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Visual Studio - CloudService app "Build fails" Unable to remove directory.

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... [More]
Posted: Jan 17 2010, 02:10 by john.scott | Comments (1) RSS comment feed |
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ASP.NET MVC Tutorials

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... [More]
Posted: Jan 04 2010, 12:26 by jscott | Comments (0) RSS comment feed |
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Understanding .NET Reference Types and Value Types

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... [More]
Posted: Mar 20 2009, 10:21 by jscott | Comments (0) RSS comment feed |
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ASP.NET - Ajax - Expression - LINQ - SQL Server - Webcasts

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... [More]
Posted: Nov 17 2008, 21:39 by jscott | Comments (0) RSS comment feed |
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.NET 2.0 SP2 Installation - Were to find it

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... [More]
Posted: Nov 03 2008, 23:59 by jscott | Comments (1) RSS comment feed |
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Spawning multiple .NET delegates really slow

I recently worked on a project that had a listener service running that took TCP requests and made external calls to a remote WebService. The listener service could have up to 300 concurrent requests. In testing the service it was showing a significant delay in executing requests above 3-4 c... [More]
Posted: Oct 14 2008, 18:41 by jscott | Comments (0) RSS comment feed |
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