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When is software done?

The company I'm working for at the moment is suffering from a bad case of "everyone's a software engineer". The reasons why this is such a bad idea are all over the net, so rather than sit quietly, content with my enlightened understanding...

Posted to Ben Scott's Blog by Ben Scott on 11-10-2008

Deploy setup projects to multiple environments using a single build configuration and MSI

A friend of mine put me onto this technique and Google as I might, I've not found it anywhere. So my thanks to Eoin Clayton for putting me on to this... One of the common tasks to think about on a project is how you'll promote your application...

Posted to Christian Maslen's Blog by Christian Maslen on 10-09-2008

Filed under: "Visual Studio" "Setup project" "Deployment project" "single build configuration" configurationOverride "single msi for all environments"

Pair Programming - Day Two

Our pairing approach was to enforce pairs between the hours of 10am and 4pm, with an hour for lunch in between. I'm an early starter, so at about 7:30am I started working through the list of things I noted down from yesterday. I refactored method...

Posted to Ben Scott's Blog by Ben Scott on 05-28-2008

Filed under: Agile

Pair Programming - Day One

I've always been keen to try pair programming on a project but haven't had the chance until now. Our project is a "waterfall" project that employs a number of agile practices, but this is a big leap toward a much more agile approach...

Posted to Ben Scott's Blog by Ben Scott on 05-27-2008

Filed under: Agile

My new run

Just discovered www.mapmyrun.com. River Run

Posted to Ben Scott's Blog by Ben Scott on 05-16-2008

MSDTC, .Net 2.0, DB2 and Heuristic Processing continued...

In my previous post , I mentioned how to change to the OLEDB connection pooling defaults after receiving the heuristic processing error below: [IBM][CLI Driver][DB2] SQL0998N Error occurred during transaction or heuristic processing. Reason Code = "16"...

Posted to Ben Scott's Blog by Ben Scott on 07-16-2007

Changing the OLEDB_SERVICES Registry Key in Vista

The change to the OLEDB connection pooling defaults between ADO 2.0 and 2.1 has been causing the following exception in the application I've been working on [IBM][CLI Driver][DB2] SQL0998N Error occurred during transaction or heuristic processing...

Posted to Ben Scott's Blog by Ben Scott on 07-16-2007

Upgrade to Community Server 2007

This site has just been upgraded to Community Server 2007. If this post works, then the core now contains the add-ins for the MetaBlog API that allow posting from Microsoft Live Writer. The upgrade process went smoothly. I only had to run a single database...

Posted to Ben Scott's Blog by Ben Scott on 04-21-2007

Getting uTorrent to work with Microsoft Live OneCare on Vista

I've just spent 4 hours trying to get open a port for uTorrent to up my download speed. Now, I'm no network engineer but I understand enough to configure port forwarding. My environment consists of an ADSL 2+ router and a Netgear wireless router. I configured...

Posted to Ben Scott's Blog by Ben Scott on 02-24-2007

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Released

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 has been officially released. Source code for the Control Toolkit, client-side JavaScript library and the server controls has also been released.

Posted to Ben Scott's Blog by Ben Scott on 01-25-2007

Hiding a Row in a GridView

To hide an entire row in a GridView control consists of two steps. First, you need to override the OnRowCreated event of the GridView. This event has a GridViewEventArgs parameter that will give you access to the underlying Row.DataItem, enabling you...

Posted to Ben Scott's Blog by Ben Scott on 01-22-2007

Loading an assembly using a partial name... Assembly Binding in web.config not working

If you use NHiberate and you also use DB2/UDB version 9.1, you may get an exception along the following lines when trying to configure your session factory. An exception of type 'NHibernate.HibernateException' occurred and was caught. ---------------...

Posted to Christian Maslen's Blog by Christian Maslen on 01-18-2007

Filed under: qualifyAssembly NHibernate DB2

Running IBM DB2 9 Express Edition on Vista

Although the installation went smoothly (with runas Administrator), there are a number of permissions issues that I have encountered. The one that's really getting to me at the moment is a result of the Visual Studio.NET 2005 DB2 add-in. The error message...

Posted to Ben Scott's Blog by Ben Scott on 12-17-2006

WCF Proxy Generation without Types

On a previous project (.Net 1.1 Web Services) I spent hours if not days manually removing all of the proxy generated types from the Visual Studio.NET generated proxy class in order to use my Data Transfer Objects on the client tier. To the best of my...

Posted to Ben Scott's Blog by Ben Scott on 12-17-2006

Installing Vista RTM on ASUS F3JV

I took the plunge on the weekend and installed Vista Ultimate on my new ASUS F3Jv laptop. The installation went smoothly with no hassles whatsoever. Installing software and finding drivers was a different experience. Some pieces installed, others installed...

Posted to Ben Scott's Blog by Ben Scott on 11-27-2006

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