I find the vast majority of documentation on using MSBuild to compile Visual Studio solutions is way too complicated. MSBuild is very powerful, in that you can customize a lot of what is going on in the build process. However, sometimes you just want to do a simple compile of a visual studio solution in […]
Archive for November, 2006
fun with the Firebug Extension
09Nov06The other day I came across an article called Hacking Web 2.0 Applications with Firefox. This is a fantastic article for two reasons:
It emphasizes just how little you should be trusting any client-side validation for ensuring the security of your web application. In other words, don’t be trusting anything that is submitted to your […]
One fancy way to provide a bit of extra usability sugar on a form is to have formatting automatically applied to a textfield as the user types. I’ve been using a fantastic Mask Formatter javascript library created by PengoWorks for some time now on a number of production sites. This javascript can be configured different […]
Here’s a quick little trick with the command line: consider a situation where you have a folder of .sql scripts that are used to update or create a new database. One way you can easily run all of these scripts against the database is by using the osql command line tool and a ‘for’ […]
In my first post in this series I showed an msbuild script that would create a Team Foundation Server source control workspace, get latest to a particular folder, and build the Visual Studio solution in one click. However, because of the fact that TFS v.1 does not allow shared workspaces, the script wouldfail if another developer […]
