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Dotnet development

Remove titlebarbuttons from Visual Studio 2013

Hack the registery [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0_Config\MainWindowFrameControls]. I removed the Feedback Button, UserNotifications Badge and User Information Card with the registry hack. There is an Option in Visual Studio to hide the Quick Launch or I could use the registry to hide that. And finally a clean development environment. Continue reading

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Could not find a concrete type mapped to MappingAdded

In a handler I tried to publish an event. But the exception Could not find a concrete type mapped to MappingAdded is thrown.
The problem here is that FakeDbSet uses an older version of EntityFramework. Make sure all project reference the same EntityFramework version or remove your unneeded DbContext. Continue reading

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Nuget trouble

Keeping the versions of packages in sync was difficult today. My MVC website must load and display a controller / view from another project. The assembly is in the bin folder and the objects are loaded using Structuremap. When running … Continue reading

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Correct CSV files with ghost quotes

Last week I helped out a colleague of the Business Intelligence team. Some CSV input files contained extra quotes (“) in text fields. That threw off the import because the quote is also used to surround strings. Below the regular … Continue reading

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Migrate WCF to be hosted in Azure

One of the reasons I started this blog was to share my (work) experience and give back to the internet. On my last project I migrated WCF services to be hosted in Windows Azure. With the right structure in place this was shockingly easy. Continue reading

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