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Reporting Services and #ERROR in cells

When writing a reporting services report sometimes it is impossible to evaluate all errors in desing...

Author: MarkABrown Date: 02/20/2007

Visual Studio 2005 and Team Foundation Server Recent Updates

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 This download installs Service Pack 1 for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team...

Author: MarkABrown Date: 12/15/2006

Visual Studio Team System Chat - Wed, Nov 8th

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual...

Author: MarkABrown Date: 11/07/2006

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals Resources

Although this is not the official list of resources, I had some questions from people asking where...

Author: MarkABrown Date: 10/09/2006

Recording WebTests with VS2005 Web Test Recorder and IE7 on Vista

ScenarioIf you start Visual Studio 2005 on Vista and create a new web test you may experience that...

Author: MarkABrown Date: 10/03/2006

Long time since last post ...

Sorry for the long time in between posts. My new engagement as a VSTS Ranger at Microsoft is keeping...

Author: MarkABrown Date: 10/02/2006

Difference in MSBUILD from command-line versus IDE (paths and backslashes)

ScenarioHave you ever had problems building from command-line using MSBuild when the IDE builds just...

Author: MarkABrown Date: 07/28/2006

Installing Virtual PC Laptop Hotfix patch on Vista Beta 2 or later

With the new security features of Vista Beta 2 (or later) you may have problems installing Microsoft...

Author: MarkABrown Date: 07/28/2006

MSBuild or Team Build Tasks in the Community

Just thought I would consolidate some resources after my searching for some extensions to MSBuild....

Author: MarkABrown Date: 06/22/2006

How to determine size of .NET managed object in memory (like a sizeof for reference types)

An approximate way to determine the size of object usage in memory can be done by checking the total...

Author: MarkABrown Date: 04/25/2006

Trouble with Virtual Server 2005 (R2) Standard Edition and Network Cards

I was having trouble with Virtual Server 2005 recognizing my host network cards. After many tries of...

Author: MarkABrown Date: 04/19/2006

Problem (Bug) with IE7 Beta and VS2005 Build Style (CSS) Builder

For those running Visual Studio 2005 (VS2005) along side Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Beta you may have...

Author: MarkABrown Date: 03/26/2006

Running SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager and SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Side by Side

I ran across a challenge running SQL 2000 side-by-side with SQL 2005. Scenario Need to run SQL 2005...

Author: MarkABrown Date: 03/18/2006

How to default existing and new IIS websites to ASP.NET 2.0 on Windows Server 2003

This assumes you already have IIS and .Net 2.0 Framework already installed. The following commands...

Author: MarkABrown Date: 03/03/2006

Adding a new Team Foundation Server location when previous server invalid

When you try to select a new TFS location and your previous server name is invalid you may receive...

Author: MarkABrown Date: 02/11/2006

Alternative to

This may seem trivial but interesting. In the world of compliance with XHTML 1.0 the best approach I...

Author: MarkABrown Date: 01/18/2006

Just thought I would jot down some interesting information I ran across while trying troubleshoot...