Henry Kenuam

Debugging Tip

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:38:30 GMT

Recently one of my colleagues (Dukes) and I were developing a module and he is one of those guys who has memorized every keyboard shortcut for Visual Studio and I noticed him "Attaching to a Process" (CTRL + ALT + P). Me being a traditional style developer I have always just reloaded the application using the trusty F5. We were involved in some client specific business logic and I just made a mental note at the time.

Recently, I've started using the Attach to Process (then select aspnet_wp.exe and Attach) as the way to test logic and I have to say that it is much faster than F5 even with cached authentication information and not logging in each time.

If you are like me and you are a habitual F5er, give attach to process a try, old habits are hard to break but this one will save you a significant amount of time over the course of a day, week or your career!

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Team System Source Control - Get Latest on Checkout

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:16:22 GMT

While in Vegas I attended a few sessions in the Architect track regards Team System future versions and in one of the sessions I learned that the next version of Team System will include a new configurable setting for Getting Lastest on Checkout. This paradigm was introduced with the first version and developers have in many cases struggled to adjust. Here are some links with more information.

OpenForce07 - Las Vegas

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:56:14 GMT

The event in Las Vegas was good to say the least, I'm suffering a bit from information overload...

Membership Provider Video - Part I

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:07:00 GMT

In a previous blog I had posted a document to help developers get started implementing their own provider. This video is aimed at helping those who have had trouble getting their environments setup correctly and issues with the web.config file. I am working on a second video that will walk through modifications required in the code. Coming soon!

http://www.engagemodules.com/Support/Tutorials/tabid/74/Default.aspx

Please post any questions or comments at:

http://www.engagemodules.com/Support/Forums/tabid/57/forumid/4/scope/threads/Default.aspx

See previous blog post here

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Database Diagram doesn't work in SQL Server 2005????

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:08:00 GMT

How many times have you upgraded a 2000 database to find that the Diagramming Feature doesn't work? Worse yet, you get an error that leads you down the yellow brick road to no where....

Using Web Deployment Projects/MSBuild to build private assemblies for DNN

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:17:00 GMT

I recently had to create a private assemblypackage for one of our modules and in doing so I ran into problems that caused me to spend a day of my life that I will never get back. I thought I would share this and possibly save someone the pain that it has caused me.

Tulsa Techfest

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:18:00 GMT

I attended the event over the weekend and was very impressed. Great hosts and good people in Tulsa OK.

Building your own Membership Provider for DotNetNuke and ASP.NET 2.0

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:31:00 GMT

I decided to create a document that would help developers get started building a new Membership Provider for DNN. If you are looking for a good place to get started this is the place.

Microsoft VS Team for Database Professionals

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:52:00 GMT

With little fanfare, Microsoft released a killer app for database developers: Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. Check out the quick 5 minute video on Channel 9... http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=235260

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Deploying ASP.NET 2.0 web services with AJAX

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:22:00 GMT

Here's an interesting thing we discovered when deploying an ASP.Net 2.0 site using AJAX calls (using HTTP POST). In order to enable HTTP POST's for your web service you have to modify the web.config file to add the following:

PROTOCOLS>

WEBSERVICES>

(NOTE: if you are using SOAP or GET calls there are add parameters for those as well ( ).

I don't recall having to make these changes for .Net 1.1. Also, it's easy to get tricked here because it works in development environments.

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