Found this trick today and it saved me a lot of pain. I was renaming/reorganizing a bunch of classes and almost every page I went to greeted me with this error: To make life easier I added an After Build target to my web project to run the asp.net compiler. This will catch all the same errors which would...
I was telling a coworker the other day how awesome it is to fire up the internet on my way into work on the train. Since he also takes the train and has a longer commute then me I suggested he give it a try. First question that came up was “Is it really fast enough to get work done?” ...
Sorry for the long and boring title, but I wanted to make it easy for Google to find this post. If you happen to have a site that is storing Unicode (that's bold because it's important, as you will see later!) HTML content in a SQL Server database and you want to enable full text indexing there are a...
Don't ask why I needed this, but here is a SQL function that will abbreviate a string: create function dbo.fnAbbreviate(@source nvarchar(100)) returns nvarchar(100) begin if charindex( ' ' , @source) = 0 return @source declare @ result nvarchar(100) declare @i int declare @ char nvarchar(1) set @ result...
What tools do you use? If you are reading this I bet you use some flavor of Visual Studio and some form of source control, but like most developers your tooling stops there. Why? Have you tried the various Visual Studio add-ins like ReSharper or CodeRush? How about SQL Schema diff tools like SQL Compare...
In a recent post, CRM 4.0 Plugins , I said I would post an example of a plug-in that handles entity merges. Here is that sample! :) public class MergeHandler : IPlugin { public MergeHandler ( string unsecureConfig, string secureConfig) { } public void Execute(IPluginExecutionContext context) { try {...
In the comments to my post yesterday (comments meaning the only one I got), my friend and coworker Richard Lowe pointed out that working with new technology also adds business value. I have to agree with him. Staying up to date with technology, whatever technology you use day to day, does increase business...
(Side note: The Metra is all screwed up this morning. I'm told trains are running 20 mins late then the 7:51 pulls up going from Chicago on the to Chicago tracks. Sigh....) Anybody that has worked with me knows that I tend to be an early adopter of technology. I love playing with Beta, Alpha, CTP and...
One of things I've been trying to put together in my spare time is a home media center. I got an XBOX 360 and using that as my Media Center Extender my goal is to stream backups of my DVDs that I ripped to my PC that is running Windows Media Center. Unfortunately I haven't been able to come up with a...
Something that has running on a background thread for awhile is "How do we implement pub/sub messaging?". One of the cons to having very silo-ed systems is how do you handle the cross-system reporting? For instance: When you want to get a list of all the customers that have more than 10 licenses and...
