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  • Why have my visual state changes stopped working?

    May 22, 2012

    This took me a little while to work out, and searching for an answer didn’t help me out, so I thought it might be helpful to post this as a pointer to anyone else who encounters the same problem. My scenario: A Silverlight Windows Phone 7.1 App a control with a number of visual states applied to it Interaction …

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  • Hooking into session start events in an HTTP module

    Jan 25, 2012

    According to the MSDN documentation you can’t handle Session Start events in an HTTP module. The reason for this is because when you are initialising an HTTP module you hook into events associated to the HttpApplication class, and HttpApplication doesn’t expose any events relating to the starting of …

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  • Article on using SqlBulkCopy with POCOs

    Jan 20, 2012

    I realised that I never pushed this on my blog at all, so belatedly I will. Last year I wrote an article for Developer Fusion that discussed how you could make use of SqlBulkCopy to do high performance inserts when you were working with POCOs, rather than inserting them entity by entity using an ORM. The bottom line …

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  • DynaCache- just like page output caching, but for classes

    Jan 15, 2012

    Anyone who has done any serious work with any ASP.NET based framework will know that page output caching is a great feature. For those not familiar with it, the basic premise is that it makes sure that the generation of content is done only once for a set of parameters, and that all subsequent requests with the same …

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  • Tutorial: Using LIFTI in an MVC 3 web application

    Jul 1, 2011

    Updated 25/02/2012 - it was highlighted that some of the seach phrases used towards the end of this article were not returning the expected results - that was down to me making assumptions about which words would be stemmed - these examples have been updated. This tutorial will take you through an end-to-end …

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  • Entity Framework Code First: "The path is not valid. Check the directory for the database"

    Jun 27, 2011

    If you create a new MVC application and try to go down the Code First with SQL Server Compact route, you might encounter this error when you first start the application: The path is not valid. Check the directory for the database.**[ Path = …\WebSample\App_Data\YourDatabase.sdf ] This error might be a surprise …

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  • LIFTI XmlWordSplitter

    Jun 10, 2011

    The XmlWordSplitter is a new word splitter class in the latest release of LIFTI. I created it mainly because it was required for the persisted index sample, but it seemed too useful to keep out of the core framework. At a very high level the XmlWordSplitter just enumerates words contained within elements in a piece of …

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  • Changes to the LIFTI API

    Jun 8, 2011

    This post relates to the breaking changes between version 0.4 and 0.5 of LIFTI. LIFTI is a full-text indexing library for .NET - find out more on its CodePlex site. The latest release of LIFTI has several breaking changes that will affect you, so I wanted to take some time to explain not only what they are, but why I …

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  • Debugging "The agent process was stopped while the test was running"

    Apr 25, 2011

    I’ve encountered the unhelpful “The agent process was stopped while the test was running” MSTest error result a couple of times recently, and I thought that I’d share a few of my findings and approaches to debugging the unit tests that cause them. The MSTest “Error” Result In my …

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  • Using Windows Live Mesh to synchronize your draft blog posts

    Apr 12, 2011

    I use Windows Live Writer to put together all my blog posts, but I also use multiple computers. I’ll sometimes find myself writing a draft post on one computer and wanting to carry on editing it on another. Live Writer stores draft posts in Documents\My Weblog Posts\Drafts, and in the past I’ve just …

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Mike Goatly

Like a code monkey, but more goat-like. A code goat, if you like.
Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate
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