CodePrairie .NET

Jeff Atwood points out some definciencies in the install process for many of today's applications. Having just installed Jing yesterday I wanted to point out how pleasant I found their installer.   Click the check box and then the install button and it's done. Not only is the install a breeze, but the app is quite slick as well.

I needed to do some training remotely today. Typically I would use GotoMeeting for this, but I have been wanting to give SharedView a try and see how it worked. You can grab the download here http://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidSV?clid=1033&p1=1&p2=download_msi Setup was nice and simple. Once it's installed you enter your windows ...

What? Good question. In the middle of working I thought I'd add a new class to my project when low and behold I get a dialog box: No Visual Studio template information found. Seel the application log in Event Viewer for more details. Ok, so I open up event viewer and find this Event Type: Warning Event Source: Visual Studio - ...

Doing some MonoRail work I have a JS view that needs to update the options in a select box. Things had been working swimminly in Firefox, but then I tested in IE. Note to self: BUG: Internet Explorer Fails to Set the innerHTML Property of the Select Object   I searched around and found this commit to the prototype code, but how ...

Nice write up by Marc about ruby extend and include. He succinctly explains what each of the methods do, however I think his explanation is for a ruby programmer, not a C# programmer trying to learn more about ruby. Upon further research I found another post that made it quite clear for me. The extend method will mix a module’s ...

Just got this error when trying to invoke MSBUILD from the VS2005 command prompt. MSBUILD : warning MSB4056: The MSBuild engine must be called on a single-threaded-apartment. Current threading model is "MTA". Proceeding, but some tasks may not function correctly. It was working fine, and I have no idea what changed. I retried it and it ...

I was in the process of setting up another unit test and realized...I really should just make a Resharper template for this. As I went to create the template I saw one setup exactly as I would want it which is like this:   namespace $NAMESPACE$ { using MbUnit.Framework; using Rhino.Mocks; [TestFixture] public ...

So I have REST + HTTP which gives me CRUD over a resource. And I'm going to say that in the REST world Uri is to resource as PrimaryKey is to a table. Uri is certainly more user friendly so traditionaly I'd wind up writing something that maps a uri onto a database row. Why not just skip the database and map the Uri onto a file which ...