Archive for May, 2009


Word Integration Broken for Pictures – Bummer…

Headline: I did something to break the nice picture upload capability… Any ideas? When Life Was Good Last week I was using Microsoft Word 2007 to publish my blogs just fine. I had the account set to use the “My Blog Provider”. And of course I had to change the Writing Settings to turn on [...]

EF and Code Analysis

Headline: I sure wish that Code Analysis would recognize Entity Framework (EF) files as auto generated. This morning I was up early and thought I’d get rid of some of the warning in my code from Code Analysis… There is a tab in the project properties that allows you to “Suppress results from generated code”. [...]

GDR R2 Install

Headline: The install of GDR R2 did not fix any of the usability concerns I’m having. These are just my installation notes for GDR R2 (See the previous post for more about GDR)… At the outset, the install was confusing. The notes on the website said this: Install Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database [...]

GDR R2 Available

Headline: I will install GDR R2 and see if that is better than the current GDR. GDR? R2? GDR stands for General Development Release and is the release of the database tools in Visual Studio. It started out life as “Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals”, usually referred to as DBPro for short. [...]

My Wine Inventory in MVC

This blog post chronicles the development of a new version of my web site to manage my wine inventory. For years I’ve actually managed my wine inventory on the web and allowed others to see that I had… Not the same details I get, but some information. I’d like to revamp the Zachry’s Heritage site [...]