IdeaBlade DevForce – Model Setup Walk-through – Background

I know the world is about to change in April when VS2010 goes live, however, we are still using VS2008 and will be for at least a few more weeks.  In the hopes that this walk-through provides some insight to someone, even if it is just me, here goes. Background We are  creating a Silverlight … Continue reading IdeaBlade DevForce – Model Setup Walk-through – Background

Mysteries of Silverlight Deployment – Error Code 2104 – Could not download the Silverlight application

So I'm trying to open a newly deployed Silverlight site/app in my browser.  I have the latest version of Silverlight, the files are deployed, the security is configured.  Still, one of my Silverlight apps is downloading to the browser properly, the other one, gives me the following error: Error: Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application Code: … Continue reading Mysteries of Silverlight Deployment – Error Code 2104 – Could not download the Silverlight application

Moving Code from the Developer’s Integration Environment to the QA Environment

When we've completed coding (and, if we're feeling especially adventurous, testing said code), we promote our locally developed code to the Dev server. This serves as our integration environment. CruiseControl.Net watches our SCM for any changes promoted to the DEV branch, then it: Updates the configuration files to point to the Dev server instead of … Continue reading Moving Code from the Developer’s Integration Environment to the QA Environment

Why does he keep saying EDML instead of EDMX?

In the Microsoft Entity Framework (EF), the GUI for the Entity Model is called the Entity Designer.  When you create an Entity Model, the model itself is stored in an XML file named model.EDMX. The EDMX file is:  a) an XML representation of the Entities and Relationships in your Database (the Storage Model, or SSDL), your application … Continue reading Why does he keep saying EDML instead of EDMX?

When Microsoft ate Winternals, where did Disk Commander go?

So I’m trying to make a recovery disk using Bart PE.  My Windows Vista (I know, I know, mock me later) boot partition is HOSED and I can’t get in to Windows.  So I thinks to meself, “this ’ere Bart PE ’as a plugin fer Disk Commander, I wonder if’n that’ll help.”  Turns out Disk … Continue reading When Microsoft ate Winternals, where did Disk Commander go?