Post updated : Please check out the comments to download the installer..
1) Close all instances of VS 2008
2) Download the following file and copy the contents into notepad
File: RegFile
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\AddIns\Ankh]
“SatelliteDllPath”=”C:\\Program Files\\AnkhSVN\\“
“LoadBehavior”=dword:00000001
“CommandPreload”=dword:00000001
“AboutBoxIcon”=””
“CommandLineSafe”=dword:00000000
“Description”=”Subversion addin for Visual Studio .NET 2008″
“FriendlyName”=”AnkhSVN”
“SatelliteDllName”=”BitmapDll.dll”
“AboutBoxDetails”=”Please visit http://ankhsvn.tigris.org for more information
Below is the version information for the various AnkhSVN components
AnkhSVN 1.0.2.2778
OpenSSL 0.9.8a
Neon 0.25.5
ZLib 1.2.3
Berkeley DB 4.4.20
Subversion [...]
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Here is a good learning guide on the Entity framework. All credit to my namesake Zeeshan. Good work mate
Learning guide: Click here (pdf)
Source code: Click here (source)
Happy learning
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MIX09 is a conference to attract the latest and greatest in Microsoft web development and design skills. Now in its fourth year, the MIX conference is a gathering of designers and developers who are building the world’s most innovative web sites.
What is interesting are some of the competition rules
1) Source files and embedded images [...]
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T4 templates are yet another way to add generated code via templates into your projects. It plugs directly into VS 2005/ 2008. The idea is generate code output via templates which can then be used directly from your custom application.
A common sample would be to generate a data-layer out of our SQL database. This data-layer [...]
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Posted in Visual Studio on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SOA has been the buzz word for some time. However, most customers would argue/ask about the value it can provide to the enterprise. Also, if the value is justified (theoretically), how do I start moving towards an SOA enabled enterprise.
Probably, the best way is to look at the *lesson learnt section* from customers who have [...]
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In order to view your GAC assemblies – to disassemble / copy or whatever – open the following location in windows explorer
Location: C:\WINNT\assembly\GAC_MSIL\
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Posted in Visual Studio on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet
^
The pattern has to appear at the beginning of a string.
^cat matches any string that begins with cat
$
The pattern has to appear at the end of a string.
cat$ matches any string that ends with cat
.
Matches any character.
cat. matches catT and cat2 but not catty
[]
Bracket expression. Matches one of any characters enclosed.
gr[ae]y matches [...]
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Here is the error that appears in the event viewer.
There was a failure executing the send pipeline: “<PipelineStrongName>” Source: “<PipelineComponentName>” Send Port: “<PortName ” URI: “<FullPathName>” Reason: Root element is missing.
On tracing it down, this is the code that was causing it:
public static Stream DoTransformation(IPipelineContext pContext, IBaseMessage message)
{
//….
Stream transformerdStream = TransformHelper.XsltTransform(message);
[...]
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This is good! Microsoft has come up with a one-click web platform installer that grabs us “all that is required” to develop web solutions. You can decide about installing specific products in the confirmation screen or select all that is available. The installer downloads the selected options and installs them for you on your machine [...]
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The entity data model is based on the following three areas:
1) The conceptual model, which uses conceptual schema definition language (CSDL) to declare and define the entities, associations, sets, and containers of the object model being designed. The programmable classes are built from this schema
2) The store model, which uses the store schema definition language [...]
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