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December 2007 - Posts

Tuesday, December 25, 2007 8:24 PM

AL.exe Not Found - SOLUTION

In a previous post of mine about AL.exe not found while compiling a project with VS 2008 , I was not able to compile any Class library with VS 2008. I searched so many links online and couldn't find a single solution. On one of the blog posts I was searching
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Monday, December 24, 2007 9:46 AM

Merry Christmas every one

I would like to wish people all over the world and especially all Christians a Merry Christmas! Tonight is the Christmas night, hope this ceremony will bring peace and prosperity all over the world! Kind Regards, Bilal
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Sunday, December 23, 2007 1:05 AM

AL.exe not found in VS 2008

I created a new class library in VS 2008 targetting .NET 3.5 and I got the following exception from VS: Error 1 Task failed because "AL.exe" was not found , or the correct Microsoft Windows SDK is not installed . The task is looking for "AL.exe" in the
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:30 PM

ADO.NET Data Services

I would like to point you to a very important resource for a training on ADO.NET Data Services: http://lostintangent.com/adonet-data-services-training-series/ I am sure you will enjoy them, just like I did :) Regards
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:29 PM

VS 2008 with .NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax Extensions 1.0

Microsoft released recently templates for VS 2008 that you can use to create websites or applications targeting .NET 2.0 and using ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax Extensions 1.0. Brad Adams has a post about that, check it out: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/12/19/using-vs2008-to-target-net-framework-2-0-with-asp-net-ajax.aspx
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:12 PM

Microsoft Day @ Metropolitan

Yesterday we had a very long day at the Metropolitan hotel - Sin El Fil with Microsoft and the different partners in Lebanon. In the morning we had a section for MS Academic partners, where most of the universities in Lebanon sent representatives, in
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:05 PM

Adha Moubarak

I would like to wish people all over the world and specifically all Muslims Adha Moubarak! Today is the Adha Eid, hope this Eid will bring you all the peace and prosperity! Kind Regards, Bilal
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Sunday, December 16, 2007 9:44 PM

Spell checker for HTML, ASP.NET, JScript, VB, C#, CSS and C++ for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

Check this valuable add-in for your VS 2005/20008 http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2007/12/13/spell-checker-for-html-asp-net-jscript-vb-c-css-and-c-for-visual-studio-2005-and-2008.aspx really cool!!! Regards
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Sunday, December 16, 2007 5:49 AM

ASP.NET Podcasts

Always discovering nice stuff on the www.asp.net website! For those of you who haven't yet checked out the ASP.NET Podcasts, have a look at: http://www.asp.net/learn/podcasts/ Hope this helps, Regards
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 8:14 PM

It is all about timing!!

Last Saturday (December 8, 2007) I went to a governmental place to apply for a new Identity card because it was stolen from me in Spain, while I was attending the Techd Developers 2007. That governmental place is located in Baabda. A city that contains
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Sunday, December 09, 2007 9:00 PM

Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview Released

Microsoft just released the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview which contains the following features (quoted from http://asp.net/downloads/3.5-extensions/ ) ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC provides model-view-controller (MVC) support to the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime,
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Saturday, December 08, 2007 9:23 AM

Windows Client Videos

I noticed today a new resource that lists vidoes online on Visual Studio 2008, LINQ, and WPF. It is a very rich resource and you should check it: http://windowsclient.net/learn/ Hope it helps you as it helped me, Regards
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Friday, December 07, 2007 10:06 AM

Windows Installer Argument Passing

In a Windows Installer setup project I was developing, I had the need to run a script on the Install action of the Windows Installer. There could be several ways of doing so either using: vbs Windows Installer Class exe application I decided to go for
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