Unable to Start Apache - Xampp
Hey everyone, I was mucking around with xampp this morning and ran into the following issue with apache: 3:41:52 PM [main] Initializing Control Panel 3:41:52 PM…
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Resources for Mocking WCF
Hey everyone, Just a few links I came across for mocking WCF in case anyone else needs them. This tutorial was great: http://weblogs.asp.net/cibrax/unit-tests-for-wcf…
Read postNo Entity Framework provider found for the ADO.NET provider with invariant name 'System.Data.SqlClient' - MVC5
Hey everyone, Just an error I came across while trying to use a new solution project: No Entity Framework provider found for the ADO.NET provider with invariant name…
Read postChange Default MVC5 Password Complexity Requirements - Passwords must have at least one non letter or digit character. Passwords must have at least one digit ('0'-'9'). Passwords must have at least one uppercase ('A'-'Z')
Hey everyone, I’ve started on a new MVC5 project and came across the following error message while trying to register a new user: Passwords must have at least one non…
Read postUnescape String in Watch Window - Visual Studio
Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to remove the escape characters from a string in the watch window. All you’ve got to do is append “,nq” (short for no quotes)…
Read postHow to Open the Same File Twice in Visual Studio
Hey everyone, Today I was working on a fairly large class and needed to compare two different areas of code. I’m used to using text editors such as notepad++ and…
Read postView Generated SQL in Entity Framework (EF)
Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to view the generated sql in entity framework. To start with, just add the following line to your db context constructor: With…
Read postDragging a File from File Explorer Causes Google Chrome to Crash
Hey everyone, A team member found an interesting bug today that caused chrome to go non-responsive. The cause was simply dragging a file from the file explorer onto a…
Read postHow to Open the Same File Twice in Visual Studio
Hey everyone, I was working on a fairly large class in visual studio and having a bit of trouble comparing two different areas within it. Thankfully, StackOverflow…
Read postHow to stop text taking up more than one line - CSS
Hey everyone, Just a quick post on how to stop text taking up more than one line using only CSS: You can check it out using this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/wb5m7/…
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