Category: Microsoft Visual Studio

When starting Visual Studio 2010, it would hang for about 30 seconds trying to load the toolbox. I found this solution online and it worked for me:

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http://michaelcrump.net/fixing-a-broken-toolbox-in-visual-studio-2010-sp1

I was recently running into a situation where every time I …

How to log SQL when using LINQ to SQLs DataContext

‘Dim LINQ log variables

Private sbLog As New StringBuilder
Private swLog As New StringWriter(sbLog)

‘Execute of LINQ  ** dcNwind is the instantiation of the  DataContext **

dcNwind.Log = swLog

‘To …

Dim mRTFData As String = '{rtf1ansiansicpg1252deff0deflang1033{fonttbl{f0fromanfcharset0 Times New Roman;}{f1fnilfcharset0 Arial;}}
 viewkind4uc1pardsb100sa100f0fs24 BLAH BLAH BLAH rdblquoteparparpardf1par}'
 Dim mStrippedofRTFData As String = String.Empty

If mRTFData.Length > 0 Then
   If (mRTFData IsNot Nothing) AndAlso _
      (mRTFData.Trim().StartsWith("{rtf")) Then
      Using rtfTemp As New System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox()
           rtfTemp.Rtf 

…

When debugging, the actual error states:

Unable to cast object of type ‘System.Object[]’ to type ‘AjaxControlToolkit.CascadingDropDownNameValue[]’.

After doing much research on this issue, it appears everyone’s resolution was to ensure that you included the ‘<WebMethod(), System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptMethod()> _’ above the public …

In my previous blog, I showed you how to check to see if a user was locked out and if so, how to manipulate the FailureText of the Login control to notify the user to contact the admin to fix …

Let’s say you have your web.config set to allow the user only 3 attempts to get the password correct when logging in. After 3 attempts, the profile table sets the isLockedOut column to ‘True’. You want to display this to …

Let’s say you want to keep hidden from a user of your website the actual aspx page name along with any query string passed to it.

Here is an example of a complete url you want to mask:

www.example.com/original.aspx?parameter1=12345

The …

This article assumes you are using roles and have assigned roles to certain users that log in to your website.

Let’s say I have an aspx page with four hyperlinks. I want HyperLink3 and HyperLink4 to be made visible on …

Let’s say I am concatenating a string with values from a collection. Every time I add a value, I want to append with a comma (,) and a space to separate. I don’t know at run time how many objects …

When working with a menu control, I found that Internet Explorer 9 can’t handle setting both the static and dynamic hover style properties of the menu control. It works fine in Chrome and Firefox, but not IE-9.

To make IE-9 …