The session Id is written to a cookie only when Session.SessionId is called, in my current project we don’t use many sessions in the application but they are used by some partial views to pass data around. Because Session.SessionId is not called before the page is flushed, when the view decides tha... [More]

Before this morning I didn’t know what jQuery.noConflict() was, all I knew was some code I had ‘borrowed’ had broken all the JavaScript on a site I was working on. This was because jQuery.noConflict() disables the $ selector and means rather than doing $(‘#YourId&rsqu... [More]

I got this strange error this morning after creating some new gifs in Adobe CS4, basically when ever the images were loading i was getting prompted for a username and password. I fixed the error by changing the file security to be read by everyone.

A few minutes ago I got the following error: Error    1    API restriction: The assembly 'file:///C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies\Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework.dll' has already loaded from a different l... [More]

Assert.Fail failed. Assert.Equals should not be used for Assertions. Please use Assert.AreEqual & overloads instead. I just got above error message… I used Assert.Equals(product.ProductId, productId); but actually the equals is not an assertion it’s just part of the object. I should have used A... [More]

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe stared throwing this error after my blue screen crashes. It was cause because my machine crashed whilst SourceSafe was modifying my user settings. To fix the issue all you have to do is go to the SourceSafe server the go to the following folder %programfiles%\Microsoft ... [More]

Sadly today I found out you could. When closing Visual Source Safe 2005 my computer blue screened with the error: NO_MORE_IRP_STACK_LOCATIONS Apparently this was caused because I’d installed multiple anti-viruses to ensure protection against a nasty little worm and I’d forgot... [More]

Using StyleCop with ReSharper seemed to often crash Visual studio 2008… turns out to fix this problem and provide real-time visual StyleCop feedback all I had to do was install this amazing plug-in from codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/StyleCopForReSharper/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx... [More]

I keep getting this issue with Word 2007. Basically when I open a document, I can’t click anywhere within the document or select any of the document. I can click on the ribbon and status bar not on the document itself. The solution to fix this issue is documented at Microsoft Help and Suppor... [More]

Error: Duplicate Definition of IProduct possibly missing keyword partial. I had a weird error today (above) which indicated I had a duplicate definition for in interface called IProduct. Now this is often caused by having IProduct declared in another file but I hunted around and couldn't... [More]