One of my team member, kunal, was facing a problem while creating the setup project for v 20 using VS 2008. Even after just changing the target framework while creating the project did no help so had to search for the solution, and the solution that solved our problem is as follows, 1) Create a windows application project with target framework as v2.0 Select Target Framework 2) Create Setup and deployment project and select target framework as v2.0 Target Framework for Setup 3) Right-Click on setup project Name and select Properties, under properties select Prerequisites Select Prerequistes ...

I have been getting good response for my post Integrating blog engine into existing site. One of the guy asked me this question on how can we do the opposite? He had a BlogEngine as parent site and needed some other site to be child of BlogEngine. So He posted on that and this is the answer he got for his question. You need to make this change in your web.config file. If you want to have a website as child of BlogEngine <location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false"> <system.web> ..... existing content ..... </system.web> </location> <location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false"> ...

Many a time while developing a web application you may come accross “Server application unavailable” When you get this error in Windows XP make sure you have given ASPNET user sufficient rights on your physical application folder, it mainly requires read permission. When you get this error in Windows 2003 server you can right click your virtual directory – permission – grant aspnet user sufficient rights there.

Understanding existing, and writing new, code As the complexity of applications grows so does the challenge of understanding the code that you’re working on. With Visual Studio 2010 the IDE provides integrated support for understanding what is happening in the code section that you’re viewing. The editor in Visual Studio 2010 has been rebuilt using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) technology. WPF enables the editor to richly present information about the code in the context of presenting the actual source. This ability enables features such as the “Document Map Margin” to render a...

Hi Guys, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 CTP in October. You’ll be amazed with the download size its near about 7 GB. You can download it from here. After you download you’ll run the .exe file to extract the setup and the setup is of the .vhd format that is Virtual PC hard disk. So you’ll need Virtual PC to run Visual Studio 2010. But, but, but guys please check out the minimum requirement for this CTP to run. Hard disk space required is 75 GB, yes, its not 7.5 but 75 GB. Well that’s not true you can have this CTP run if you have upto 25 GB on one drive. When you...