Since I started using Visual Studio 2005 and now 2008 it bugs me that strings in the debug windows (Immediate, Watch, Locals, Autos, etc) are automatically escaped in C# syntax (well, at least in C# projects.) Let's assume we are writing some code that produces HTML (or XML, or SQL, or JSON, etc...
At work one application has this intermittend problem that started when the developer started to use telerik's r.a.d. web controls. Once in a while, for some (until today) unexplained reasons, the telerik controls would start throwing this error: This control is complied for ASP.NET 1.x. Please use...
How to Create Windows Services It's not uncommon for an enterprise application to need some form of background processes to do continuous work. These could be tasks such as Cleanup abandoned shopping carts Delete temporary files left behind by some report or image generation feature Send email notifications...
I may very well be the last one to figure this one out, but I always thought that the Edit and Continue option in Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 was a myth. I always made certain that the Enable Edit and Continue check-box was firmly checked, as shown below, but I had never gotten the feature to work. With...