Technical Weblog of Eric Charran
A Journal of My Technical Achievements and Challenges
Passing Credentials to a Web Service
When calling a secured web service it is important to code the application to explicitly pass the...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 05/15/2006
How to Configure a Domain Account for IIS Application Pool
Here are some instructions on how to configure an IIS Application Pool to run as a domain account....
Author: Eric Charran Date: 05/15/2006
MSDN Magazine Archive as CHM Files
This post is for my own reference as many of you know that you can download MSDN magazine articles...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 05/15/2006
Also Blogging from Word 2007
This weblog entry is a test post as well as an announcement to indicate that I am blogging from Word...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 05/13/2006
VSMDI Files and Team Foundation Server Build
A .vsmdi file is a meta data file related to a solution that contains information about any tests...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 05/11/2006
Enabling Continuous Integration with Team Foundation Server
The link below goes to a great article on how to enable Continuous Integration (triggering a build...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 05/11/2006
How to Extend Team Foundation Build
This is an excellent article on how to extend the build capabilities of Team Foundation Server to...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 05/11/2006
Turn off Debug=true Please!
I always knew that debug=true in the web config of an ASP.NET project was bad karma. However, this...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 04/29/2006
Check Out New Samples for Visual Studio 2005
Ever have to do a specific type of task for a project? Check this site first to see if its already...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 04/28/2006
How to Change the Data Warehouse Processing Interval in Team Foundation Server
I recently had a client that wanted to increase the processing interval for the data warehouse in...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 04/26/2006
Handy Tips for the Treo 700W User
Odly enough, these tips come right from the Smartphone section of the 700w Palm site! The coolest...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 04/24/2006
Seeing Double
You might recognize some of my following posts as older ones from SessionState.com. Now that I work...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 04/20/2006
Blog Tools
I'm not sure if I wrote about this before, but PostXING is a great blog tool alternative for desktop...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 04/20/2006
SQL Server 2005 Feature Pack and Downloads
The feature pack is a set of separate downloads that allow you to install components of SQL Server...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 04/19/2006
Retrieve Deleted Items in Team Foundation Server
From a client perspective in Team Explorer, the following link indicates how to view and retreive...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 04/18/2006
How to Delete a Team Foundation Project
In order to delete a team foundation project, you have to use a command line utility called...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 04/07/2006
Performance Wizard Error
When attempting to use the performance wizard against an ASP.NET project you receive an error like...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 04/06/2006
Failed to enable constraints. One or more rows contain values violating non-null, unique, or foreign-key constraints
This issue occurs if there are errors with the referential integrity between data tables in a typed...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 04/03/2006
Search MSDN Blogs
You can now search MSDN Blogs!...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/30/2006
ASP.NET 2.0 Web Folders
Trying to figure out how to place objects into your web folder hierarchy in ASP.NET 2.0? Here is an...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/29/2006
ASP.NET 2.0 Web Folders
Trying to figure out how to place objects into your web folder hierarchy in ASP.NET 2.0? Here is an...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/29/2006
Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 and Sending Large Files via Web Services
Better late to the party than never! I'm finally getting a chance to use WSE 3.0. The download can...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/29/2006
Debugging From an ASP.NET Web Form to a Web Service using Typed DataSets
When attempting to step into a web service when a Typed DataSet is passed as a parameter to the web...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/28/2006
Load Test in Team Foundation Server
I recently began working with the Load Tests in Visual Studio 2005. So far, the way we did this is...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/23/2006
Increase MSBuild Verbosity for Project Build Output
We recently ran into a problem where the aspnet_merge process was failing. The default output...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/22/2006
Upgrading from Team Foundation Server RC to RTM
Because of some of the database changes, there will be a manual component when upgrading from TFS RC...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/21/2006
Excluding the Bin Folder From Source Control in a Web Project
When creating a web project in Visual Studio .NET 2005, the bin folder gets exposed to source...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/21/2006
CLR Profiler 2.0
Here is a link to the CLR Profiler 2.0. It allows for the ability to look inside executing...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/14/2006
"Principal Name for the VMRC Server" Error Message
Since I primarily work disconnected from the domain, I occasionally have prolbems connecting to the...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/10/2006
Determining ASP.NET Application Paths
A client recently asked me how to determine from any specific point in the virtual directory...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/09/2006
.NET Applicaiton Performance
I conduct many architectural reviews and am responsible for making recommendations on a daily basis...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/08/2006
Web Form Inheritance in .NET 2.0
Because of the changes to the compilation model and structure of aspx pages in .NET 2.0, page...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/07/2006
How to Unlock a File in Team Foundation Server
We've all been in the situation before when a developer goes away for a long weekend (usually...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/06/2006
Connection Pooling Scope and Behavior
I recently ran into a question regarding the scope of connection pools that .NET creates when...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/06/2006
Use Solution Folders to Organize Your Solutions
Based on the previous post, if you have an SOA project, you could have multiple project files as...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/03/2006
How to deploy a Web Project in Visual Studio .NET 2.0
With the multiple compilation options that ASP.NET offers in 2.0, I usually choose the single file...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/03/2006
ThreadAbortException and Response.Redirect
Some time ago, I developed an application framework for a company which relied on dynamically loaded...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/03/2006
Rebind a .mpp Project File to the new Team Foundation Server
See the following URL for instructions on how to rebind a .mpp file to a new TFS...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/03/2006
Using Settings in Test Projects
There are many ways to enhance testing projects in your Visual Studio solution. From simple unit...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 03/03/2006
Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets
For the uninitiated, VS 2005 Code Snippets are time-saving bits of code that the IDE allows...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/28/2006
MSDN as CHM Files and CHM File Errors
MSDN Articles can now be viewed and downloaded for 2006 in chm format!...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/27/2006
Returning an Oracle Data Set using Enterprise Library 2.0 - Part 2
If you need to return multiple tables in a data set from Oracle with then enterprise library, you...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/17/2006
Returning an Oracle Data Set using Enterprise Library 2.0
We recently ran into some challenges returning the results of a stored procedure from Oracle using...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/17/2006
Enable Dynamic Port = False on Web [Service] Projects
When developing a web site with web service references recently, we had difficulty checking the code...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/15/2006
Re: Team Foundation Server Things to Remember
Thanks to davidacoder for pointing out that based on this post:...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/13/2006
Team Foundation Server Things to Remember
There are several things to remember about Team Foundation Server. One of the more important aspects...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/13/2006
How To Delete Work Items in Team Foundation Server
The scoop here is that for various reasons, (i.e., database integrity, data and relationship reasons...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 02/13/2006
Installing BizTalk Server 2004
This is an old post from my pre-Microsoft blog from https://www.sessionstate.com. Installing BizTalk...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/20/2006
Enterprise Library 2.0 MSDN Article
The Enterprise Library from the patterns and practices group for .NET 2.0 has been documented. I've...
Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/13/2006
Federated Database Design
Federated database design relates to carrying service oriented architecture into the database layer....
Author: Eric Charran Date: 01/12/2006