.Net Web Site to Web Application

Posted on December 11, 2017March 2, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

At my current employer, I support and develop desktop and web site applications. The biggest and most important application is a .Net WebForms website written in VB.net. Though I have done VB and some VB.net in the past, most of my recent experience has been in C#. For the previous 6+ years I had done […]... Read More

Tags Manager for Visual Studio Team Services

Posted on November 28, 2017March 1, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

With a recent job change I found my self in a role of sole ownership of a few applications (both web and desktop) with no source control, no requirements, no backlog of product requests etc. Anyway, so I quickly created an account with VisualStudion Team Services, the new and improved TFS in the cloud. I […]... Read More

Visual Studio Code Outliner

Posted on August 25, 2017March 2, 2018 by AOXEN Leave a comment

The other day while working in many large code files, I wished I could shorten them so scrolling up and down the code would be easier. I remembered having an extension or addon to Visual Studio that would add the ability to expand and collapse blocks of code making the overall height or length of the page […]... Read More

Git instead of TFS

Posted on December 12, 2016March 2, 2018 by AOXEN Leave a comment

My recent job change brought with it many new systems, processes, and technologies changes… including changing from Team Foundation Server (TFS) as a Version Control System (VCS), to using GIT for version control. GIT is, as advertised, a distributed revision control system that was created for speed, data integrity and to support distributed or non-linear […]... Read More

Team Foundation error an startup of Visual Studio

Posted on February 16, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack 2 Comments

If you have TFS Power Tools installed and Microsoft’s Communicator IM tool installed, you may get this error: Team Foundation Error, Specified cast is not valid. To resolve this error, open Visual Studio, in the Team Explorer portion of the IDE, right click on Team Members. From the popup menu, select Personal Settings. In […]... Read More

.Net ConfigurationManager saving AppSettings

Posted on November 18, 2009March 2, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

Well, it has been a while since I posted anything code related. I have been working part time for a new start up company SimpleWorks, developing software for the pc (instead of a web application), and in this project I seem to always be learning something new. I wanted to use the App.config to store […]... Read More

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