Have you tried changing the target CPU to x86 instead of “Any CPU” in the advanced compiler options? I know that this solves some problems with other OLEDB providers by forcing the use of the 32-bit version.
You can absolutely share the same master page. Your MVC master page must simply point to the WebForms masterpage via its MasterPageFile attribute. This applies your WebForms MasterPage styles to your MVC MasterPage. I am using this setup in production. The declaration on my MVC Master Page, pointing at the Web Forms Master Page: <%@ … Read more
The manpage for bash v3.2.48 says: […] The format for arithmetic expansion is: $((expression)) The old format $[expression] is deprecated and will be removed in upcoming versions of bash. So $[…] is old syntax that should not be used anymore.
It’s a copy-paste error, I suppose. From JLS 1 (which is really not that easy to find!), the section on local variable declarations states that such a declaration, in essence, is a type followed by an identifier. Note that there is no special reference made about *, but there is special reference made about [] … Read more
CVS documentation can be found here, but from this site it tells how to revert a single file: MAKING THE OLD VERSION THE CURRENT VERSION Save the version of “oldfile” to something else and check out the “current” version. Note: you must still to do update -A to get the current version, because even though … Read more
VB6 Installs just fine on Windows 7 (and Windows 8 / Windows 10) with a few caveats. Here is how to install it: Before proceeding with the installation process below, create a zero-byte file in C:\Windows called MSJAVA.DLL. The setup process will look for this file, and if it doesn’t find it, will force an … Read more
Windows services cannot have GUIs, so you will need to either get rid of the GUI or separate your application into two pieces – a service with no UI, and a “controller” application. If you have the source code, converting the non-GUI code into a service is easy – Visual Studio has a ‘Windows Service’ … Read more
Read Michael Feather’s book “Working effectively with Legacy Code” This is a GREAT book. If you don’t like that answer, then the best advice I can give would be: First, stop making new legacy code[1] [1]: Legacy code = code without unit tests and therefore an unknown Changing legacy code without an automated test suite … Read more
From the DDD book (Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software) by Eric Evans: The public interface of the ANTICORRUPTION LAYER usually appears as a set of SERVICES, although occasionally it can take the form of an ENTITY. and a bit later One way of organizing the design of the ANTICORRUPTION LAYER is … Read more
Having just started on pretty much the same thing a few months ago (on a ten-year-old commercial project, originally written with the “C++ is nothing but C with smart structs” philosophy), I would suggest using the same strategy you’d use to eat an elephant: take it one bite at a time. 🙂 As much as … Read more