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Model View Controller (MVC) 2 RTM was just released yesterday. After some very smooth test results here at OrcsWeb we've now installed and made it available on all of our shared hosting servers . Dedicated hosting clients can install it themselves or
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Visual Studio 2010 has an extremely functional and easy-to-use publish feature built-in. I use it to push sample code and changes up to my free ASP.NET 4.0 RC trial account (sure, I can get a site free as the CEO, but with this beta program running through
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C# is case-sensitive. C# is case-sensitive. C# is case-sensitive. I have to keep reminding myself of this. I'm not used to case-sensitivity yet and it continues to challenge me. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it!
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If you decide to install the IIS Manager for Remote Administration on Windows 7 you will likely initially get an error message stating that the IIS Management Console is not installed. This error threw me for a little loop initially. It's pretty straight
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I've been running Windows 7 since the beta cycle and love it. If you aren't running it already, I highly recommend upgrading - it's worth the effort for sure. Until yesterday I've had ZERO issues with Windows 7. It has performed beautifully and has handled
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Visual Studio 2010, the latest and greatest version of Microsoft's developer toolset, will be releasing soon. I've been around hundreds of users ( OrcsWeb clients, MVPs , and industry Insiders ) who have used it through the beta cycle (as I have too)
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Somasegar recently blogged with an announcement about special pricing ($299) for current users of VS2005 and/or VS2008 to upgrade to Visual Studio 2010. That's great. Thanks Microsoft! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick
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Guy Kawasaki's book The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything is an excellent resource and I recommend it for anyone starting a business or running an existing business. Guy spends a lot of time talking
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Microsoft's SQL Server tends to lock up as much RAM on a server as possible. If you have 2GB of RAM, you'll notice it uses most of it. If you increase the RAM to 4GB, you'll notice it immediately starts to use most of the new RAM too. This is by design
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Did you know we have free hosting accounts available to test out ASP.NET 4.0 RC and Visual Studio 2010 through the month of March 2010? http://vs2010host.com/ This is a great way to test out the new features of ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio. We also support
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Here is a useful post by Mitchel Sellers that lists information about each of the tables within a specific database. The output lists the total number of rows, reserved data size, used data size, index size, and unused space in each table. http://www.mitchelsellers.com/blogs/articletype/articleview/articleid/121/determing-sql-server-table-size.aspx
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Are there applications that you start frequently where you'd like to have a simple keyboard shortcut? For me, the number one application I seem to start and stop often is the Snipping Tool. Here is what I did to add a shortcut to that application - but
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This is a really neat 8-minute video showing off some new augmented-reality implementation demos. http://blog.ted.com/2010/02/augmentedrealit.php I find it rather amazing the new ways people are starting to use AR in applications. I can picture a time
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.Net 4 (still in beta right now) has a handy new method that can analye a string and return where it is null or just whitespace versus other text. Here's a quick sample: ScratchPage.aspx <% @ Page Language ="C#" AutoEventWireup ="true"
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This is an interesting article: Facebook fights back, disallows the Suicide Machine "Like the computer in the movie "2001," Facebook is struggling to keep its profiles from virtual extinction at the hands of its arch enemy - the Web 2.0
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