UPDATE 9 April 2014: The source is also available on GitHub T4 (the Text Template Transformation Toolkit) is slowly becoming more widely known as a way to generate code to be compiled and used alongside hand-written code. Frameworks such as the Entity Framework V4 have adopted it for its code generation, allowing you …

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This post will show how LIFTI can be adapted to index and search upon Pascal-cased words, similar to Visual Studio 2010’s Navigate To window. (Or Resharper’s Go to symbol command, if you’re so inclined) The code for this sample can be found in the Lifti solution:* …

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If you’ve created your own authentication service for a Silverlight RIA application, you might encounter the following scenarios:

1. If you get the following errors: GetUser should have returned a single user Logout should have returned a single, anonymous user Then the chances are your implementation of GetDefaultUser …

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Introduction SQL Server provides a really powerful full text index feature whereby you can run queries along the lines of “find me comments that contain the words ‘success’ and ‘happy’”. That’s all well and good when you are using SQL Server to retrieve data, but what do you do if you’re using some other data store, …

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Note that this post could be considered the second part in my previously incredibly short series of 1 posts: Good Uses for SQL Server 2005 Common Table Expressions - previous entries being: Part 1 - Determining the top and bottom n pieces of information in a set Part 0 - Introduction – Ok, so the title of the post is …

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It took me far too long to work this out; I needed to know whether or not it was safe to try and set the ManagedPipelineMode property on an AppPool, and I figured the best way to do it would be to check the current IIS version and if it was 7.0 or above. The code to get the current version is straightforward, once you …

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Update 12/10/2012 - Since the LSS website is no longer active, I’ve moved the download to this site. I’ve just uploaded a little utility onto our website herethe downloads section on this site that should help those developers that write their own MSBuild tasks. One of the nice features that’s a little hidden in …

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Here’s a little macro I’ve just knocked up that will collapse a Visual Studio Solution to just its project definitions - put here so you can use it too and I have access to it everywhere I work! 1 2Sub CollapseToProjects() 3 Dim items As UIHierarchyItems 4 Dim i As Integer 5 6 ' Get the root Solution node 7 items = …

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Previous posts in this series: Part 0 - Introduction Determining the top and bottom n pieces of information in a set This scenario involves a set that has a column with both positive and negative ranges of data. The requirement is to filter it such that the only rows returned are those with the 3 highest positive and 3 …

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A significant portion of my time as a developer is taken up looking into different approaches solving problems with newer technologies. Often it feels like I’m trying to understand the solution to a problem I haven’t yet defined, but I accept this because I look upon it as adding tools to my arsenal that I can draw …

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