Ack! Have you ever selected your folder and said "Exclude from Project" and then if you wanted to add that folder back into your solution, you couldn't. Using "Add existing item" would show you the file dialog and when you select your folder it drills down into that folder. GRR!.     ... [More]

<Taken from Rick Strahl's Web log> at: http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/132081.aspx ASP.Net includes quite a plethora of properties to retrieve path information about the current request, control and application. There's a ton of information available about paths on the Request ob... [More]

As a resource for myself I found this blog entry and wanted to retain the information as a reference list. Thanks to SheoNarayan for this post. Which you can find here: http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article79.aspx   Reposting in case that site dies: System.Web.HttpRequ... [More]

Okay quick blog for today. Not my best, but I have been working with SQL's native HierarchyID type and didn't want to see the regular Hex of 0X5B6EAD6B, So by adding a simple .ToString() on my Select statement for my table I was able to change it to be "/1/2/13/"   SELECT TOP 1000 [WidgetInst... [More]

The base class includes the field ‘MyUserControl_1, but its type (MyUserControl) is not compatible with the type of control (ASP.MyControl_ascx). [More]

Today I copied over another user control from another project into my current project and the code behind page was giving me an error on the label on the page. The error was :  “Cannot resolve symbol ‘ ’: After a little investigation I found this is being thrown by my ReShar... [More]

A computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations. A computer language is a transport for expressing ideas about methodology. A program must be written for humans to read and for machines to execute. Thus a Software Engineer is not somebody that just knows syntax o... [More]

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C# Development Standards Purpose The purpose of this document is to describe the C# coding standards used in the industry and my personal recommendations.   Microsoft Standards I primarily follow the Microsoft standards and best practices for C# development. The following information s... [More]

Camel Case The capitalization of a word is such that the first letter is lowercase and the first letter of each successive word is uppercase, e.g. "propertiesFilename". Pascal Case The capitalization of a word, similar to Camel Case except that even the first word is capitalized, e.g. "Properties... [More]