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There are those times, however rare when you want to remove the source control bindings for TFS from a project/solution. Â I ran into this myself not long ago and found the answer ( likely on StackOverFlow .. where we all live-and-breath some days, right?) so I wanted to share it here. In Visual Studio you … Read more
Sometimes I just use my blog to write down what I have learned. Is that wrong? Well too dang bad .. it’s my blog after all 🙂 So recently TFS hit me with this gem while attempting to check in a simple file update. Value was either too large or too small for a UInt32 … Read more
Last week, one of my favorite bloggers wrote this little diddy in jQuery.  And though I list “Angular Ninja” on my LinkedIn profile that is more jest than reality. Therefore I thought it a good exercise to take what was written here at Maff Rigby’s website and do me some learnin’ about AngularJS Directives. I like … Read more
I’ve been doing some work for a website which would be deployed to Azure for both the website and the database. Â Here is a quick run-down on how the deploy situation went, an error that gave me fits and the final-fix. First off, let me say I had this website entirely working on my local … Read more
Microsoft .. love em or hate em (and I love em) has been making some big, big strides this past year. Â For a long time, I wondered (and I wasn’t alone) if they were “anti” web. Â But now they are coming into their own, joining the open source movement, going cross-platform and in general, getting … Read more
During a conversation with another developer friend of mine, an idea to create this hit me. I think we all have days where we can identify with this to some extent. When you think about it, a lot of what we do/feel as developers falls into these buckets. Â Or heck maybe it’s just me. Â (Please … Read more
I recently discovered a feature in the most amazing IDE in the cosmos .. otherwise known as Visual Studio. Myself and some fellow developers were having a discussion about AngularJS and JSON data. As you may expect we started talking about ways to get the JSON data into our C# classes. During that discussion one … Read more
Do you ever get overwhelmed with software complexity? Â There is always it seems, a new framework this and a doomaflagit-that coming out. Â More to learn, more to learn. Learning is not a bad thing. Â As we all know in IT, that’s kinda our thing … we keep doing that learning thing. The upside of this … Read more
Do you guys use this feature, Scope To This, in Solution Explorer? I recently started using it and found it quite handy. Basically it does what it sounds like in that you get to ‘scope’ to a section within Solution Explorer. Why should you consider using it? Let’s say, if in a large solution you … Read more
Ever had one of those days, especially when you’re in a new gig, that you’re just kinda bouncing around from [what seems to you] problem to problem? You have that unsettled feeling Coming up to speed at a new place is often difficult and can try your patience with yourself. So here is how it … Read more