Mark Brown's Blog
TFS, Visual Studio, SQL Server, BizTalk, SharePoint, .Net, and more ...
Reporting Services and #ERROR in cells
When writing a reporting services report sometimes it is impossible to evaluate all errors in desing...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 02/20/2007
Visual Studio 2005 and Team Foundation Server Recent Updates
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 This download installs Service Pack 1 for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 12/15/2006
Visual Studio Team System Chat - Wed, Nov 8th
Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 11/07/2006
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals Resources
Although this is not the official list of resources, I had some questions from people asking where...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 10/09/2006
Recording WebTests with VS2005 Web Test Recorder and IE7 on Vista
ScenarioIf you start Visual Studio 2005 on Vista and create a new web test you may experience that...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 10/03/2006
Long time since last post ...
Sorry for the long time in between posts. My new engagement as a VSTS Ranger at Microsoft is keeping...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 10/02/2006
Difference in MSBUILD from command-line versus IDE (paths and backslashes)
ScenarioHave you ever had problems building from command-line using MSBuild when the IDE builds just...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 07/28/2006
Installing Virtual PC Laptop Hotfix patch on Vista Beta 2 or later
With the new security features of Vista Beta 2 (or later) you may have problems installing Microsoft...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 07/28/2006
MSBuild or Team Build Tasks in the Community
Just thought I would consolidate some resources after my searching for some extensions to MSBuild....
Author: MarkABrown Date: 06/22/2006
How to determine size of .NET managed object in memory (like a sizeof for reference types)
An approximate way to determine the size of object usage in memory can be done by checking the total...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 04/25/2006
Trouble with Virtual Server 2005 (R2) Standard Edition and Network Cards
I was having trouble with Virtual Server 2005 recognizing my host network cards. After many tries of...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 04/19/2006
Problem (Bug) with IE7 Beta and VS2005 Build Style (CSS) Builder
For those running Visual Studio 2005 (VS2005) along side Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Beta you may have...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 03/26/2006
Running SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager and SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Side by Side
I ran across a challenge running SQL 2000 side-by-side with SQL 2005. Scenario Need to run SQL 2005...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 03/18/2006
How to default existing and new IIS websites to ASP.NET 2.0 on Windows Server 2003
This assumes you already have IIS and .Net 2.0 Framework already installed. The following commands...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 03/03/2006
Adding a new Team Foundation Server location when previous server invalid
When you try to select a new TFS location and your previous server name is invalid you may receive...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 02/11/2006
Alternative to
This may seem trivial but interesting. In the world of compliance with XHTML 1.0 the best approach I...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 01/18/2006
SQL Server Startup Issue related to TDSSNIClient error 0x7e status 0x60
Just thought I would jot down some interesting information I ran across while trying troubleshoot...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 01/18/2006
Drag and Drop between Outlook Attachments and Sharepoint Document Library
Did you know that you can drag your Outlook file attachment directly into Sharepoint? It is...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 01/17/2006
How to update SQL TEXT or NTEXT from VARCHAR or NVARCHAR in SQL 2005
With SQL Server 2005 a new concept was introduced ... varchar(MAX) and nvarchar(MAX). This allows...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 01/17/2006
Troubleshooting a MSDTC issue between Windows XP SP2/SP1 + SQL 2005 and Windows 2003 SP1 + SQL 2000
I was happily coding a solution for common problem of writing data in a distributed transaction...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 12/30/2005
How to use VS2005/.NET 2.0 with WSS SP2
Please note that these instructions are for informational purposes and standard procedures apply...
Author: MarkABrown Date: 12/30/2005