Category: .NET
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BlazorWasm template for Visual Studio 2019
As of Dotnet Core 3.1 Preview1 (3.1.0-preview1.19506.1), the blazorwasm template is missing from the default manifest. If you’re following FreeCodeCamp – How to create a SPA with Razor pages and Blazor then this is a problem for you! As well, the New Project UI has changed and does not follow the VS 2017 flow. The…
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Pros & Cons – Rails vs. .NET Study
I’m debating between moving my career in one of two ways : Rails Study ruby on rails, leave Microsoft development, move my career in a new direction. I feel immediate happiness in this endeavor. Pros Test-driven development “baked in” to the development software Installation and environment setup is free. No extra computer is required. Ruby…
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SSIS Package Loader – MSDB Folders and Configuration Adherence
Here is a 1-2-3 for building your own VB.NET 2.0 Console application that will allow the upload of SSIS packages to SQL Server storage in the MSDB folder of your choice. The process also allows correct operation of XML Configurations on the packages (other configurations should work too, not tested by me in production though).…
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SSIS IsBig… Really Big… I mean HUGE!
I’ll be blogging some on SSIS as I now have a new gig slinging data hither and yon. Duck, you don’t want to get a DT_I8 in the face. So, today I was bitten by the IsBig flag on DataFlow Aggregate Transformation. This flag is notated in the BOL: A column may contain numeric values…
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Unit Test WPF Window with NUnit
I will outline how to setup NUnit testing with WinFX 1.0 (Feb CTP) in order to UnitTest an Avalon Window. What’s wrong Points of technology that drive the details. WPF windows must run on an STA Thread (Single-Apartment) MS Forums NUnit (and TestDriven.net, using the NUnit API) run all tests with an MTA Thread. NUnit…
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Apache/SCGI on Windows XP / 2003
I’m trying to configure a production-mode Win2003 server for rails apps. I ran down the rabbit hole for all of the following configurations : Cygwin/lighttpd SCGI/FastCGI: compiling errors on both my dev machine and vmware test. InstantRails / SCGI : well, after figuring out how to run production-mode scgi_server as a windows service (details below),…
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VS 2005 Beta 2 RTM & TDD
Ok, it’s been a while… a loong loong while. All my projects are now in process of being converted to VS.NET 2.0. Currently using the Sept.05 CTP. Now that a couple of the projects are deployed (using the Beta 2 go-live license, of course… only build on Beta 2… CTP’s are not licenced!) I’m going…
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TEST DRIVEN UI – Dot Net Unit Testing UI
Hello Hello Hello, It’s been a long time. I’ve had my head buried under several layers of black, gooey, .NET C# UI routines. Testing UI is NOT a picnic. I’ve found problems in two categories thus far : 1. Old VB6 tactics result in cross-updating/cross-merging of datasets. Basically MAJOR data collisions. The most common instances…
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New stuff
I will be documenting some of my adventures with Visual Studio .NET, both WinForms and ASP.NET. My main platform is Win2000/XP, SQL Server 2000, IIS 5. We do not perform “disconnected” application programming at my company. External intra-net access is achieved via Terminal Services.