2010-08-08 15:49
I have read many technical books over the years and this is one is one of those books that you know you better keep handy. I really like how Robert has this book laid out and how he in… Read More
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2010-08-03 00:03
In the following example, I'll show you how to use the CodeSmith CSLA template's powerful renaming options. Many of you might have a legacy database with those ugly prefixes, or things you w… Read More
2010-07-30 02:20
In the previous article on how to use the partial methods in the CodeSmith CSLA templates to preserve custom code mostly focused on the code side of things. For those of you who might be usi… Read More
2010-07-28 23:06
One of the best features of code generation is the reality of being able to actively generate you code while preserving custom changes. This allows you to implement custom logic while consta… Read More
2010-07-27 23:01
I came across this bug last night, which was occurring right as CSLA4 was released. It had to deal with the CodeSmith CSLA templates when you set UseMemberVariables to tr… Read More
2010-07-27 09:42
I have done a few of these upgrades for a few big sites like Bink.nu and Sober.com. Here is the safest way without a ton of headaches. Please contact me if you need help, I'm willing to do… Read More
2010-07-27 07:39
There may come a time where you need to rename a column in your generated entity for whatever reason. The following tip and trick article will show you how to quickly accomplish this… Read More
2010-07-26 01:28
We recently released a new major version of the CSLA templates that add support for many new features including Visual Studio 2010, CSLA 4.0 and Silverlight 4.0 support. They can be d… Read More
2010-04-19 05:59
We have been working with Microsoft over the past few months to ensure that CodeSmith works with Visual Studio 2010. The currently released version of CodeSmith 5.2.1 already supports Visual… Read More
2010-04-08 08:09
During the development of our CodeSmith CSLA templates we have spent a lot time unit testing the generated code to ensure everything was working correctly.
In the future we would… Read More
2010-01-26 00:35
This article will help you upgrade your solutions templates safely and easily to the latest major or minor version. The latest templates can be found on our Google code project and the… Read More
2010-01-25 19:44
In a previous post I had mentioned that we added SQL CLR Stored procedures as well as SQL Functions in the release of CodeSmith 5.2. Since then there has been a few questions since then on h… Read More
2009-12-27 19:51
CodeSmith now supports SQL Functions and SQL CLR Functions with the release of CodeSmith 5.2. I will quickly show you how to add SQL Function support to your template.
The firs… Read More
2009-10-12 22:00
Recently I built a CodeSmith sample UITypeEditor that allows a user to enter in custom data into a DropDownList. In the following article I’ll show you what you need to do in order to… Read More
2009-10-12 05:25
During each release of CodeSmith, one thing we always do is test upgrade scenarios between each versions and check for backwards compatibility among other tests. Recently, I was amazed at ho… Read More
2009-07-29 03:40
Over a week ago we released our new CSLA Templates. I highly recommend everyone that uses CSLA to try them out as they will save you a ton of time. Also you'll notice very quickly that it fo… Read More
2009-06-03 01:46
We have updated the Tips & Tricks: Debugging CodeSmith with the changes needed to debug on Windows7.
Here is the quick overview of what you need to-do to enable debugging on a Microsoft… Read More
2009-06-03 01:46
We have updated the Tips & Tricks: Debugging CodeSmith with the changes needed to debug on Windows7.
Here is the quick overview of what you need to-do to enable debugging on a Microsoft… Read More
2009-05-21 07:00
In Part 1: The introduction was an overview of the CodeSmith CSLA templates we are developing at CodeSmith. In this post, I am going to go over how to use the CSLA quick start and the new im… Read More
2009-05-20 04:00
We released CodeSmith 5.1 with the new requirements of the Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5. One of our experiences in upgrading to the .Net Framework 3.5 is issues we have run into like our cus… Read More
2009-05-19 08:00
There may come a time when you want to implement some extra features or maybe an Easter egg into your application using keyboard shortcuts. I was recently tasked with creating an Easter egg… Read More
2009-05-18 10:00
A long time ago we needed a script to remove the cached contacts in Microsoft Outlook. After some research we found that these were stored in a NK2 file in the user profile directory. To run… Read More
2009-05-15 05:24
So far I have been very impressed with the CTP builds of Visual studio 2010. There are some really welcoming changes that are apart of Visual Studio 2010 like UI Unit tests and a completely… Read More
2009-05-14 08:00
One should always be aware that your site could be attacked by spam bots if you don’t take the proper precautions. The easiest and quickest way to help prevent 500+ spam users from joi… Read More
2009-05-12 22:00
Over the course of the past two years, I have worked on a number of Community Server sites. The goal of these tips are to share useful information about Telligent's Community Server platform… Read More
2009-05-12 19:20
On May 6th we released CodeSmith 5.1. This update brings in many welcoming changes, to name a few: .netTiers 2.3, PLINQO 3.0. Also CodeSmith and now requires that the .NET 3.5 Framework is i… Read More
2009-05-12 11:41
Today I was debugging an issue where Microsoft Visual Studio was closing at random in a Microsoft Visual Studio Package. We narrowed down the issue to a previous Microsoft bug report: Fatal… Read More
2009-04-24 06:46
I've been working on CSLA templates periodically over the past few months at CodeSmith Tools . We have designed the templates from the ground up around the CSLA.NET Framework version 3.6.2… Read More
2008-11-30 09:13
The .netTiers team released .netTiers 2.3.0 Beta 2 today.
.netTiers 2.3.0 is a maintenance release containing many bug fixes and
patches. We have also added various requested features… Read More
2008-11-04 01:20
Sometimes User interfaces can't provide a solution for every scenario where you might need additional functionality by customization. One area where you might come across this is if yo… Read More
2008-10-23 03:26
There may be a time when you need to use Extended ASCII Codes in your CodeSmith templates. If you have already tried using them into your template you have more than likely ran into the foll… Read More
2008-10-01 05:32
An update is available for SQL Server 2008. A list of all the fixes can be found here.
Download at Source ( Cumulative update package 1 for SQL Server 2008 ) Read More
2008-09-30 05:09
"Reveals extensive enhancements for simplified application life-cycle management, provides sneak peek at all key focus areas for Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0.REDMOND, Wash… Read More
2008-09-30 03:19
"Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 mark the next
generation of developer tools from Microsoft. Designed to address the
latest needs of developers, Visual Studio and the .NET Fram… Read More
2008-09-10 16:13
Below is a list of all the sweet improvements made to the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 since the .NET Framework 3.5 was initially released!
"NGen infrastructure rewrite: the new i… Read More
2008-09-09 18:07
I’m pretty sad that I will not be attending PDC 2008. There are a lot of interesting sessions this year that sound appealing to me. For a complete list visit the Microsoft PDC 2008 sit… Read More
2008-09-08 16:02
"Windows Live™ Tools
for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 are a set of control add-ins to make
incorporating Windows Live services into your Web application easier
with Visual S… Read More
2008-09-07 17:58
This ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 5 is an interim release that contains
some new features and some feature improvements for which the ASP.NET
MVC team would like to receive feedback from the… Read More
2008-09-07 17:54
I just came across this video and thought I would share it with anyone reading this blog
(Please visit the site to view this media) Read More
2008-09-07 17:44
After a very long time, an FxCop update has been released . Here is a list of all that has changed:
200+ bug fixes that reduce noise, missing analysis and rule crashes
Support for analyzing… Read More
2008-08-22 01:39
I've come across a few issues, where a CodeSmith install might become corrupt when going from a beta to RTM. The following guide will show you how to successfully remove CodeSmith from your… Read More
2008-08-19 10:37
Over the past year the CodeSmith team has been hard at work on CodeSmith 5.0. This release contains many fixes, performance enhancements and other enhancements over the previous versions. Be… Read More
2008-08-13 06:24
I was so happy to see that Microsoft has finally release Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. It contains so many improvements and bug fixes; you can view the full list of… Read More
2008-07-30 08:24
Date: Wednesday, July 30, doors open at 5pmTopic: Code GenerationSpeaker: Blake NiemyjskiLocation: Herzing College… Read More
2008-07-21 00:15
Here is a cool internal tool used by Microsoft that is now seeing daylight .
"We are very excited to announce the release of a new developer tool
from Microsoft, Source Analysis for C#. Thi… Read More
2008-07-01 16:57
I'm guessing that many of you have attempted to download the latest version of Windows Live Messenger or other Windows Live Software but have been prompted with the following error:
"Sorry… Read More
2008-06-12 12:20
The .netTiers team released .netTiers 2.3.0 Beta 1 the other day. .netTiers 2.3.0 is a maintenance release containing many bug fixes and patches. We have also added various requested f… Read More
2008-04-30 10:11
A tip that not a lot of people know is that the samples are not reset during every new release of CodeSmith. New versions of templates are added to the CodeSmith template directory for… Read More
2008-04-27 11:13
The other day I came across a bug when upgrading my site to Community Server 2008. The Community Server 2008 upgrade tool would throw an exception when trying to move my files into CFS. The… Read More
2008-04-15 07:26
Every once in a while you might run into a licensing problem when using CodeSmith. This can be when the Visual Studio add-in becomes corrupted, or you encounter some kind of licensing… Read More
2008-02-24 20:32
Check out the screen casts / videos of the Microsoft 2008 Lang.NET Symposium event. They have some pretty interesting videos available for everyone, granted you have Silverlight installed.Vi… Read More
2008-02-24 10:42
"Welcome to Microsoft DreamSpark Professional Developer and Designer tools for students at no charge" ( Microsoft ).I think this is really a great thing that Microsoft did for the students o… Read More
2008-02-23 12:18
Over the past week there has been some talk on Scott Guthrie and Shawn Burke blog about Silverlight 2.0. Please check out Scott’s blog for included freatures and eight walk throughs pe… Read More
2008-02-23 12:09
"This
release updates the Power Tools for the Database Edition to work with
Visual Studio 2008 and provides several new features. The new features
include two custom unit test conditions, a… Read More
2008-02-23 11:55
The February CTP of SQL Server 2008 has been released on Microsoft Download Cetner. From what I understand this CTP of SQL Server 2008 is feature complete. Please also check out the followin… Read More
2008-02-12 04:00
"XML Tools team has released the XSLT Profiler Addin for VS 2008 - a quick and reliable performance analysis profiler tool that assists in the development and debugging of XSLT documents. Th… Read More
2008-02-11 15:20
Scott Hanselman has created a nice Visual Studio Programmer Themes Gallery that allows you to quickly pick a color scheme for your Visual Studio 2005/2008 IDE. I personally like a black them… Read More
2008-02-11 15:03
Windows Server 2008 is the fastest OS I have ever used. It’s truly amazing at how fast it performs every task I throw at it. With this said, below is a guide on how you can customize i… Read More
2008-02-11 14:50
There are many new features that are being shipped with Microsoft
SQL Server 2008. But there were only a couple on that list that really stood out as a reason for me to upgrade to SQL Server… Read More
2008-01-23 10:26
Chris Bowen’s did a search last month for all posters available on Microsoft Downloads. This is what he found:
.NET 3.5 Namespaces PosterThe .NET Framework 3.5 Common Namespaces and T… Read More
2008-01-22 21:17
Overview
Microsoft Device Emulator 3.0 is the third publicly released version of the
Device Emulator for ARM-based devices. This emulator will also release
with Visual Studio 2008.
Device E… Read More
2008-01-22 21:11
Overview
Windows SideShow is a feature of Windows Vista that enables users to access
information from their PCs on auxiliary displays. The Microsoft .NET
Micro Framework 2.0 SP1 is the effic… Read More
2008-01-17 04:09
I've been waiting for this day for a very long time. Starting today you can view or debug the source code to the following .NET Framework libraries: .NET
Base Class Libraries (including… Read More
2008-01-15 10:49
Jet Brains has finally released ReSharper 3.1. This is the first and much
needed update to ReSharper since Visual Studio 2008 was released to manufactures.
ReSharper 3.1 also contains… Read More
2007-12-19 13:30
"This release contains project templates for using Visual Studio
2008 or Visual Web Developer 2008 to create new web sites and web
applications with ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1.0 features… Read More
2007-12-06 09:57
"Two more of the hands-on labs from the
Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit have been published as MSDN virtual
labs. This allows you to can get started with VS 2008 in a minute a… Read More
2007-12-06 09:48
October 27–30, 2008Pre-conference October 26, 2008Los Angeles, California"We are delighted to announce the date and location of the next
Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (P… Read More
2007-11-21 07:06
The last couple of days have been better than Christmas for a few of us.
Microsoft has been releasing many updates to its developer tools and sdk to go
with the recent release of Visual Stud… Read More
2007-11-21 07:05
Yesterday Microsoft complimented the release of Visual Studio 2008 with Service Pack 1 for both .NET 2.0 and 3.0. Information and download links are provided below."Microsoft
.NET Framework… Read More
2007-11-19 08:05
If you have an MSDN subscriber
account, you can download go Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 right now Read More
2007-10-25 08:51
Microsoft has released updated documents detailing the language specifications for C# 3.0 and VB.NET 9.0 ( C# 3.0 and VB.NET 9.0 language specifications ). These documents should take you qu… Read More
2007-10-25 08:18
The "Ace"
team inside of Microsoft has kindly released a plug-in for Visual Studio
called XSSDetect. XSSDetect is a "static code analysis plug-in that will identify
Cross-Site Scripting secu… Read More
2007-10-06 21:26
Tonight I ran into a dilemma where I was only supplied with a Microsoft SQL .mdf file. I thought that I would have no problems and just have to attach the database file and Microsoft SQL wou… Read More
2007-10-03 14:09
Microsoft is offering four gigs of hosting space to anyone
needing a place to host there Silverlight applications. I just hope a lot of
people will see the importance in the stance Microsoft… Read More
2007-10-03 11:39
I thought that I would never see the day, that Microsoft releases the source code to the .Net framework. I'm betting that the Mono Project is having a party as we speak!"One of the thi… Read More
2007-09-16 08:47
Do you want to learn about the new features of Visual Studio
2008, and various related technologies? I'm guessing that you probably don't even
know where to start? Well look no further, beca… Read More
2007-09-12 14:39
The other day I was doing my usual reading and came across some really cool information on Dan Wahlin's blog about what we can expect in C# 3.0. Even though I disagree with some of the… Read More
2007-09-12 08:38
Just a reminder to everyone to check windows updates often.
Yesterday Microsoft released a critical patch for any Windows Machines that
have Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack1 installed. To do… Read More
2007-09-06 05:26
Last night Microsoft released version 1.0 of Silverlight.
Silverlight is a very new and exciting product that will change the way we see
the web."Compelling Cross-Platform User ExperiencesDe… Read More
2007-09-05 08:41
The past week was kind of hectic, first of all I arrived back home to a damaged home. It took a while to clean up the mess even with determined family members and friends. In the near future… Read More
2007-08-24 15:06
Today was my last day at Telligent as many of you already know. During this internship I learned many things that one can never learn by watching the television or going to college. Here are… Read More
2007-08-22 14:43
Lately back home the flooding has been pretty terrible, in 3 days I will be flying back home to all this flooding. However Last night, I received two phone calls from my brother and dad, inf… Read More
2007-08-21 06:49
Scott Guthrie has released news of a new hotfix available for Visual Studio 2005. It resolves a infrequent performance issue when trying to debug an ASP.NET application.
"Over the last year… Read More
2007-08-20 13:06
This coming Saturday I'm leaving on a jet plane to head back to good ole' Wisconsin. I'm going to miss everything about Telligent, a lot. It became my extended family. I have truly learned a… Read More
2007-08-20 13:05
During the past week we had a hack-a-thon event at Telligent headquarters. At the beginning of the week, I kept hearing small snippets of Graffiti. So I asked Jason Alexander what it was, an… Read More
2007-08-20 13:02
During last week when all the remote Telligenti were in the office, we had the first ever Telligent hack-a-thon. The target of this coding event was to add any feature you thought Graffiti (… Read More
2007-08-15 10:03
Yesterday, Telligent had a hack-a-thon; and I'm very happy that they let an intern participate. I ended up staying up all night and implementing a project with the amazing markup and designe… Read More
2007-08-13 13:53
The past week here, in Dallas, has been the busiest so far. I have been working on a new navigation bar for Community Server Enterprise Reporting. I also have been making phone calls and get… Read More
2007-08-09 14:42
Some of you might be thinking of a top secret Logitech product. I know I was when I heard the utterance "G35." The G35 is a pretty sweet car and thanks to Donnie, in sales, I was lucky enoug… Read More
2007-08-07 19:18
This morning I sat down and started looking at why Community Server Enterprise Reporting was having problems running under medium trust. I kept on thinking something is majorly wrong if Comm… Read More
2007-08-06 13:40
This afternoon I started on creating the documentation for how to customize Community Server Enterprise Reporting. I'm going to be working on this for a while, because there are so many thin… Read More
2007-08-03 15:04
Today I updated Community Server Enterprise Reporting caching framework to use Telligent's updated caching framework. This updated caching framework is truly amazing; it can handle many more… Read More
2007-08-02 15:10
I bet you all thought that I was going to talk about shipping Community Sever Enterprise Reporting. I would, but then I would be lying and I don't lie. This morning I shipped a fifty pound p… Read More
2007-08-01 16:17
Automated Unit testing is one subject that I do not know too much about. I was wishing this summer that we would get the chance to unit test the Community Server Enterprise Reporting project… Read More
2007-07-31 10:35
My question to everyone, Is the Repeater control dynamic enough to create custom tables on the fly? When I think of dynamic it's something you have complete control over. And can change the… Read More
2007-07-28 19:57
Scott Guthrie showed off some new features that he's recently learned. This feature is new to Visual Studio and has been one that I have been waiting for since Visual Studio .NET 2003. Have… Read More
2007-07-27 19:40
Microsoft recently released its next beta version of Visual Studio 2008. Microsoft has targeted all types of users with the Visual Studio 2008 release by including an updated MSDN Library, E… Read More
2007-07-27 16:58
I had so much fun last night, Jason Alexander is so awesome. He took us to Dave and Busters last night! I think I had the most fun out of everyone there (Interns, Jason, Rob, and Snelson Sto… Read More
2007-07-26 16:27
I had quite the experience today, for one I committed the Community Server Enterprise Reporting Installer into the Repository of Community Sever's Installer. EEK! So I quickly did a "revert"… Read More
2007-07-25 23:11
Telligent let the word out and posted a release date on CommunityServer.org. Around September 1 st we will be releasing beta one of Community Server Enterprise Reporting. For the past two da… Read More
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