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• A very dirty trick to open a Popup after a PostBack operation

  I’m not very proud of this cause it indicates a very poor interface design, but in a legacy project I’m working on we had the following scenario: 1- the user interact on some elements of the UI 2- the user clicks a button, at the PostBack operation information... Posted Nov 30 2009, 05:38 AM by Primordial Code Filed under: ASP.NET, .NET, Tips, PostBack, Popup, RegisterClientScript

• ASP.NET – Tagging and Hiding the columns of a GridView

  This is a simple trick that came into my mind working on a legacy ASP.NET application, the scenario is: we have a series of components that use a GridView to show some data, each GridView have several columns and according to the situation some have to... Posted Nov 18 2009, 03:45 AM by Primordial Code Filed under: ASP.NET, Tag, Tips, Columns, Hide, GridView, Id

• Create an EML file the easy way

  Many email readers (like Windows Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird…) use this format to store emails in files; I needed an easy way to create those files to send emails using the default email program the client has configured on his system. Looking the... Posted Nov 05 2009, 04:30 AM by Guardian's Home Filed under: .NET, Tips, programmatically, eml, create

• How to migrate a Windows XP installation from an IDE to a SATA hard drive

  These days I made myself and my bro a ‘Christmas Gift’ and I bought a couple of 10k rpm hard drives to give our systems some speed up. In my childlike mind I thought: migrate the system will be easy..just clone the HD data to the new one, maybe perform... Posted Nov 03 2009, 05:47 AM by Guardian's Home Filed under: Tips, Freetime talking, Migration, Migrate installation, SATA, IDE, Windows XP, disk copy

• Using Regular Expressions to identify possible bugs in code

  In the past few days I was moved to analyze some legacy code from a huge web application written by a company I work with. I have to write some new modules to integrate in this application; but while I was reviewing the code to ‘learn’ the style and code... Posted Oct 29 2009, 06:00 AM by Guardian's Home Filed under: .NET, Tips, Visual Studio, Regular Expression, Find, Bugs

• Missing .NET Performance Counters: how to solve it

  Today I’ve started to profile my applications to try to see if I have some memory leaks and performances bottlenecks. I just started the inspection trying to look at some performance counters (especially to check if the memory allocated by my application... Posted Oct 07 2009, 09:55 AM by Guardian's Home Filed under: .NET, Tips, Freetime talking, counters, performance, missing

• svchost.exe (LocalSystemNetworkRestricted) 100% Hard Disk usage

  Today on of my Vista developing workstations suddenly became very slow, the CPU was almost free and its usage was around 3-5%, the Hard Drive instead was overloaded with work, with its activity at 100% all the time. Trying to do any operation on the system... Posted Sep 22 2009, 05:00 AM by Guardian's Home Filed under: Tips, svchost, Superfect, HDD, localsystemnetworkrestricted, 100%

• VSeWSS: Unable to start debugging.The web server is not configured correctly

  If you ever tried to debug a SharePoint WebPart project created with VSeWSS, you might have faced this problem, and like me you might have lost a lot of time trying to check the IIS configuration following one of the many guides you can find around. Here... Posted Sep 03 2009, 04:26 AM by Guardian's Home Filed under: Tips, SharePoint/WSS, SharePoint;WSS;VSeWSS;Unable to start debugging

• WPF: yet another way to customize buttons controls (and controls in general)

  Days ago I needed a way to add an image and some other extensions to the standard button controls in WPF, I did a similar thing in the past in SIlverlight, but I had to rewrite the full control template. I wanted to avoid this situation, so I started... Posted Aug 28 2009, 04:05 AM by Guardian's Home Filed under: WPF, Tips, Image, Button, Customize, control

• VSeWSS: how to solve the ‘SecurityException: Access denied’ issue

  I started using VSeWSS as a support tool to develop a WSS/SharePoint application and I had to face some common issues. Sometimes when you try to ‘build and deploy’ – hum…this sentence sounds somewhat familiar – your solution you’ll get... Posted Aug 25 2009, 11:03 AM by Guardian's Home Filed under: Tips, SharePoint/WSS, Access Denied, SharePoint;WSS;VSeWSS;SecurityExceotion

• VSeWSS: how to solve the WebNotFoundException

  I started using VSeWSS as a support tool to develop a WSS/SharePoint application and I had to face some common issues. Sometimes when you try to ‘build and deploy’ your solution you’ll get this exception reported (in the detailed log that VSeWSS emits... Posted Aug 25 2009, 09:01 AM by Guardian's Home Filed under: Tips, SharePoint/WSS, SharePoint;WSS;VSeWSS, WebNotFoundException

• Tomcat Troubles while installing JetBrains TeamCity and VMware

  I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out why the Tomcat service of a fresh installation of TeamCity Professional was continuously crashing each time I tried to open the administration console in the browser. I couldn’t find any useful log of information... Posted Jun 11 2009, 06:02 AM by Guardian's Home Filed under: Tips, Freetime talking, JetBrains TeamCity, Tomcat, port conflict, VMware

• Redmine: a trick to import data from Mantis

  Today I decided to give Redmine a try as my new project management and bug tracking solution, mainly cause I wanted to try its integration with Subversion (given the fact that setting up an integration between Mantis and Subversion is a really painful... Posted May 29 2009, 08:53 AM by Guardian's Home Filed under: Tips, Migration, Mantis, Redmine, Import

• Silverlight Datagrid Updated

  In December Microsoft released an updater version of the Datagrid for Silverlight, look at this post for the download link and the installation instructions: http://silverlight.net/forums/t/59990.aspx. I highly suggest to download and install this version... Posted Jan 12 2009, 04:04 AM by Guardian's Home Filed under: Silverlight, Tips

• Resharper and the OutOfMemoryException problem

  After having tried (and still using CodeRush Xpress), it’s now time for me to give an eye at Resharper too. To be honest I really like some of its capabilities, but I’m used to get a lot of OutOfMemoryException from it which have a very bad impact on... Posted Dec 23 2008, 05:57 AM by Guardian's Home Filed under: Tips, Visual Studio