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This has bitten several of our team members – can’t track down the cause, but to address 1. Remove/Rename the C:\Users\[accountname]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\2.0\Cache folder 2. Run “devenv /resetuserdata". Thanks to http://codeclimber...

I’m not sure where I had seen some of this base code, but this comes up time & time again on projects. Here’s a little method that copies all the R/W properties (public) between 2 distinct class definitions: It’s called as follows: private static...

I’ve taken that macro that’s been passed around for years, and put it into a VS Addin. The following links for the full VS Solution and the MSI installer http://cicoria.com/downloads/VsAuto/CollapseProjectsSln.zip http://cicoria.com/downloads/VsAuto/CollapseProjectsSetup7z...

Recently, we had a deployment scenario where we needed to deploy a custom theme and some resource files (resx) to the Farm and the Web Application zones respectively. Theme Deployment via Feature / Timer Job For the first feature, deployment of a theme...

There have been many times that I’ve been handed a SQL instance that doesn’t allow me to do much with it even though the IT Admin for the machine have indicated they’ve done the install and your AD account is part of the Local Admin group. By default...

Definitely a surprise to hear that NBC would even consider all the late night shuffle after all the crap he’s had to wait for.  In support of Conan O’Brien… http://www.facebook.com/imwithcoco

With IIS7, we have a little bit more isolation with AppPool Identities For example, if you’re using the the DefaultAppPool, if you need to assign permissions to NTFS, SQL, etc., what you’d use instead is as follows: IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool Where “DefaultAppPool...

During an installation issue, a client followed the TechNet article ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298447.aspx ) and those instructions are misleading. It indicates to copy the “web.config” to the Layouts directory – what if fails to specify...