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Online RegEx Debugger
Maybe I’m just not that good at “the google” but I needed to debug some regular expressions in C#. I wanted a simple form that I could type in a regular expression and check it against a bunch of values. Couldn’t find it. Like I said — maybe I just wasn’t searching for the right…
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Visual Studio Team System Developer Edition and Database Edition are now merged
For those of you who have ever wrestled with what kind of license you should get of Visual Studio Team System — Developer or Database — well, this is for you. Microsoft just announced that they’re merging the two editions for Visual Studio 10 (aka “Rosario”). You’re probably thinking “well, that’s all well and good…
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Dubbelbock for Visual Studio 2008 Released for free
Well, Visual Studio 2008 was released in February and I finally got around to getting Dubbelbock updated for VS2008. The funny thing is that most of the delay had to do with modifying the licensing code since I’ve decided to release it for free. In addition to being able to access Team Foundation Server source…
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Beantown .NET Meeting on 7/10/2008 with Chris Bowen on XNA
Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting on Thursday, July 10th. For our July meeting, we have Chris Bowen from Microsoft presenting “Introduction to Game Development with XNA”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you’re planning to come, please RSVP by 3pm on 7/10. Click here to RSVP.…
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Some Win32 (unmanaged) C++ noob tips
This weekend I decided to do a little unmanaged C++. My biggest take-away was that I learned that unmanaged (aka Win32) C++ is really, really hard and obtuse. As a C# guy (who used to be a VB6 programmer), I don’t think that I appreciated how easy C# and VB6 are to work with. Here…
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Playing with .NET's Named Pipe Streams (with .NET-to-.NET and Win32-to-.NET samples)
I get my first deadline-free and commitment weekend in weeks and what do I do? I spend 12 hours writing code. I didn’t leave my house yesterday. I’m just that cool. (And yes, it was completely worth it. I had a great time just writing code.) Anyway, I decided that I wanted to try to…
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Speaking at Beantown .NET User Group on TFS2008 6/12/2008
Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting this week on Thursday, June 12th. For our June meeting, I’ll be presenting “Team Foundation Server 2008” as part of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Community Launch Event program (http://tinyurl.com/3uz2c3). As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you’re planning to come, please…
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Sample Custom Validation and Extraction Rules for Web Tests in Visual Studio Team System 2008
If you haven’t seen Web Tests in Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite and Tester Edition (aka. Visual Studio Team System), you really should do yourself a favor and take a look. They allow you to write and record unit tests that will exercise and validate a running web application or web site. The basic idea…
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My slides from VSLive Orlando 2008
I just finished up doing VSLive Orlando 2008 this week. To all of you who were in my sessions, thanks for coming. For those of you who missed the conference, you should go to the next VSLive. Here are my slides from this year’s talks: Win & Web App Installers with WiX De-mystifying TFS Reporting…
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"Session state is not available in this context" exception accessing ASP.NET Session in PreRequestHandlerExecute event
I’m doing my final preparations today for speaking at VSLive San Francisco 2008 on Wednesday and Thursday. I went to check one of my demos and code that used to work started throwing an exception. System.Web.HttpException was unhandled by user code Message=”Session state is not available in this context.” Source=”System.Web” ErrorCode=-2147467259 …