I'm not a fan of meta posting but this information was so valuable to me that I wanted to keep track of it on my blog just in case something happens to the original article.

If you are one of the unlucky few (I would like to think there are no many of us) still using Visual Source Safe in 2010, then I bet that you've needed to get a version of your project at a given point in time. It happened to me today again and instead of setting with the "Sorry, SS doesn't support that" I set up to find a solution.

I found an old post by Brennan Stehling with the exact instructions to get a point in time snapshot using Visual Source Safe or using Brennan words: Get by date.

This post from Uncle Bob generated lots of talking on the developer community regarding Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI), which is always good for the sake of  learning and general awarness. Almost every developer with a blog posted about their take on this subject. Two people which I respect a great deal and suscribe to their blogs also posted their reactions, please read Ayende and Davy's blogs for a better understanding of their positions.

What I get from all this, in short, is that Uncle Bob accepts the advantages of using dependency injection but prefers to encapsulate the access to the IoC container on factories. Davy seems to accept this approach on another post...

Today, when writing a function that opens an image, adds a simple text on the top corner and streams the resulting image to the client I noticed that the original image used as template couldn't be renamed or deleted after the code ran for the first time and for as long as the web application remained running. Restarting the web application makes the problem to go away until of course the offending code runs again.

After installing and configuring CruiseControl.NET on my Windows XP development station I was getting a File not Found (HTTP 404) error when trying to see the details of a given build, i.e. selecting Latest Build from the main menu.

Since these URLs don't point to a file in specific but to a "fake" location that is in place handled by CruiseControl.NET I wasn't sure if there was something wrong with the directories I was using on my project's configuration.

First things first: If you think .pdb files are only used when debugging your application locally and are not needed when deploying production binaries, please read the following article by John Robbins: PDB Files: What Every Developer Must Know.

This is one of these things that bother you but not enough to make you take any action about them.

Ever since I started using Visual Studio I've been bother by the fact that if your solution contains multiple web projects, when debugging, an instance of "ASP.NET Development Server" is started for every one of them, even if you have selected a "Single startup project" on your Solution properties.

I'm currently multitasking: writing this post and also running the uninstaller for the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR.I was very excited with all the new features, already planning in my mind how I was going to create new database projects as part of my solutions, how I was going to stop using SQL Management Studio to write stored procedures, how I was going to start deploying my SQL changes as part of my releases until I actually installed the application and tried to use the functionality I need the most from the VS Database Edition: Schema and Data comparisons.After trying for several hours to make it work, excusing the application and blaming the “learning curve” for the lack of progress I just decided to wait until the next version of the GDR is released.Too many things just don’t work when comparing schemas; maybe too much attention was paid to the “new” features and the “old” features that...

I took an old script I had and modified it to:

- Include Schema support.
- Replace the old DBCC DBREINDEX statement with ALTER INDEX ALL.
- Rebuild the indexes online if the Enterprise edition was installed.
- Generate information about the tables processed.

When you try to compile in .Net 2.0 (and up) web pages created using .NET 1.1 and automatically migrated by Visual Studio you may receive an error like this: The name "SampleControl" does not exist in the current context.

If you try to declare the control in your code-behind file you will receive the following error: The type "SamplePage" already contains a definition for "SampleControl".

The solution is very simple - but hard to find - and involves making the Page class partial and moving all control declarations to a .designer file.

This can be done automatically with the following steps:

1- Right click on the .aspx file for the codebehind file that doesn't compile.2- Choose the 'Convert to Web Application' option.This will create a .designer file, and the page will compile.

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Last week I found this site on digg.com it caught my attention and since I was busy at that moment I saved it on my del.icio.us bookmarks to check it out later.This Sunday I had an extra free time - since there is not much to do outside when it feels like -28C outside - and decided to go back to the article.Well this is excellent reference material for any developer/software architect. The video tutorials are excellent and guide you step by step in understanding and implementing the given pattern.Here is the link to the article: http://sourcemaking.com/design-patterns-and-tips...