I've taken to learning T4 templates using tutorials from Oleg Sych, and I hit a wall right away, and so I decided that since the solution, while simple took a great deal of searching, I thought I'd toss together how I resolved it, in case it can help someone else. Compiling transformation: The type 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Manage... is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Manage... Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, ......
I had been kicking around the idea of writing an article discussing the various approaches in MVC to populating the ubiqutous dropdown list box, when at lucnch today, I read that the prolific K. Scott Allen had beat me to it. Rather than rehash what he wrote, I'm not free to skip the part discussing the basics of adding a SelectList to a ViewModel and discuss the various other approaches. What's the ViewModel? That is a class representing a DTO of your entity that is more readily consumed by a view. ......
I wanted to pull together all of my notes on compression I've gathered from various sources and bring them together here, in the hope that it would help someone else. All of this information is from reliable sources, such as the online MSDN but these sources aren't always easily found in a pinch. Using HTTP Compression for Faster Downloads (IIS 6.0) If your Web sites use large amounts of bandwidth or if you want to use bandwidth more effectively, consider enabling HTTP compression, which provides ......