Where are the debugging visualizers from 2005? Why are they not in 2008? I found them!!!

Well technically I didn't find them. I found an article that told me where they were.
Here is an article with a link to the dlls and how to integrate them:

http://www.codeplex.com/WCFVisualizer

Hope this helps you. If you have any tips, tricks, or resources that you think the group would be
interested in please email them to Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com

Error - The web services enumeration components are not available

I got this very error and Joel Alexandre came up with the solution:

Error - The web services enumeration components are not available
Published by
Joel Alexandre
1 year, 10 months ago
in .NET, Programming, Web and Windows.
In Visual Studio 2005, if you get this following message - The web services enumeration components are not available. You need to reinstall Visual Studio to add web references to your application - try running this from the prompt: devenv /resetskippkgs

Lots of Windows Tools

Thanks to the B.B. the Guitar Hero for this one.

List of utils:
http://bhandler.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!1231.entry?wa=wsignin1.0

List of stuff for Vista:
http://bhandler.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!1844.entry

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Detecting an Ajax Async PostBack on page_load

I had to search a few times to find this. People were giving very unique answers but this one is the correct one:

if(!ScriptManager.GetCurrent(this).IsInAsyncPostBack)
{
//code when it is a sync postback
}
else
{
//code when it is an async postback
}

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Finding what version of dlls an exe is referencing

If you are getting an error about a version of a dll not matching when you run the exe then you need to get the right version of the dll. The way to find the dll version is to use an application like:


http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/

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Object Dumper: An invaluable library when learning Linq or simply to figure out what an object is doing.

I came across this interesting library as part of the LINQ samples. Its called the Object Dumper. Basically it uses reflection on your object and dumps the results to the console for you.

The object dumper is a small utility library that comes with the LINQ CTP
samples. It basically iterates through the properties using reflection and dumps
the values to the console window. You can find the source at C:\Program
Files\LINQ Preview\Samples\ObjectDumper in the C# download.Jim
Wooley http://devauthority.com/blogs/jwooley/default.aspx

This is invaluable when you have a chunk of code you are developing and currently don't have a ui. You are simply developing the data layer and business rules layer. This object will spit out the results for you. Afterwards you could run a winmerge or other compare tool on the object at start and stop and see what changed. This is extremely valuable if your object trees are really large.

If you come across any tips, tricks, tools, code snippets that you find useful please email them to me at susan@clinchportal.com and I will post them for the group.

Mole - debug visualizer for visual studio

Take a peek at this replacement debug visualizer for visual studio... the new version allows updating values during debug. I've been using it for a few days and it's got great drill down for collections and datasets.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/MoleForVisualStudioEdit.aspx#Update

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