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Another Nice DevExpress CodeRush Refactoring

Peter Kellner — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:42:26 +0000

For the last few days, I’ve been using DevExpress CodeRush and am finding some very useful refactorings. Many I’m not blogging about, but there are a few that I really like. In this post, I’m going to show just two of those refactorings that have been making my code much nicer and easier to write. [...]

A Handy Refactoring with CodeRush (InLine Temp)

Peter Kellner — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:34:56 +0000

I’ve recently started using CodeRush with Visual Studio 2010 and am so far very impressed with the convenience it adds to coding. One thing that is very clear is that the creators of CodeRush are real programmers and look very hard for patterns that us developers are constantly doing. As I run into these things [...]

A VS2010 Project Made From Post: How to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Windows Service

Peter Kellner — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:37:33 +0000

MSDN has a very nice article on how to create a windows service that hosts a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. It explains all the details of doing this in a step by step fashion. One thing that I often find missing from these articles is the actual Visual Studio project that I can download [...]

Adding Speakers Page Template With Converters In Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Article 5 of 7)

Peter Kellner — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:20:35 +0000

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Adding a Navigation Page to a Silverlight Business Application Template (Article 4 of 7)

Peter Kellner — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:16:49 +0000

Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 [...]

I Love FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies!

Peter Kellner — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:47:51 +0000

For the past couple years, I’ve used a product called FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies to automate my build processes. Since I’ve been building web sites (about the past 5 years or so), one of the biggest hassles is maintaining them. That is, updating the databases, deploying the web site, automating backups, etc. I’ve [...]

Visual Studio 2008 Show All Files Does Not Always Work For Me

Peter Kellner — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:30:24 +0000

Not sure how many times I’ve pressed the “Show All Files” menu choice on a Visual Studio 2008 Project and nothing happens. Well, I think I have finally found the pattern. My guess is that you actually have to be clicked on the solution itself for the Show All Files to work. [...]

How to Automate a Simple Deploy Using DataDude (Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition)

Peter Kellner — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:38:15 +0000

Not sure why this was hard, but I wanted to make a trivial command file to deploy my database (or any change to it). For those of you that don’t know the DataDude project, I have to say it’s one of the coolest tools that has come out the Microsoft Visual Studio Team for a [...]

Awesome Scrum Developer Training coming to Silicon Valley Microsoft Campus

Peter Kellner — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:02:34 +0000

Several years ago, I was invited to a special showing of what was going to be the new SqlServer 2008 database in San Francisco. I had expected a sales demo but was hugely surprised by the quality of the presenter and his deep understanding of issues facing real developers like us. Over the years, I’ve [...]

Some Really Cool LINQ to Help Performance and Show Line Thickness

Peter Kellner — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:49:55 +0000

I’ve done a bunch of Lat/Long type mapping programs over the years and one of the problems always ends up around performance. A common problem is that you keep redrawing the same line over and over and over. The pixels you are drawing don’t get any darker so all you are doing is wasting time. [...]

How to Disable Edit/Insert/New Buttons in DetailsView or GridView (ASP.NET 2.0+)

Peter Kellner — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:27:24 +0000

So, this is kind of embarrassing, that it took me a while to figure this out. I have not been doing pure asp.net server control programming for a while, but I figure since it took me a while, maybe there is someone else in the same boat. So, you have a GridView or DetailsView [...]

A New Book on Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Server

Peter Kellner — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:03:41 +0000

William Bartholomew just published a new book on MSBuild and TFS. There is a great forward by Richard Hundhausen (Famous TFS Author and top MS consultant). I personally don’t use TFS yet, but I do use MSBuild and plan on using it more extensively for web deployments going forward. I have not yet [...]

First Experience with Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition, I love it!!!

Peter Kellner — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:06:11 +0000

As a developer who has spent much of my life doing DBA type work, I really appreciate the simplicity and elegance of what Microsoft Visual Studio Team has put together with the Database Edition and can be seen for sale here as the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN Download – Download Direct from [...]

Logging your Sql with LINQ Update Commands. Simple Logging to your Visual Studio 2008 Debugger Output Console

Peter Kellner — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:13:34 +0000

So, you want to do an update but are wondering what the hec LINQ is doing. Turns out it is really easy. All you have to do is run in the debugger and add the Log option to your data context. Here is an example: DataClassesGeneralDataContext db3pLogicContext; db3pLogicContext.Log [...]

LINQPad is Totally Awesome at Testing and Writing LINQ Queries

Peter Kellner — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:25:56 +0000

http://www.linqpad.net/ – Use with Microsoft .Net for building Query type expressions with LINQ I’m not a wizard at writing LINQ expressions so I often find myself in Google looking for something similar to what I want, then I put it into my application and run it. This has worked pretty well, but it takes [...]

How to find your temporary asp.net executing assemblies location

Peter Kellner — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:22:46 +0000

Seems, I keep forgetting where the temporary files asp.net uses. The reason it’s nice to know is sometimes you may want to open them with Reflector to see the generated code. Also, sometimes, you want to delete those files because asp.net is confused and is reusing old ones. So, here is the magic lines of [...]

Building High Performance ASP.NET Web Applications Downloads

Peter Kellner — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:44:21 +0000

Downloads for my presentation to BAADD titled "Building High Performance ASP.NET Web Applications".

Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control AdaptersBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 2)

Peter Kellner — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:38:46 +0000

This article discusses the CSS Friendly Adapters and how they are integraged with the ASP.NET 2.0 menu control. It shows the default html created by a sample menu control without the Friendly Adapters, as well as showing the html created using the Friendly Adapters.

What’s New in Visual Basic 9, Beth Massi at Bay.Net In San Francisco

Peter Kellner — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:04:39 +0000

Beth did a great job of presenting new features in Visual Studio 2008 at the Bay.Net Meeting in San Francisco.

Best Practices for Configuring ASP.NET ConnectionStrings and AppSettings in Web.Config

Peter Kellner — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:25:22 +0000

This article shows a good way to manage connection string and appsettings values in your web.config file. It shows how to use include files and talks about how to set defaults so moving to production from testing or development can be less painful