If you want to try F# programming in Visual Studio 2017 (or 2019 for that matter), here's what you might want to do to optimize Visual Studio to run optimally on your machine. From the menu, go to Tools and select Options. Under Debugging, set the Enable script debugging to True. Under Misc, set 64-bit F# Interactive to True (if you use 64-bit Windows OS). Set F# Interactive options to the … [Read more...]
How to Fix Obsolete ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig API
When you're upgrading code from .NET Framework 1.1 to 2.0, you will get a few warnings if you use an obsolete API such as ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig, you may see something similar to this: To which you have to replace it with ConfigurationManager.GetSection(). Or the same way with ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings.Get() to ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get(). The problem is after … [Read more...]
Migrating ASP.NET 1.1 to Windows Server 2012
With Microsoft cutting the support for Windows 2003 by July 2015, many legacy web applications built with .NET Framework 1.1 have to be migrated to a newer Windows Server 2012 R2. The dilemma is that .NET Framework 1.1 is no longer supported (it's not even possible to manually install the .NET Framework 1.1 on these platforms) on Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2. The proposed … [Read more...]
How to Setup SQL Express LocalDB in ASP.NET
Microsoft SQL Server Express LocalDB should be used in place of the SQL Server Express user instance feature which is deprecated. It is more suitable for developers as it runs on-demand (instead as a service) with your Windows credential and without the need the need of complex configurations. In Visual Studio 2013, if you want to have it setup a default database using a SQL Server LocalDb in … [Read more...]
How to Override Telerik RadGrid CSS
If you use Telerik's RadGrid but don't want to use the default styling template, there's a quick way to apply your own CSS style to it. This may not be as sophisticated as using the skinning feature, but it surely does the trick. The first thing we need to do is to write the custom css style, then assign it to CssClass attribute within the RadGrid markup. We also need to add Skin attribute … [Read more...]