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Using Visual SourceSafe 2005 with Visual Studio 2010

You may notice that when you attempt to add your solution to a source control in Visual Studio 2010, that it only shows a TFS server as a choice. Don’t be alarmed, however, just: 1. Go to Tools > Options. 2. Click Show all settings if not checked, then go to Source Control. 3. Go [...]

Web Service Reference in Visual Studio 2010

If you’ve used Visual Studio 2008 or 2010, you’ll notice that Web Reference is no longer there (like in VS 2005 and previous), instead, you see Service Reference –- actually, it’s STILL there, just hidden! So, what’s the difference?  Well, according to this post: Add Web Reference is the old-style, deprecated ASP.NET webservices (ASMX) technology [...]

How to configure source control for Visual Studio

Reference for jsSHA

jsSHA – A JavaScript implementation of the complete Secure Hash Standard family (SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512) by Brian Turek About ————————- jsSHA is a javaScript implementation of the complete Secure Hash Algorithm family as defined by FIPS PUB 180-2 (http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-2/fips180-2withchangenotice.pdf) With the slow phasing out of MD5 as the standard hash to use [...]

Fix to "The handle is invalid" error when ASP.NET writes to the Eventlogs

Have you ever come across the error below with one of your ASP.NET web apps that is trying to write to the Eventlogs? If so, read on… By default the ASPNET user cannot access the existing eventlogs categories. To resolve this, you must set the permissions in the Eventlog key in the registry: Launch RegEdit. [...]