by Martin Hinshelwood
I received a confusing error from MS Build on Friday. I assumed that it was a GDR version issue for the top level message: Now, we have the situation with our Business Intelligence system where we have 2 solutions. One …
by Martin Hinshelwood
This is not isolated to GDR, but seams to exist in Data Dude as well. If you create the following SQL: 1: CREATE VIEW [dbo].[v_SomeView] AS 2: SELECT [BH].[Col1], 3: [BH].[Col2], 4: [BH].[Col3], 5: [BH].[Col4], 6: [BH].[Col5], 7: CASE …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well we have been having a few problems with the GDR. Essentially when we import our database it complains about dependencies. We have many stored procedures that call stored procedures that call stored procedures! This seams to give the GDR …
by Martin Hinshelwood
The Sticky Buddy has been updated to fix the following problems: Votes ID Title 2 2598 Application has stopped responding” when Logging into CodePlex and a Domain is not entered in the UserName field 1 2630 Handle large number of …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If you were worried about your pages viewing correctly in IE8 Beta 1 you had to restart your browser to enable “IE7 Compatibility mode”. Now it is easy: Although it seams to do a bit of detecting and only displays …
by Martin Hinshelwood
It may be simple, and it may be small, but the feature that hit me first and greatest in IE8 was the address bar enhancements. This feature alone would have me upgrading: This feature alone has improved my efficientcy 🙂 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Absolutely brilliant. That’s what I think of Linq to XSD. Disappointed that is only works in C#, but having to use C# for a single project out of a solution it is a small price to pay to get the …
by Martin Hinshelwood
After I got my computer rebuilt (due to Problems with Team Explorer after installed Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM) I did not reinstall IE8 Beta 1 as I knew that Beta 2 was soon to be available. Well, now it …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Calling a method on an instance of an object in WPF is not as easy to figure out, but with the help of this Internet thing I managed it. Say you have a DataTemplate that renders a WorkItemType as a …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I was having a problem getting multi threading working with the ObservableCollection, and struggled to find a solution. So I asked my friend Google and after a while it directed me to Kevin’s blog and specifically to his post on …
by Martin Hinshelwood
In Aggreko we use a product called Heat ITSM to manage our support calls. Now all of these calls are tracked using its tracking system, but we (Group Development) want to track using Team System. We need some way of …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have a little problem…I don’t have a computer at home at the moment 🙁 So I am writing this post from my Pocket PC using Diarist 2. I will come back to that, but first… The reason for my …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I would be interested to find out what platform you .NET developers prefer to use as your main Visual Studio 2008 box? XP XP 64 Vista Vista 64 Server 2008 Let me know!Technorati Tags: Personal Windows VS 2008
by Martin Hinshelwood
I received the following error box after installing VS2008 SP1 RTM: Team Foundation Error Could not load type ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Controls.ItemsUpdatedExternallyEventArgs’ from assembly ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Controls, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f57f11d50a3a This stopped me accessing version control…a key part if you ask me. The …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If you have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta installed make sure that you run the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool prior to the installation, Microsoft were trying to make this a seamless process, but on Heath Stewart’s Blog …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, MSDN will be busy today… Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1, Team Foundation Server 2008 Beta 1 and .NET Framework Beta 1 have all been released today. This is grate news as I have been using the Beta for about …
by Martin Hinshelwood
A while a go I create a Service Manager. A way of wrapping local and remote services (widgets, bits, things) for use in any application within your business or just in your own code… I made the source available before, …
by Martin Hinshelwood
As you have probably noticed I have moved URL’s (sorry to all you feed readers with the duplicate entries). The reason I moved my blog was to free up the http://hinshelwood.com URL for use as a personal site that then …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I now have a nice hosted version of the TFS Sticky Buddy that is fairly fast and deploys using ClickOnce, but you do need to make sure that you already have .NET 3.5 and Team Explorer 2008 installed first… …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well I finally got of by behind and set up a site for RDdotNET, its not special or clever, but it does let me host ClickOnce Applications like the TFS Sticky Buddy and give a single portal to my other …