I couldn't work out why the option to create an "ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Application" was not appearing in the list of templates when I clicked on File > New > Project... in Visual Studio 2010. Only "ASP.NET MVC 2 Web Application" was listed there. Turns out there's a drop down to...
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I'm sure I read or heard this somewhere before but my searches have turned up nothing. If you fix a bug or add a feature to an open source project and you don't contribute that bug back to the project this is referred to as a stupid tax. The reason that you fixed this bug in the first place is because...
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There might be an easier way to do this but I couldn't find it and it took me forever to work this out so I hope that it helps someone else as well. Using the excellent and free Paint.Net image editing software I wanted to erase an area but I wanted to do it with the paint bucket so that it would would...
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I have a setup a site for Online Calculators that I created about 2 years ago to get up-to-speed on Silverlight 2. I've been going through and converting all of my web sites to VS2010, MVC 2, .NET 4, and jQuery 1.4.1. I anticipated that the calculators were going to be a bit difficult because I'd also...
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I've been using DropBox for a couple of months now and I'm very impressed. I keep my crucial source code files on there and sleep well at night knowing that they are backed up "off-site." That was my primary goal in using DropBox. However, now, I'm using more of the features and I'm using it...
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I installed the release-to-market (RTM) version of Visual Studio 2010 and it worked well for a few days and then suddenly it started giving me a "cannot create the window" error and refused to start. I did a whole bunch of searching and discovered that there were some incompatibilities with...
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I'm in the process of converting a bunch of projects from .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0 and know that I will be converting plenty more in the future so I thought I'd jot down some notes as I went along. This list of notes should increase over time. Machine.Config .NET 3.0 and 3.5 were really an extension of ...
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I'm using TortoiseHg and trying to get the hang of merging changes from multiple contributors so I setup a small test and did some changes and commits and pulled each one into a main repository without doing any merges (except one at the beginning). This is what the tree looked like. Then I tried to...
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I'm just starting to wrap my head around Mercurial and feel that this is the best diagram that I've seen that explains the push/pull commit/update model. To get or retrieve changes from your working directory to the "server" directory is always a two step process. To "check-in" you...
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The company that I work for recently bought my team the Make Better Software: The Training Series done by Joel Spolsky at Fog Creek Software. This is my report on this course. I've listened to all the Stack Overflow podcasts with Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky and so I now "get" that Joel is...
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