Ryan McDonnell - Pursuing Web Application Zen

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“The path is already mapped to workspace…”

Friday, December 7th, 2007

I just recently setup a new Team Foundation Server installation on a newer more powerful server. The older server was quickly taken offline. I stripped the source control bindings from old projects and proceeded to bind them to the new server. In doing so, I was given the following error:

The path <path> is already mapped to workspace <workspace>.
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Always show the PagerTemplate in GridView control

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

The PagerTemplate can be a handy place to put some frequently used controls or data in your GridView. I like to use the area to include the number and range of records displayed, some paging details and a DropDownList to let the user view more records at a time. Read more »

FileSystemWatcher fires multiple times for the same event

Tuesday, September 7th, 2004

The FileSystemWatcher component recently gave me some headaches when firing events in response to changes to files it was watching.  In one case, when modifying a file, the FileSystemWatcher was firing four times for the same event… or so it seemed. Read more »

Getting a file’s short name (8.3 format) in .NET

Friday, July 16th, 2004

Using short file names is not something that should be needed anymore, probably violates most “best practices“ and will likely be deprecated in the future. I assume this is why Microsoft did not provide an easy method for finding a file’s short name with the .NET Framework. Unfortunately, while writing an interface to an older, poorly written application, I needed to supply the short name for some files. Read more »

Reading data from an Excel spreadsheet with unknown sheet names

Friday, June 25th, 2004

Reading data from an Excel spreadsheet is pretty easy, given you know the name of the sheet in the file you are reading data from. What if you don’t know the name of the sheet? Read more »

About Ryan McDonnell

I am a web application developer living in southern California. Commonly called a “jack of all trades” by collegues, I constantly strive to broaden my knowledge into other fields.
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