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Syncing Visual Studio Database Project With Entity Framework

Posted on November 16, 2011

Or: Quirks of Using Entity Designer Database Generation Power Pack If you’re searching for a way to synchronise a “Visual Studio Database Project” (also known as “SQL Server Database Project” or “TSData Project”) with an Entity Framework model, you’ve probably … Continue reading →

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New UK Electricity Pylons?

Posted on September 15, 2011

This video on new pylon designs misses the option of putting the cables underground (or underwater) instead. This would have a higher up front cost but lead to much better looking countryside and probably lower total cost of ownership. The lower total … Continue reading →

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A SPDY end to web site content sharding?

Posted on June 16, 2011

With the advent of Google’s SPDY improvements to the HTTP protocol, could we see an end in sight to the practice of sharding content on web sites? In the news today (from The Register) Google report a 15% increase in … Continue reading →

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EU Cookies Directive & eCommerce Analytics

Posted on March 9, 2011

Article 66 of this set of directives, http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:337:0011:0036:En:PDF, from the Official Journal of the European Union states that: “Third parties may wish to store information on the equipment  of a user, or gain  access to information  already stored, for a … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer 6 – Dying Days?

Posted on August 9, 2010

IE 6 was once the most popular browser on the market. This despite its lack of adherence to standards and its poor rendering performance. These days it’s on the way out, and no-one in IT is mourning it. The graph … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET HTTP 400 Bad Request Exception

Posted on August 8, 2010

Someone on my project pointed me at this useful article from Alois Kraus about the 400 “Bad Request” exception coming from ASP.NET. In particular, it cleared up the way that length checking is performed on a URL in an incoming … Continue reading →

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Setting up a keyboard shortcut for View History in Visual Studio using TFS

Posted on July 4, 2010

Note – this post refers to and is tested with Visual Studio Team System 2008. If you’re using Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server, you’ll probably be viewing the history of files in your solution fairly regularly. Unfortunately there’s no … Continue reading →

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