Below is a summary of the “two top things that cause trouble in production ASP.NET web sites,” per Scott Hanselman, which he obtained from deep within Microsoft Developer Support. Go here to read the complete article. #1 Issue – Configuration Seems the #1 issue in support for problems with ASP.NET 2.x and 3.x is configuration. [...]
I was getting this error when running one of my unit tests: Unit Test Adapter threw exception: The type initializer for ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestConfiguration’ threw an exception.Unable to cast object of type ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestConfigurationSection’ to type ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestConfigurationSection’. The issue was due to a versioning problem in the .config file (I upgraded to VS 2008). The section that you’ll [...]
I’m posting this for archival purposes, as I had to figure it out myself… Windows PowerShell doesn’t appear in Add/Remove Programs nor is there an uninstall shortcut in the Programs menu. So the way to do it uninstall is to check the Show updates option in Add/Remove Programs. Peace! \m/
You can check out the virtual launch for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 here. You never know…Steve Ballmer may have another “developers, developers, developers” sweaty-armpit-speech. And why it’s called Heroes Happen Here, I don’t know. It’s worth looking into though.
Just sign up with your Windows Live/Passport account and you can download all three e-books by Microsoft Press. It includes the following: Enjoy!