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Visual Studio Training Materials

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Read the first chapter in Microsoft Visual Studio Tips book from Safari Online.

Visual Studio training kits:

Installing DoNetNuke Community Edition on my development machine. Ran into security problems while loading the software. C:\InetPub\ needs security permissions added for ‘IIS AppPool\DefaultAppPool’. See hereand herefor more information.

Microsoft Visual Studio Tips Part 1 – Basic Editing and Navigation

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Here are some notes taken from the book Visual Studio Tipsby Sara Ford.

0-0: Look Up, Change, or Create shortcuts

  • Tools | Options (select all settings) | Environment-Keyboard | (Press shortcut-keys:)

Press the short-cut key you want to know what it does, and it will be displayed in the box below or enter the command in the (Show commands containing:) and it will show the short-cut.

1-1: Not accidentally copying blank lines

  • Tools | Options | Text Editor | All Languages | General | Uncheck the (Apply Cut or Copy commands to blank lines when there is no selection)

This will prevent the editor from clearing the clipboard when you accidentally hit Ctrl+C on a blank line.

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Implementing BlogEngine.Net for HCMGA

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I’ve decided to implement BlogEngine.Net on the Harris County Master Gardener website. This is a website I developed as a way for the Master Gardeners to update their profiles and keep track of their volunteer hours.

I use subversion to track changes to the website. It’s free and it works great! You can read all about it here: http://subversion.tigris.org/ There are basically 3 things you need to install to get it going for your development environment:

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Installing BlogEngine.Net

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Over the past several months, I’ve been wanting to start a journal to keep track of all the encounters of my daily programmer life. Until now, I’ve mainly used Microsoft Outlook’s Journal feature. This works fine, but it doesn’t publish it for all the world to see. What if I actually do discover something useful for others to get some good out of it? I could have taken the easy route and just used an existing blog site or facebook I suppose. But, since I’m in learning mode, why not set up my own website, with my own personal blog? What a cool idea, right? So I set off googling and stumbled upon BlogEngine.Net. This link gives you some more choices of what’s currently out there: http://csharp-source.net/open-source/bloggers It’s a customizable open source ASP.Net blog application written C#. Link to BlogEngine.Net .

For the sake of this blog entry, I’ve already got my environment ready to go.

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