Ben Griswold on July 31st, 2008

When you first access your SVN repository you are given the option to save your authentication information.   Nice feature, right?   Well, what if you need to access the repository via different credentials? 
Here’s the trick:

Right-click on the root folder
Select TortoiseSVN
Select Settings
Navigated to Saved Data
Clear the stored Authentication Data

The next time you need to access the [...]

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Ben Griswold on July 30th, 2008

NDepend is a static analyzer that simplifies the management of a complex .NET code base. Architects and developers can analyze code structure, specify design rules, plan massive refactoring, do effective code reviews and compare different versions of the code. The result is better communication, improved quality, easier maintenance and faster development.  Sounds good, eh?
Full disclosure: [...]

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Ben Griswold on July 29th, 2008

The folks I work with are wicked smart.  Go back and read that first sentence again.  This time read it like you are Ben Affleck in Good Will Hunting or one of the guys I used to play summer ball with outside of Boston. Fun right?  Anyway, the point is I work with really smart [...]

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Ben Griswold on July 28th, 2008

For the first time in years, I needed to distribute my application to the end user’s machine via an online download.  To do this effectively and professionally, I, of course, needed an install package.  Over the year, I have used both Wise and InstallShield but they both cost money and I don’t recall them being [...]

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Ben Griswold on July 25th, 2008

There’s a ton of information online about exporting a DataGrid or GridView to Excel, but most variations do not consider the GridView may reside within an UpdatePanel.  It goes without saying, but I was disappointed when I recently dusted off my “Export GridView to Excel” code snippet and encountered a number of exceptions.  So I [...]

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Ben Griswold on July 25th, 2008

This morning I needed to compose a very simple SQL routine and it took me around five compiles until I got the syntax right.  All I needed to do was transfer an active status from one entity (in my case a computer) to another.  I decided to implement this by updating the same table in [...]

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Ben Griswold on July 22nd, 2008

I’ve previously written about managing your Subversion repositories via the TortoiseSVN client.  TortoiseSVN integrates with Windows Explorer and provides a really slick way to do things like view the status of your source code, update your Subversion working copy and commit change.
But as slick as it is, TortoiseSVN requires one to bounce between their IDE [...]

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Ben Griswold on July 9th, 2008

I can’t possibly count the number of times the beautiful “Firefix has stopped working” message has popped up over the past two weeks. 

Sometimes, when the coding gods are smiling down on me, I am lucky enough to get the Restore Session / Start New Session prompt after I “Close program” and relaunch.  The majority of [...]

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