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October 2006 - Posts

Friday, October 27, 2006 8:35 AM

Excel, Pivot Tables, and OfficeWriter

I’ve been playing around with trying to analyze some performance data that spans numerous periods over time as well as multiple channels. Using SQL I’m able to get some results that look something like this: Channel | Period | Activity A |
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:08 PM

ReportViewer Showing No Data - Solved

I had a really weird issue with a ReportViewer. It would show the little green AJAX Loading… image but it wouldn’t show any data, just a blue background where the output should be. I knew the data was there because exporting to Excel or PDF
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Friday, October 20, 2006 7:09 PM

Team Build TF42046: The Build Service used in the build process is not reachable

Ran into this error today trying to kick off a team build. Found this link that I’m using to try and troubleshoot. One note so far is that the Team Build install is now found in the “build” folder, not the “BB” folder, on
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Friday, October 20, 2006 4:49 PM

SimpleCMS Updated For Microsoft AJAX Beta

ASPAlliance.com just published a new version of SimpleCMS which now uses the current Beta of Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX . Download it, check it out, and report any bugs you may find in the forum . Kudos to Brendan for getting this ready so quickly. Share
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Friday, October 20, 2006 1:01 PM

Modify Contents of SortedDictionary or Dictionary in foreach

So I’m working with a Dictionary (and later a SortedDictionary) today and I want a simple list of URLs and their HTTP status codes, so I create the dictionary as Dictionary<string,int> urlStatuses. Then I write some code that looks like this:
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Friday, October 13, 2006 9:34 AM

MVPs and Losing or Keeping One's MVPness

Frans Bouma weighed in on the recent discussion revolving around several prominent .NET developer types who did not receive MS MVP awards for this year (awards were given October 1st). If the Microsoft MVP program, or this recent discussion, interests
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:30 PM

SQL Reporting Services Tutorial Video Published

Last week I recorded a quick (< 10 min) video showing how to use SQL Server Reporting Services to create reports . Since learning SSRS was something that was on my TODO list for a long time, but I held off because I didn’t know where to start,
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Friday, October 06, 2006 2:08 PM

No More DLL Hell - the song

Dan Wahlin, an ASP.NET and XML guru and friend of min, just released a song called No More DLL Hell which you can download as an MP3 and listen to. If you’ve had any experience in the COM world, you’ll appreciate this song. You’ll find
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 1:08 PM

Tip: Share User Controls Between Applications in ASP.NET

This recently came up on an email list I’m on. There basically three ways to share user controls in ASP.NET (1.x or 2.0). Note that since Master Pages are User Controls, these techniques apply to them as well (and, in case you were unaware, you
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:02 PM

Debuggin Failed Because Authentication is not enabled

I ran into this prompt while trying to launch debugging in VS 2005 using IIS. I quickly found this MSDN online article to solve the problem. Posting here to help anybody else find it quickly. Basically, go into IIS and turn on Windows Authentication under
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Monday, October 02, 2006 5:52 PM

CSharp C# Feeds Help Wanted

CSharpFeeds is a simple community site dedicated to keeping up with the latest goings-on in the C# world, while eliminating the noise and personal/social posts from the various C# blogs out there. This task involves individually touching each post to
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