Visual Studio

What is AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming)? Aspect oriented programming breaks down programming logic in separate concerns. It separates and groups blocks of code that perform a specific operation and that can be applied to or re-used by different pieces of…

What is NuGet? From the NuGet website: NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to install and update open source libraries and tools in Visual Studio. Installing NuGet Method 1: NuGet comes with ASP.Net MVC3 The easiest…

First something about caching The numerous caching options you have in ASP.NET (MVC) are mainly focused on data and page output caching. But caching also occurs at the webserver, network and browser level.  These you can’t always control from within…

In the first part of the checklist, we looked at creating high quality websites from a client perspective and the tools that helps us do that. In this part we look at the (free) tools that will help us build…

Here’s a hierarchical view of the IIS 7.0 Configuration Store Tom Woolum’s Blog : The Official Microsoft IIS Site – IIS 7.0 Configuration Store Hierarchy

A while back we updated VS2008 IntelliSense to not fail when referencing jQuery. However, getting IntelliSense for chained calls and rich summary/parameter hints still required adding special comments to a few thousand lines of jQuery. If you didn’t have the…

In this blog entry, I list the essential tips and tricks that every developer who uses Visual Studio 2008 should know. I wanted to keep this list brief. I also wanted to focus on only those tips and tricks that…

Today I got this error message: "The type ‘<class>’ exists in both ‘<dll location>’ and ‘<dll location 2>’" I remembered I encountered it before, but I didn’t remember the cause, nor the remedy.  That’s why I keep this blog to…

[DUTCH:] Waarom verschijnt er altijd een ongemakkelijke glimlach op het gezicht van een ontwikkelaar als er gevraagd wordt of zijn software gedocumenteerd is? Hoewel deze vraag niet wordt beantwoordt in dit artikel, zal er worden uitgelegd hoe het op eenvoudige…

Exception handling plays an important part of application management and user experience. If implemented correctly it can make maintenance easier and bring the user experience to a higher level. If not, it can be a disaster. How many times have…

I know, I know, this has been done before. The reason I’m writing this post, however, is to improve on what I have found on the web. For anyone wondering what jQuery is, goto the jQuery site and also read…

Fix: Cannot copy file ‘X’ to file ‘Y’. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. in Visual Studio 2008 ISerializable – Roy Osherove’s Blog – Fix: Cannot copy file ‘X’ to file ‘Y’.…