize” while loading a config file. Looking at the web.config file it wasn’t obvious what the problem was. <?xml version="1.0" encoding=
I regularly use SkyDrive for sharing files with my friends and family. You get 5GB free, the UI is super easy to use and you completely control the permission model on your folders and files. Check i
With the transition of MailMessage from System.Web.Mail to System.Net.Mail there were some mail header casing changes that caused mail sent to Hotmail and Live email addresses to appear as being succe
If you call Single to get an object from your DB and the object doesn’t exist you will get an InvalidOperationException. return this.DataContext.MemberDaos.Single(m => m.MemberID == id); Instead o
If you are using LINQ to insert data with RTM bits you won’t find the Add method on the DataContext post Beta2. Use the InsertOnSubmit method instead.
It’s usually a good idea to seperate Biz Layer Objects and Data Access Objects into seperate assemblies, but when you do that and use LINQ to SQL (.dbml) files the DataContext object default ctor uses
SilverLight 1.0 was released today and Microsoft confirmed that they are working with Novell to produce a version of it for Linux. Great news!