MBSA is a great tool, today I’m configuring a new production server, after I configure everything I simply run it and immediately it found some issues
What I love of MBSA is that he immediately tells you how to solve the specific problem, in this situation I’ve installed a redistributable component, and mbsa tells me [...]
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One of the most important stuff in a project build, is the ability to mark the assemblies with unique numbers that permits us to reproduce the build. Tfs does not have a standard way of doing this, but with a couple of MsBuild actions it is really simple to overcome this limitation. This is a [...]
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Teamfuze (http://www.teamfuze.net/index.jspa) is gone beta, finally Oracle developers with Visual Studio 2010 Database Edition beta will experience the same feeling of Sql Server developers, when moving from old-style database development to VS Database Edition. You can sync database, put every object in source control system, generate test data, automate database sync during team build and [...]
In my experience, one of the most feared problem during the “going in production” phase of an asp.net site or a complex project is configurations. Usually everything works perfectly on developer machines, but when you move the project in production machines all sort of problems appear.
For Asp.Net, one day one of my colleagues called me [...]
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I must create a duplicate of a database in another server, I need to duplicate only the structure of actual production database to use with a test web application to check how the webapp works with an empty database. I simply fired a command prompt, went to output directory of my database project, and typed
vsdbcmd [...]
