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 [...]
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 [...]
Quick Tip: If you want to change the default layout script in your Zend Framework MVC application, you can do one of the following: // Within controller $this->_helper_layout->setLayout(‘other-layout’) //other-layout.phtml //Within view script layout()->setLayout(‘other-layout’); ?> Thanks to Andrew at the StackOverflow forums. –Adam