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    Working with Visual Studio

    gregor , added Feb 04, 2009, 10:54
    There are a few settings I like to set up immediately whenever I am working with a clean install of Visual Studio to help my development go a little smoother. Here are just a couple of those things.How to Enable Line Numbers. In Visual Studio line numbering is turned off by default. You have the abi... [More]

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    How to Manage and Remove Recent Projects in Visual Studio

    gregor , added Jan 30, 2009, 05:13
    How to change the number of recent projects storedVisual Studio maintains a list of the most recent projects you've worked on so you can open them quickly. By default it maintains the 6 most recent projects on the start page. You can change how many projects it saves by opening the Tools &g... [More]

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    SSIS - How To Save a Package as a Template

    gregor , added Jan 21, 2009, 20:16
    When creating SSIS packages, you may need to set up common steps, connections or variables. For instance it is possible that you create the same type of package frequently but with slightly different configurations. Visual Studio allows you to save packages as templates. Unfortunately it is not qu... [More]

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    Connect to SSIS on Named Instance of SQL Server

    gregor , added Jan 21, 2009, 15:18
    The Problem: Can't Connect to Named Instance of SSIS in Management Studio I've occasionally run into the following error when attempting to connect to SSIS from Management Studio: "Failed to retrieve data for this request. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum) The SQL Server spec... [More]

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    How to Create a Publisher Policy Assembly

    gregor , added Dec 11, 2008, 07:18
    Here are the basics as an immediate reminder, I need to finish writing the rest - for full msdn doc see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dz32563a.aspx   <configuration><runtime><assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"><dependentAssembly><... [More]

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    Add Your Assembly to Visual Studio Add Reference Dialog

    gregor , added Sep 11, 2008, 09:09
    When you add a reference to a project in Visual Studio there are several tabs to allow you to "quickly" pick an assembly to reference. The .net tab is the first and, at first glance, appears to show all assemblies registered in the Global Assmbly Cache (GAC). It is, however, not associat... [More]

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    Mouse won't work in MS Word 2007 and Word Crashes on Close

    gregor , added Mar 26, 2008, 08:29
    I've had this issue a couple of times with MS Word 2007. Word won't accept any mouse inputs, have to do every thing with the keyboard. Also, when you close Word, it crashes and tries to re-start unless you cancel out of it. As I started to research this, I came across some articles that tell... [More]

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    How to Schedule a Process in ASP.NET

    gregor , added Mar 24, 2008, 07:59
    I have on occasion needed to schedule a process to run on a nightly basis, but I did not have access to the server where I could schedule a windows service. So I had to turn to using a timer object in ASP.NET to schedule the process for me. I used the application_start method (in the global.asax)... [More]

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    How to Convert a ByteArray into a Stream

    gregor , added Mar 21, 2008, 05:55
    Often when you need to call a function to save a file to disk or to a database you are required to pass a .NET stream to the function but all you have is a byte array. In pre-.NET days you had to move streams bit by bit by using byte arrays. You had to manage the whole process. Fortunately that is n... [More]

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    Converting Crystal Reports To SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

    gregor , added Mar 04, 2008, 16:50
    OK, it seems like every time I teach a Reporting Services class someone asks me how to migrate from crystal to Sql Server Reporting Services. Since I don't regularly run into this issue I am always having to look up resources, so I think it's time to just post some resources to my blog.... [More]

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