The Problem: You are attempting to import json data into your web application, but you continue to get weird errors. Here is what the json data looked like
[{"entry":{"tags":[{"name":"Web Development","billable":true,"id":117906}],”created_at”:”2011-02-04T01:00:28Z”,”billable”:true,”minutes”:150,”updated_at”:”2011-02-04T01:00:40Z”,”recently_updated_at”:”2011-02-04T01:00:40Z”,”project_id”:40401,”import_id”:null,”url”:null,”time_to”:null,”id”:670893,”date”:”2011-02-02″,”user_id”:12914,”formatted_description”:””,”description_text”:””,”time_from”:null,”description”:”Web Development”,”invoiced_at”:null,”project_invoice_id”:null}},{“entry”:{“tags”:[{"name":"Web Development","billable":true,"id":117906}],”created_at”:”2011-02-04T01:04:42Z”,”billable”:true,”minutes”:180,”updated_at”:”2011-02-04T01:04:42Z”,”recently_updated_at”:”2011-02-04T01:04:42Z”,”project_id”:40401,”import_id”:null,”url”:null,”time_to”:null,”id”:670909,”date”:”2011-02-01″,”user_id”:12914,”formatted_description”:””,”description_text”:””,”time_from”:null,”description”:”Web Development”,”invoiced_at”:null,”project_invoice_id”:null}},{“entry”:{“tags”:[{"name":"Web Development","billable":true,"id":117906}],”created_at”:”2011-02-04T01:11:13Z”,”billable”:true,”minutes”:60,”updated_at”:”2011-02-04T01:11:13Z”,”recently_updated_at”:”2011-02-04T01:11:13Z”,”project_id”:40401,”import_id”:null,”url”:null,”time_to”:null,”id”:670914,”date”:”2011-01-31″,”user_id”:12914,”formatted_description”:””,”description_text”:””,”time_from”:null,”description”:”Web Development”,”invoiced_at”:null,”project_invoice_id”:null}}]
The Cause: The json is not in the format you think it should be in While it looks like you would get each record back, you get one solid blob.
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The Problem: You attempt to create a new Coded User Interface Test in Visual Studio 2010, and you get the following error:
The following package failed to load: C:Users[File Path Goes Here]Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Extension.IE.dll. Coded UI Test is now in an inconsistent state. Remove this package and restart Visual Studio to work with Coded UI Test.
The Cause: For whatever reason, Visual Studio does not copy Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Extension.IE.dll into the solution, and but it thinks it did.
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The Problem: You attempt to do a query using Linq To Entities and your code does not work.
The Cause: For reasons unknown, Linq to Entities has different operators than Linq To Sql.
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The Problem: You are attempting to create create an asp.net mvc 3 page with razor that uses an upload control. You try to upload an image and all you get is a “server not available” error. Not very descriptive it it?
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I pieced all of this together from various sources online, so the code is a bit rough, but here it is:
1. Create a partial razor view, call it _NotifyBar.cshtml, it contains this:
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The Problem: You need to put a relatively complicated link (i.e. the link has more than one parameter) into an asp.net gridview column.
The Cause: No cause really, you just need to know the exact syntax
The Solution:
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The Problem: You attempt to use the super-cool new charting features in asp.net mvc 3, and all you get is compilation errors
The Cause: You are using the old school System.Web.UI.DataVisualization.Charting.Chart namespace
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The Cause: It is too short and simple, and easily forgotten
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I recently had the need to create a Microsoft Word document from a template. I initially tried using Office Web Components and Interop but all that really wasn’t worth the trouble. I wound up doing global replacements in the html of html Here is how I did it:
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