2011 – Page 3 – Knowledgebase

How to set the connectionstring at runtime of a dbcontext in Entity Framework 4.2

15 November, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 2 Comments 1 category

If you want to set the connectionstring for a dbcontext, when using EntityFramework 4.2, just create a partial class for the specific dbcontext and add a constructor that call’s de dbcontext constructor with connectionstring. Now

How to determine the absolute path to the root of the website / web service in the Global.asax

15 November, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

If you want to use the absolute path to the root of the website / web service in the Global.asax you can use the property: System.Web.HttpRuntime.AppDomainAppPath

How to determine if a string contains a relative or absolute folder / file path in C#

15 November, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

If you want to determine if a string contains a relative or absolute folder / file path, you can use the System.IO.Path.IsPathRooted function: Console.WriteLine(System.IO.Path.IsPathRooted(@"..\Test.cs")); // Result: False Console.WriteLine(System.IO.Path.IsPathRooted(@"C:\Test.cs")); // Result: True

Add a 1000 separator to a number in a column of a Microsoft Reporting Services tablix

15 November, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

If you want to format the numbers in a column of a tablix in Microsoft Reporting Services, you can use formatting. Just select the tablix cell in the designer and in the properties adjust the

Create table in T-SQL with named primary key and foreign key

11 November, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

Just a simple example of creating a table by using T-SQL: if not exists(select 1 from sys.objects where object_id = object_id(‘Product’)) begin create table [dbo].[Product] ( [Id] [int] not null identity (1,

Solving: CSC: Assembly generation — Referenced assembly ‘mscorlib.dll’ targets a different processor in MSBUILD

10 November, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

I was getting the warning / error in the MSBUILD output CSC: Assembly generation — Referenced assembly ‘mscorlib.dll’ targets a different processor in MSBUILD After setting the [MSBuild Platform] to [X86] in the build

No more setup project template in Microsoft Visual Studio 2011, Microsoft all in on marketplace?

8 November, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

I can’t find setup project templates in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2011 developer preview and Microsoft says the following on the Visual Studio Setup project templates: Future versions of Visual Studio will not

Installing Microsoft Windows 8 on VMWare workstation 8

7 November, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

I was able to successfully install Microsoft Windows 8 as a guest operating system in VMWare Workstation 8 by following the instructions at: http://www.sysprobs.com/guide-install-windows-8-on-vmware-workstation-with-vmware-tools On previous installations of Windows, I would always format the disk

Nice one Microsoft: Internet Explorer 9 will not let me download Visual Studio 11, but Google chrome will.

7 November, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

When I click to download Microsoft Visual Studio 2011 on MSDN in IE 9, the MSDN Subscriptions Download Manager starts and when I click the [Save] button in the "Save As" dialog box:

Solving: Access to the path "…..\*.rptproj.user" is denied in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2

3 November, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 4 Comments 1 category

Solving: Access to the path "…..\*.rptproj.user" is denied. In some cases the *.rptproj.user will be created read-only, uncheck “read-only” on the file and the error will be resolved.

Year: 2011