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Monthly Archive for November, 2009

PDC09 – What I’ll watch – Day 1

Posted in .NET, ASP.NET, Community and the Web, Events, Parallel Fx and PLINQ, vNext on Nov 19th, 2009

PDC09  has started. Unfortunatelly I’m not there. But no worries! Everythings get recorded by the Channel 9 chaps.
I thought: let’s share my recommended movies / the movies I’ll watch :).
So here we go:

Data Programming and Modeling for the Microsoft .NET Developer
Don Box! The main guy behind Oslo, someone you should always watch!
Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Core Runtime for [...]

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Sitecore tells you: “Specified cast is not valid” during startup

Posted in .NET, 6.0, Experiences, SQL Server, Sitecore on Nov 3rd, 2009

An annoying issue which came across twice this week: Sitecore was throwing “Specified cast is not valid”-Exceptions:

And seriously, if there’s one thing I hate about .NET in general, it are exceptions. 95% of the time they are non self explaining and sometimes even nonsense. This exception would normally take me 20 minutes to solve at least. But [...]

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