Steve Smith
Steve Smith is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, ASPInsider, and frequent conference speaker. His blog covers a variety of .NET topics with a frequent focus on software development techniques and application performance tips.
Steven Smith | 08 Mar 2010 18:51
Steve Smith writes "....If you installed Visual Studio 2008 on a 64-bit operating system, you may have trouble when you try ad add or remove functionality by inserting the disk (or remounting the ISO image). I believe this is because of the path used to install the..."
Read more » Fix: Can’t Change or Remove Visual Studio 2008 from DVD
Steven Smith | 03 Mar 2010 16:42
Steve Smith writes "....Working with IIS as your web server, or working with Azure projects, are two examples of situations in which Visual Studio (2008+) needs to be running as Administrator (on Windows Vista or Windows 7). If you don’t run it as such, you may be..."
Read more » Open Visual Studio Files As Administrator
Steven Smith | 02 Mar 2010 21:41
Steve Smith writes "....Yesterday I was looking at some old code and refactoring it to clean it up (in this case I wasn’t the original author, but I’ve written code just like this). The application in question was a simple process that had to run once per month, on..."
Read more » Eliminate Repetition with Action
Steven Smith | 26 Feb 2010 22:35
Steve Smith writes "....I just ran into a problem with SQLite and NHibernate, which was giving me this error message: The IDbCommand and IDbConnection implementation in the assembly System.Data.SQLite could not be found. The strange thing was, it worked fine from..."
Read more » SQLite Error IDbCommand and IDbConnection implementation in the assembly System.Data.SQLite could not be found.
Steven Smith | 25 Feb 2010 17:01
Steve Smith writes "....I was just trying to open a project I was emailed as a zip file from a colleague. VS2010 opens up saying: You should only open projects from a trustworthy source. The project file 'project' may have come from a location that isn’t fully..."
Read more » Untrusted Projects and Blocked Files in Visual Studio
Steven Smith | 24 Feb 2010 16:45
Steve Smith writes "....Occasionally I find myself wanting to SELECT from a SPROC in SQL Server. Usually this is because I want to ORDER the results or filter them further with a WHERE clause. Unfortunately, you can’t just do this: SELECT *FROM(EXEC mySproc..."
Read more » SELECT from a Stored Procedure
Steven Smith | 22 Feb 2010 14:36
Steve Smith writes "....Another quick tip related to the use of regions in your C# code – you can turn off the default behavior of wrapping interfaced implementations in regions via the options dialog. Simply go to Tools –> Options –> Text Editor –> C# –>..."
Read more » Avoid Regions for Interfaces in Visual Studio
Steven Smith | 15 Feb 2010 19:55
Steve Smith writes "....Recently I had to move some SVN repositories from one server to another. Here are the steps that worked for me, courtesy of Pete Freitag: Step 1: Back up SVN Repository Back up your existing repository with the following command. Note..."
Read more » Moving SVN Repositories to new Server
Steven Smith | 12 Feb 2010 19:33
Steve Smith writes "....As we approach the launch of Silverlight 4 and today the 2010 Winter Olympics begin (which are streaming via Silverlight!) I thought I’d post about some Silverlight Tools you may find useful as you build Silverlight applications. Some of..."
Read more » Silverlight Tools
Steven Smith | 10 Feb 2010 17:57
Steve Smith writes "....Building software applications is sometimes compared with building structures out of smaller components. The children’s toys, Legos (and their generic brethren), come to mind and in fact make for a good analogy. Given a set of..."
Read more » Tight Coupling, Legos, and Super Glue
