Wednesday, April 9, 2008

App_Code folder in Web Application Projects

I've stumbled across an interesting glitch with Web Application Projects with (at least) Visual Studio 2008.
It seems that classes added to an /App_Code folder are not picked up by Intellisense. If you create the class outside the /App_Code folder, and then move it back in afterwards, Intellisense then picks it up. Go figure.
I don't know or care where the culprit lines of code exist that cause this situation, but a simple solution which I've seen other discussion forums recommend is: don't use an /App_Code folder in a web application project.
A secondary reason to the Intellisense issue would be to avoid confusion for developers, who may see an /App_Code folder and mistakingly think they are using a Web Site project model.

-Jase

Thursday, February 7, 2008

First Post!

Welcome to my blog about all things work related! It's been a while in the making. I've often wondered why other technology professionals blog about work, since they

  1. most likely won't make any money from it

  2. don't really know who is going to read it and

  3. spend loads of time making high quality informative posts that could be time better spent... I don't know... sleeping.


Do they do it for geek fame? The greater good? Maybe a bit of both. I'm going to start doing it for the benefit of my work mates and others subscribed to my google reader shared items.

I won't be posting regularly on any schedule to this blog, only when something comes up that I think is pertinent to share with my work mates.

I welcome any comments, feel free to voice disagreement (respectfully) about what I write, and hopefully, maybe something I write about will be useful to some nameless developer out there searching for answers.

-Jason