While working on a CloudService application for Windows Azure, I encountered an error saying "Unable to remove directory "C:\HelloAzure\HelloAzure_WebRole\bin\_PublishedWebsites". The directory is not empty.
My version of Visual Studio is 2008 SP1, althopugh I assume t...
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In my journey to write better software I have been looking at various patterns available. One of them is known as the Model View Presenter or MVP pattern. In doing some reading many of the sites I have come across point to Martin Fowlers website who is well known for his contribution in design patte...
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Over the last week I have been playing around with the latest ASP.NET MVC 2 RC framework available here http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=157071
So far I feel like I have gone backwards from the rich UI development environment of ASP.NET Webforms. However as I write more an more code and...
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I have been to this even a few years back and it was very well organized, had good speakers, facilities were excellent, and even a free lunch.
Take a look at the code camp website at http://portlandcodecamp.org/
I have been developing in .NET now for about 4 years and while I have visited this topic many times I have not always fully understood things. Dealing with Value Types is really straight forward however when we start to get into Reference Types things become a bit clouded. Well I have recently bee...
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Want to write software that is safe and secure. Check out this article that outlines the top 25 most dangerous programming errors and how to fix them.
http://www.sans.org/top25errors/
Posting this for those that may not have seen the latest post update to 3.5 SP1. Might want to check out this Microsoft article if you are having problems after installing 3.5 SP1.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959209
Found some great sites that have links to all kinds of webcasts covering ASP.NET, Ajax, Expression, LINQ, SQL Server and more. If you want to learn about any of these topics the sites listed below are a great place to start.
ASP.NET Website - Great website with lots of resources but foun...
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I have seen many people referring to .NET 2.0 SP2 to fix some of the issues I have been dealing with. I finally figured out that the SP2 for the 2.0 framework is not available as of now anyways as a individual download but rather you must download .NET 3.5 SP1 to get the installation.
So I d...
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Writing applications that simply work is for the most part pretty easy. However writing software that is well designed, scalable and also readable takes a bit more work. Using and understanding design patterns can help you write better software. Here is a few links I found related to the topic. I ...
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