By default, whenever you have VS2010 generate a new unit test for a web method (an MVC controller in my case), it creates a hard-linked file path in the "AspNetDevelopmentServerHost" attribute. This may work fine if you’re the sole developer and code on only one machine, but what about when you work on a team [...]
If you’re trying to modify the property of an object automagically generated from RIA Services within a Silverlight application and you’re getting a runtime error indicating that the the property is read only, here’s a simple fix. Simply add the attribute “[Editable(true)]” from System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations at the top of the field that you’d like to be [...]
When working through the Movies tutorial on the ASP.NET website, I decided that it’d be fun to try to switch the data provider from SQL Compact to the full version of SQL Server 2008. In preparation for the move, I created a new (blank) database and gave the appropriate permissions to my test account. However, [...]
This is a particularly well-known error (see here, here, and here), but this is the second time that I’ve had to do a search on this error so I thought that I’d post it here so that I can find it more quickly. Anyway, when this error occurs, make sure that the NULL types in [...]
If you’re having difficulties debugging a section of code that uses the SafeFileDialog.ShowDialog() method, the reason is that Silverlight requires that the ShowDialog() method be called from a user-generated action. For whatever reason, entering into debug mode makes Silverlight think that you are not responding to a user-action, even when you are. To work around [...]