I admit to an almost perverse fondness for command line environments. So I decided to jump onto PowerShell as my default command line environment because its way more cool than the cmd shell and even a nerd with a penchant for undead languages sometimes worries about being cool to some tin...

In this episode of 10-4, we introduce another new feature of ASP.NET WebForms 4.0: Routing. The ASP.NET Routing engine was added in the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 release and is heavily leveraged by both ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Dynamic Data to provide bi-directional routing functionality. With the relea...

It’s late, but here’s a little humor for ‘ya. I’ve been noticing recently that I’ve been getting some odd warnings in Visual Studio for variables that are defined and never used. Check out the following screen shot from C# code editor: Notice how the compiler is warning about isSelected no...

OK, so some of this stuff would have been (and still would be) very helpful during my recent updates to Community Megaphone. I finally got around to setting up a separate dev database, plus a staging server for testing new bits in a non-local setting before pushing them out to the main site. Managin...

Visual Studio 2010 won’t look like crap. It may still in large parts work like crap, but the workspace area coloring here is pure art. I’ve been waiting for expounding ever since I saw the first sneak peek. I also dig the neat, rounded-corner bevels and the yellow frame highlighting the ...

It’s been a while since I last blogged. I’ve become a forum moderator, an All-Star and also completed my final exams for my bachelor’s degree since then. Now that I have a little more time, I hope to contribute more often. I was installing SQL Server 2008 Dev Edition with all features, and ran...

I run SharePoint development environment on virtual machine. Virtual machine has 2GB RAM and 30GB disk space. Also I have no complaints over processor (I can run here two usual ASP.NET development virtual machines parallel). All other Visual Studio projects are working well except those that use VSe...

A while back, I posted some instructions that can be used to create an administrative install point for the .NET Framework 3.0 SP1.  Since then, the .NET Framework 3.0 SP2 has been released (it is required in order to install the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1).  Here are some updated steps that c...

A while back, I posted some instructions that can be used to create an administrative install point for the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1.  Since then, the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 has been released (it is required in order to install the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1).  Here are some updated steps that c...

I have heard from a few people who have run into error code 25015 with a data error (cyclic redundancy check) message while trying to install the .NET Framework 2.0, 2.0 SP1 or 2.0 SP2.  This error can also occur during .NET Framework 3.0, 3.5 or 3.5 SP1 setup because all of these versions of t...