Archives - March 2010
How To: Automatically Remove www from a Domain in IIS7
I recently moved the DevMavens.com site from one server to another and needed to ensure that the www.devmavens.com domain correctly redirected to simply devmavens.com . This is important for SEO reasons (you don’t want multiple domains to refer to the same content) and it’s generally better to...
ASP.NET MVC 2 and Windows Azure
If you upgrade an Azure web instance to use ASP.NET MVC 2, make sure you mark the System.Web.Mvc reference as Copy Local = true. Otherwise, your deployment will fail. And you won’t get any good feedback from Windows Azure as to the cause of the problem. So you’ll start searching the...
Simple Branching and Merging with SVN
It’s a good idea not to do too much work without checking something into source control. By “too much work” I mean typically on the order of a couple of hours at most, and certainly it’s a good practice to check in anything you have before you leave the office for the day. But what if your...
Fix: SqlDeploy Task Fails with NullReferenceException at ExtractPassword
Still working on getting a TeamCity build working ( see my last post ). Latest exception is: C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\TeamData\Microsoft.Data.Schema.SqlTasks.targets(120, 5): error MSB4018: The "SqlDeployTask" task failed unexpectedly. System.NullReferenceException...
Fix: SqlDeploy Task Fails with NullReferenceException at ExtractPassword →
Could Not Load Type Microsoft.Build.Framework.BuildEventContext
Setting up a TeamCity build and got this error: C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\TeamData\Microsoft.Data.Schema.SqlTasks.targets(80, 5): error MSB4018: The "SqlSetupDeployTask" task failed unexpectedly. System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'Microsoft.Build.Framework...
Could Not Load Type Microsoft.Build.Framework.BuildEventContext →
Fix: Can’t Change or Remove Visual Studio 2008 from DVD
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 32-bit Visual Studio program. When you run the...
Open Visual Studio Files As Administrator
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 faced with a dialog like this one (for Azure): Now of...
Eliminate Repetition with Action<T>
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 demand, and so was coded up as an EXE application. ...
