Microsoft Visual Studio Wish List
Being that I use Microsoft Visual Studio all day, every day at work there are a few things that I constantly find myself wishing were there. So I thought I’d jot them down in this little wish list.
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Software
How To Fix The LinkShare RSS Deal Feed WordPress Plugin
I haven’t tried using the coupon or widget functionality, so this only applies to the RSS functionality via the get_linkshareRSS() function.
After installing the plugin and setting it up, I noticed 2 problems. The first, the configuration panel didn’t seem to save all of my settings. The second, the get_linkshareRSS() function didn’t display anything but the Headline.
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Software Tip: How To Export A Table To XML File In SQL Server Management Studio
There doesn’t seem to be a User Interface for exporting a table to an XML file in SQL Server Management Studio. It seems that Microsoft completely overlooked the case when you just need to do a one time export. [Read more →]
Software Tip: Linked Item Fails to Preview in Sitecore
Recently I encountered a situation where a linked item would only show in preview mode when the preview date / time was prior to 12/15/09 12:00pm. There were no publishing restrictions on my linked item. So I was very perplexed. After a few fruitless days of exchanging posts on the support site my issue was escalated to the next level and I was able to talk to a support rep. After a few minutes of showing him what was going on, he figured out that it must be a publishing restriction on an item in the path of the linked item. So we walked back up the item path in the content tree checking publishing restrictions for each node as we went along. Finally we got to the Home node and low and behold someone had set it to expire on 12/15/09 12:00pm. After we removed that expiration, previewing worked as expected.
HTH!
Software Tip: Add Machine Name to Log4Net Filename
If you have multiple servers logging to the same folder, you can create unique file names by adding the server name to the file that it logs to by changing your log4netConfig.xml file to something like:
<file type=”log4net.Util.PatternString” value=”logs/MultiServerApp.%property{log4net:HostName}.log” />
