Not Everything Is 80-20
There is a useful observation about the world that is often applied to software development called the Pareto principle or Pareto’s law. This principle suggests that in many situations 80% of the results …
SharePoint REST API
Had some issues before using the SharePoint REST API, well, actually using the jquery implementations. Been struggling with the basics to get user profile properties. Some methods and examples suggest …
New Dev Center lifetime registration and benefits program
Nice to see MS joined the party: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/09/17/new-dev-center-lifetime-registration-benefits-program/ This month we are releasing several new features to enhance your developmentexperience: the lifetime Dev Center account, and the new Dev Center …
-5036: Internal build error
Sometimes when using InstallShield to build a new setup project in Visual Studio you can get the following error: -5036: Internal build error The InstallShield lists some basics to test …
The Windows Phone Emulator wasn’t able to create the virtual machine: Something happened while creating a switch: Xde couldn’t find an IPv4 address for the host machine
Busy with some Windows Phone 8 development. Got this off the bat when starting the emulator. Not sure if it is a fix all but the following worked for me: …
Attempted to use an object that has ceased to exist
I get this error when adding a new web part to a custom page. Generally the exception is related to code that does not dispose properly. I double checked repeatedly …
Illegal operation attempted on a registry key marked for deletion
Came across this yesterday and had me stumped for a couple of hours. I have a simple SharePoint web part that calls a web services on another server that gets …
SQL Server: HDD vs SSD
Nice article on SQL Server running on a HDD vs a SSD. I am sure there are loads of more technical articles available, but nice to read something simple and …
jquery ajax return value limit
I have been playing a bit with jquery and ajax and came across a very interesting “by design” issue. I built a simple responsive HTML page that populates a data …
Find something in a Stored Procedure
Forgive me if this is something old (like using a…well using statement in SQL). I remember a time when you had to download some obscure freeware application to scan through …