February 14, 2012

“The Concurrency field is required”

I spent about an our looking into this error. I had looked at my edmx and everything seemed normal for an auto generated concurrency field. I deleted the table, re-added, but still no luck. I then looked at my model to see if anything had changed from another developer, and had noticed my concurrency field now had a [required] attribute. My thinking was...

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February 7, 2012

Autocompletion for NotePad++

I know I know, Notepad++ is a text editor, not a IDE. However we can do a few things to make our lives easier when programming in Notepad++ such as enabling some basic code completion. To set this up go to Settings -> Preferences , then to the Backup/Auto-Completion Tab. There will then be option under the Auto-Completion group to Enable auto-completion on...

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January 30, 2012

The OutputPath property is not set for project

I recently got the error “The OutputPath property is not set for project ‘[ProjectName]’. Please check to make sure that you have specified a valid combination of Configuration and Platform for this project. Configuration=’Debug’ Platform=’BPC’. This error may also appear if some other project is trying to follow a project-to-project reference to this project, this project has been unloaded or...

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January 23, 2012

What is MyApp.vshost.exe, and why Can’t I Kill It?

The visual studio hosting process a.k.a [YourAppName].vshost.exe in brief is the debugging information that Visual Studio creates for between runs to help improve debugging performance and other various functions. I had first worked with these files when I had to clean out my bin folder and noticed these files would not delete and were still in use. I had found...

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January 11, 2012

Nested Case Statements in SQL

Need to do nested Case statements in SQL? Use the following syntax. This should result in ‘a1b1 – yar’ This took me a little time to work out the syntax, but pretty simple once I understood case statements a little better. For some more info on case statements, you can go to the msdn  article located at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181765.aspx

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January 9, 2012

Using Transactions in the Entity Framework (EF4)

You have multiple updates and want to implement transactions into your database updates in the Entity Framework? I had to do just that in C# , so I thought I’d share what I learn for to remember, and for you to learn. To do this, we must create a TransactionScope, and move around our save function a little bit in...

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December 13, 2011

The breakpoint will not currently be hit. The source code is different from the orginal version.

I noticed that my code was not being reflected in the current build of my application. Then taking a closer look and setting a break point at the code that was not being ran, I hit F5 and noticed a bubble with a warning triangle that had the following message. The breakpoint will not currently be hit. The source code...

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December 2, 2011

Automated Backups of Your SQL Database

Ever find yourself taking precious time and backing up all your databases, only to forget and be behind? I am currently working on some Alpha-PreAlpha software whose database structure changes with time like any other application. To solve the issue with remembering to back up however, I decided to automate it, and not have to worry. There probably is a...

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November 29, 2011

Creating Ringtones for the IPhone

There are quite a few services out there that either let you download ringtones for ‘free’ or allows you to cut a song that you own on a website. Another option is to edit the start and end time on later versions of ITunes, switching the extension, then copying to the device. I prefer a different option, doing it myself....

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