Next month, the TechDays edition 2012 (14-15-16 february) will take place in Belgium. The last three years, the event passed in Antwerp, but now they are moving to a new location. Kinepolis Imagibraine in Braine l'Alleud (Eigenbrakel).The location isn't that important.The hard thing will be, to pick out the most interesting sessions, because there any ......

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I remember myself a tweet from Scott Hanselman a couple of months ago, where he asked us to check out a small application he wrote. As one of the first testers of his new "thing", I was interested but there were no documentation or libs available yet. A couple of days a go, I read a blogpost from Maarten Balliauw about SignalR. (Maarten's blog). Because ......

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To add a new role into my aspnet database, I tried to use the asp.net Web Application Administration Website. But it was showing the following error message:An error was encountered. Please return to the previous page and try again. Strange, because I was sure, that my connectionstring was correct.After a while, after reading about the asp.net Web Application ......

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I played a bit with WCF and security, but I had some trouble to create certificates between the server and the client.This article helped me out:9 simple steps to enable X.509 certificates on WCF ......

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When a user post's data to the server, the page will be reloaded. When the user hits the F5/refresh button, a message appears, which tells us, that we´ve allready sended the data to the server. And asks us if we want to sent it again. If the user clicks "yes", we have to catch that, we don´t want this in our application - check that the user can only ......

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A couple of years ago, I used 'something' to encrypt the connectionstring on a production server. But I never wrote anything down about it. And in the other projects I did later, I never had deploy to the production server. Yesterday, I had to use it again but I couldn't find it. Why? Because I never wrote about it. This blogpost is copy of Chirag Darji ......

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Just to remember:

 

when you want a new guid:

Dim g As New Guid()

--> the value of g is empty

Just call:

Dim g As Guid = Guid.NewGuid()

and everything works fine!

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Last, I needed a function to add paging. The first problem I had, was how to this. A couple of seconds later, I allready had a solution to this problem: Linq Skip and take will do the trick. list<t>.Skip(_howMany... This won't crash if you pass one of both statements. It will just return ......

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Last saturday I participated the Code Retreat organised by Agileminds.be There were 6 code retreats at the same moment arround the world. In Belgium, UK, Spain, USA and 2 in Romania. We all had the same challenge, to implement the Conway's Game of Life. By writing beautiful code, using TDD . For me, TDD is a new thing. I allready read about it, but ......

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The next community day event will be on 23rd of June. I will attend this event. Spread the word about this free event and subscribe! For more information: www.communityday.be www.snowball.be/2011/04/21/... ......

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