web installer hung

i ran reset from command line

installing mvc 4

on vs 2012 kept on failing because of a lack of a patch on vs 2010 (huh?)
i installed mvc 3 first and all was good

Ease of Use - my foot

only date in javascript

var curdate = new Date();
        curdate.setHours(0,0,0,0);

when to use x86 on a VS build

I needed that for creating an exe that had to work on 64 bit bit still had references to 32 bit

How to copy a distribution list for an outlook meeting invite

the easiest way I found was to reply to the earlier meeting to get the list of names and copy

adding existing files to vs project

dont add the designer just the plain cs

report viewer in 2013 express

pure hell

through this i ran this

'Unexpected Token ILLEGAL' Error

I had this once because word sometimes adds the bizarre double quotes

Some Hashing functions

     public static string SHA1Hash(string to_be_hash)

        {

        SHA1CryptoServiceProvider sha1 = new SHA1CryptoServiceProvider();

        byte[] hash = sha1.ComputeHash(GetBytes(to_be_hash));

        string delimitedHexHash = BitConverter.ToString(hash);

        string hexHash = delimitedHexHash.Replace("-", "");

        return hexHash;

        }

        public static string HMACRIPEMD160Hash(string to_be_hash)

         {

             Guid g = new Guid("AD56BC66-3C2F-4B69-B9C9-1E0305D95E99");

             byte[] temp = null;

             using (HMACRIPEMD160 hmac = new HMACRIPEMD160(g.ToByteArray()))

             {

                 temp = hmac.ComputeHash(GetBytes(to_be_hash));

             }

             //return Convert.ToBase64String(temp);

             return ByteArrayToString(temp);

           }

Readonly on reference types

    public class testReadonly

    {

        public  readonly List<string> l = new List<string>();  

    }

    

     testReadonly tr = new testReadonly();

            tr.l.Add("fdgdgf"); 

this is ok because of this

KnownTypes

why they are needed

The type or namespace name 'Blah' does not exist in the namespace 'heh.heh' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

I was getting this in a team city build because the dll was directly referenced instead of the project being referenced.

This has great consequences with release builds
As I understand it,only with a project reference is the bin created

OperationFormatter encountered an invalid Message body. Expected to find node type 'Element' with name

this happened with an unhandled error that didn't have wcf fault shielding

REST Clients

I had a situation where I needed to pass security in  a HTTP header - Postman worked while SOAPUI didn't

Compound Tertiary Operators

if you don't surround with parenthesis - you can have some funky errors