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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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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As a Solution Architect in Sitecore you often get request ‘howto do SSL in Sitecore’. Beside of our great Shared Source SSL module, you’ve to do something on configuring the network/OS level to register the certificate.
So what’s the general idea of SSL? You want to have certain pages to execute over an encrypted connection. The [...]
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I’ve reinstalled my machine of last night with Windows 7. I’m very happy with this new platform! Thank you Microsoft. One of the final reasons to start yesterday was that my database integration in Visual Studio was broken. Of course there where many more reasons, but that was the issue which made me do it [...]
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
I wanted to be smart. I tried to use LINQ to XML for parsing an Atom feed. Here’s what I’ve got to read a link:
var urlElement = [...]
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Funny, check this post on From handling by Scott Guthrie. Why exactly do we want to move away from the ASP.NET Control model to MVC? To write more code? Even creating a form becomes harder. Wasn’t MVC designed to display… Models? I might be to tired right now to understand this. But I can’t see [...]
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Posted in .NET, 6.0, ASP.NET, Experiences, Sitecore on Sep 3rd, 2008
There seem to be a couple of issues with some libraries referenced in 5.3 when you run those libraries on an 64-bit environment. A while ago I heard about a trick which would allow you to run IIS in 32-bit mode, even when the OS is running on 64-bits. Today a partner called me with [...]
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I received a comment on my blog yesterday from Chris Corcino. Chris pointed out that he has a hard time to get started with TDD and BDD with Sitecore. Basically it’s nearly impossible to emulate the ASP.NET HttpContext. And this makes it impossible to do some additional mocking. As Sitecore is really designed around the [...]
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Posted in .NET, 6.0, ASP.NET, Sitecore, vNext on Aug 14th, 2008
We’ve sent out this message today after some heavy investigation:
Dear Sitecore Enthusiast,
You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the Sitecore Product Issues and Patches mailing list.
On Monday, August 4th, Microsoft released the following service packs: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1.
Sitecore has discovered that these [...]
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This is not official… but we’re investigating some issues with Sitecore and latest service pack. It seems like there’s an issue related to SQL Server.As we’re in progress of testing everything as it might be our internal computer configs. I’m not able to tell you anything except:
There’s an issue related to the access viewer and [...]
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