.net-4.0

Differences between Microsoft .NET 4.0 full Framework and Client Profile

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The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 full installer (32- and 64-bit) is 48.1 MB and the Client Profile installer is 41.0 MB. The extracted installation files are 237 MB and 194 MB respectively, and once installed, they are 537 MB and 427 MB. This is a difference of 110 MB. What difference is there between the two packages? When is it preferable to … Read more

How to easily initialize a list of Tuples?

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I love tuples. They allow you to quickly group relevant information together without having to write a struct or class for it. This is very useful while refactoring very localized code. Initializing a list of them however seems a bit redundant. var tupleList = new List<Tuple<int, string>> { Tuple.Create( 1, “cow” ), Tuple.Create( 5, “chickens” … Read more

An ASP.NET setting has been detected that does not apply in Integrated managed pipeline mode

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I Installed DotNetOpenAuth SDK-3.4.5.10201.vsix and I can’t get it working. It works locally (when I run as localhost) but when i try to publish it ain’t working. The IIS error message I get is Error Summary HTTP Error 500.22 – Internal Server Error An ASP.NET setting has been detected that does not apply in Integrated … Read more

Microsoft.WebApplication.targets was not found, on the build server. What’s your solution?

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Trying to build my project on the build server gives me the following error: Microsoft (R) Build Engine Version 4.0.30319.1 error MSB4019: The imported project “C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\TeamData\Microsoft.Data.Schema.SqlTasks.targets” was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk. error MSB4019: The imported project “C:\Program Files … Read more

What ‘additional configuration’ is necessary to reference a .NET 2.0 mixed mode assembly in a .NET 4.0 project?

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I have a project in which I’d like to use some of the .NET 4.0 features but a core requirement is that I can use the System.Data.SQLite framework which is compiled against 2.X. I see mention of this being possible such as the accepted answer here but I don’t see how to actually achieve this. … Read more

App.Config Transformation for projects which are not Web Projects in Visual Studio?

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For Visual Studio 2010 Web based application we have Config Transformation features by which we can maintain multiple configuration files for different environments. But the same feature is not available for App.Config files for Windows Services/WinForms or Console Application. There is a workaround available as suggested here: Applying XDT magic to App.Config. However it is … Read more