Posted by jpluimers on 2011/04/07
Just released: Mono for Android.
This – like MonoTouch for iOS – allows you to develop, debug and deploy Android applications using .NET
Mono for Anroid includes Visual Studio 2010 integration.
If you have a MonoTouch license, you temporarily get a discount on Mono for Android.
Now you can use .NET for the major mobile platforms: iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 sharing major portions of your code across those platforms.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/04/07
When you have lots of projects in a solution, quickly the tree in the Solution Explorer gets a mess, especially if you have “Track Active Item in Solution Explorer” enabled.
“Solution Explorer Tools” addin for Visual Studio 2010 helps with that.
It adds three buttons to solution explorer
The first one basically means you will never need to enable “Track Active Item in the Solution Explorer” again.
The second and third quickly get rid of the mess in the Solution Explorer.
Highly recommended!
–jeroen
via: Solution Explorer Tools.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/04/06
The below message in my Error List is not an error: it has a red exclamation mark, which falls outside the category Error (Red bullit with white cross), Warning (Yellow triangle with black exclamation mark) or Message (White bullet with blue lowercase i).
Bit it is still indicatint something was wrong:
1 Failed to copy project output to file C:\tfs.root\MyServiceApplication\ClientBin\MySilverlight.Client.Test.xap. Access to the path ‘C:\tfs.root\MyServiceApplication\ClientBin\MySilverlight.Client.Test.xap’ is denied. 0 0 MyServices
What it indicates is that the .xap file is readonly, and cannot be overwritten.
The reason is that during checkin in TFS, by accident all the .XAP files were added (by default, .XAP files are not on the binary exclusion list), and I found the answer in this thread.
At the end of the build process, the above message disappeared, but the .XAP file was not replaced, so the project output was not up-to-date.
Ergo: the build should have failed.
The solution was simple:
Now Visual Studio 2010 can regenerate the .XAP files and your project output is correct again.
NB: .XAP files can be in two places, be sure to check both:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/04/05
While browsing for some less used but useful C# features, I came across a great post by Michael (Mike) Ward from Blue Onion Software on Favorite C# Idioms based on the great Hidden Features of C# thread on StackOverflow.
Mike starts with
There’s a great post on Stackoverflow about hidden features in C#. I prefer to think of these as idioms rather than hidden features since most are actually documented. Here are my favorites.
Then he continues with some nice examples of C# idioms.
Recommended reading!
–jeroen
via Favorite C# Idioms | Blue Onion Software.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/04/05
Entity Framework 4 is nice, but has very confusing error messages.
Maybe it is just me, but getting a feel for what each error message means, and how to cure the underlying mistake(s) is time consuming.
For instance, it took me quite a while to find out why this error occurred during a project build:
Error 3004: Problem in mapping fragments starting at line 569: No mapping specified for properties MyEntity.MyValue in Set MyEntities. An Entity with Key (PK) will not round-trip when: Entity is type [MyEntities.MyEntity]
The solution was simple, I had forgotten to manually perform the “Generate Database from Model…” step before building my solution and was glad I found it in this Stack Overflow answer:
Have since discovered that after I add/change/delete properties on my entities I must “Generate Database from Model” before I compile otherwise I get 3004 mapping errors.
Note that this generation is always a manual step; I haven’t found a way to automate that (if you have found a way: please add a comment below).
–jeroen
via: .net – Entity Framework 4 mapping fragment error when adding new entity scalar – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/30
The Download details: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (Installer) initially lets you download a bootstrap installer that only downloads the Service Pack 1 parts you actually need.
A bit further down on that page is the link to the full ISO DVD image with the anything you might need when updating multiple systems.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/30
Somehow, deleting TFS projects is still not integrated in a default UI.
You can use TFSDeleteProject from the command-line though.
The TFSDeleteProject tool works for TFS 2005, 2008 and 2010, as these posts show:
It is usually in a directory like “\Program Files\Visual Studio 9\Common7\IDE\”.
Oh: don’t put quotes around “Project-Name“:
TfsDeleteProject /server:myteamserver.benday.com Project-Name
–jeroen
via Delete a Team Project from Team Foundation Server.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/29
James Michael Hare finally published his Debug-able, Self-Installing Windows Service Template download.
Quote: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/25
For later reference:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/24
I always forget which trace switches in the App.Config come in handy when using LLBLGenPro.
So I remember: The most important one is SqlServerDQE.
More of them are explained in Righthand blogs : Implementing more useful tracing for LLBLGenPro 2.0.
–jeroen
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