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Visual Studio Tip

If you are normal, you must be loving Intellisense in source editor in visual studio. You press ‘.’, and you get help. It is good, with one bad side effect. When intellisense window is opened, you cannot see source code beneath it. So, sometimes when you need to see that part of source code, you [...]

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Posted 03 April 2009 † Chetan § .Net ‡ Comments (0) °

Instance Failure

If you are successful in getting visual studio barking at you with error message “instance failure”, there is a very good chance that you have used \\ in your connection string in configuration file. Replace all \\ with \ and you should be okay. I learnt it hard way!

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Posted 03 April 2009 † Chetan § .Net ‡ Comments (0) °