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I updated three packages this morning. I didn’t even notice until the tweets came in from @chocolateynuget . How is this possible? It’s simple. I love automation. I built chocolatey to take advantage of automation. So it would make sense that we could automate checking for package updates and publishing...
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Recently I got back into writing html/javascript code as part of my day job and boy-o-boy have things changed since the last time i did any of this. One thing that has not changed for me however was my belief in unit testing, so it was very painful for me to be writing hundreds of lines of javascript...
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Today I was trying to publish a Asp.net 4.5 site to our server and I received the following error; The Application pool that you are trying to use has the ‘managedRuntimeVersion’ property set to v4.0. This application requires ‘v4.5’ I thought this was odd so I went to change the App pool, only to see...
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The following is a script that I used to help me clean up a database and reduce the size of it from 95MB down to 3MB so we could use it for a development backup. I will note that we also removed some of the data out. I shared this with a friend recently and he used this to go from 70GB to 7GB ! UPDATE...
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When building a Windows RT application (based on C#) it is pretty common that you will want to notify your user of an event. It is more common that you are going to want to do this in a way which is not intrusive, aka does not get in the way of the user. Luckily for you the WinRT team has...
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In my prior post I documented the steps and processes that OUR team took to move from hosting our source in a TFS solution to Git/Github (remember, these are SIMPLY our steps). However, one thing I did not mention is how we moved our feature branches from TFS to Github. Given the fact that TFS...
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I am a huge fan of the Code Contracts library which is now part of .net, in fact when I setup a new instance of VS it is one of the first plugins I install by default. However, I was having some issues because even though I had installed the .msi I was not able to get the settings tab to show up...
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When you are adding the ability to have a Secondary tile to your Windows phone application you may from time to time find the need to debug or mimic the launching of the application via the Secondary tile w/ the correct query string values. Sadly, debugging this via the debugger is not something that...
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Companies want to hire the type of person that is cut out to be a remote worker. The type of person that can be a remote worker is the type of person that excels at their work and that is what companies are always looking for. In the first part of this series we talked about what remote work is and how...
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Recently while trying to deploy a service to a clean VM (moving this off our main production server onto its own server) I ran into the error below” Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'System, Version=2.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e...
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If you are attempting to work with or create secondary tiles and you are getting the following exception you may want to check your title id. System.ArgumentException: The parameter is incorrect. When trying to do a SecondaryTile.Exists (tileId) with the value as seen in the picture below I was...
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When building WinRT applications it is going to be pretty common to want to play some sort of embedded audio file. It may also be common to want to play this file but via a ViewModel (or simply not in a view). In this post we are going to take a quick look at how to play an MP3 file by using...
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When working with a C#/XAML WinRT application it is common that you will include resources such as images, files, audio recordings, etc inside your deployment package. It will also be common that you may want to access these resources as native storage files in order to do things like share them...
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Recently when I needed to parse the twitter datetime format into a .Net DateTime I found this post on the web showing how to do it. However, the format string in the post is setup for non-us format so I thought I would share how to do it for US formatted datetime. const string format = "ddd...
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The biggest complaint most remote workers have in regards to working on a team? Feeling disconnected. The biggest complaint an office has about remote workers? They forget the remote workers are there and don’t always trust what they are doing. Want to learn how to get past both issues? Hi, my name is...