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The English language has, within a lifetime, emerged as the ubiquitous 'international language' of scientific, political and technical communication. On the one hand, learning a single, common language, International English, has made it much easier to...
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Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 1.3 (VSeWSS 1.3) tends to make my life easier unless I'm typing out the words that make up the VSeWSS acronym - really, what a mouthful. But one of the problems that I routinely encounter are error...
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"Technical communications" is, let's be honest, quite a vague term. I think this is fantastic. More than that, I think it's important. Some folks don't agree. I'm deeply baffled as to why. What a technical communicator isn't In a discussion about what...
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I once lived in a small village miles from the nearest town or city, out in 'the sticks', a backwater where everyone was on first name terms - principally because most shared the same surname. The village had few amenities, only a single pub that also...
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Have all your SharePoint site columns and content types ever mysteriously vanished from your site collection? What could cause this catastrophe to occur? At one time or another when you are developing solutions for SharePoint (MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0)...
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Method not found: 'Void System.Web.Mvc.ViewContext..ctor(System.Web.Mvc.ControllerContext, System.Web.Mvc.IView, System.Web.Mvc.ViewDataDictionary, System.Web.Mvc.TempDataDictionary)'I am finding that there are several complaints about getting Spark View...
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For a while now lots of people have been telling me that the Red Gate site search is not so good. So we've got together a team of people to fix it, but before we could do that we had to work out what exactly is wrong with it. All the feedback was in the...
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There's a tale of supposed rock star excess, originally told of Van Halen and since attributed to many other groups and divas, about brown M&M's. They would demand, so the story goes, a bowl of M&M's in their dressing room, but with the brown...
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The very best software is almost always originally the creation of a single person. Readers of our 'Geek of the Week' will know of a few of them. Even behemoths such as MS Word or Excel started out with one programmer. There comes a time with...
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Recently I read a book titled "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership" by John Maxwell. In this book, Maxwell categories the qualities that creates a great leader. As I read this book I thought about the many managers and leaders that I have encountered...
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There may be a few blog posts around on customer contact from a sales and marketing point of view, but not so many on the other points of contact a company has with their customers, which can be overlooked. Not everyone who deals with customers has a...
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If your looking at the public beta of SharePoint 2010 and thinking, "We are going to need to upgrade, but where do I start?" then hopefully this basic guide should help you on how to plan and what action to take in preparation for an upgrade. Upgrade...
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You've been bitten by the "'svchost' has been built with an evaluation version of {smartassembly}, which has expired on Wednesday, 20 January 2010. You need to purchase a license of {smartassembly}" error. Find out how to fix it....
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In a fascinating interview in this issue of Simple-Talk, Don Syme discusses his work on the F# programming language, its journey from it academic roots in ML and Ocaml, to its burgeoning status as the hottest new thing in .NET. A central pin in the forthcoming...
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More new software releases from Red Gate's .NET developer tools team....
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Reflector Pro's builds are getting pretty stable now. So we've decided to call this one a beta! Download it now from http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/downloadbeta.htm. There are two components to this project really, and we're hoping you'll...
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Hey there everyone. I was recently tasked to pitch a book to my publisher. As a first step I need to come up with an outline for the Table of Contents. This book is the standard cookbook style with an added focus on the MVC side of ASP.NET. ...
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Are you programming in .NET? I would like to understand how important application performance is to your organisation, and how you measure and analyse performance. I would really appreciate it if you could take 1 minute to answer 3 simple questions.
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After the much-hyped millennium bug failed to do much damage, nobody was really expecting a 'Decennium' 'Y2K16' or 'Decade-change' bug. At the beginning of January, there were some embarrassing failures. The most publicized failure occurred in Germany...
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Announcing the release of {smartassembly} 4.2, plus an update on what we're planning for the next few months....
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In which Phil describes the seven phases that usually lead to project disasters in IT Development groups, taking the viewpoint of Group Dynamics theory and PsychoHistory. It should make any seasoned project manager wince......
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Most surveys suck. Think about how many you've seen and just sighed, or clicked away from in frustration, or struggled to understand. They suck. Partly, this is because survey design is hard - requiring sound statistical and research methodological experience,...
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When I first joined the industry in the late 90's, Microsoft was in the process of shunting the ODBC driver into the background in favour of OLE-DB and ADO. The ODBC driver was still included in Microsoft' Windows MDAC framework, but it had gained a rather...
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Our plan for deprecating .NET 1.x support in Red Gate's .NET developer tools....
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.. but it isn't :(Visual Studio's remote debugger is a really neat bit of kit that lets people with a lot of patience and no firewalls debug processes on a test machine using a visual studio instance on a completely separate development machine.Obviously...
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