Tuesday, December 18, 2007

"Control cannot be created because Visual Studio cannot find the control’s type in the control assembly"

I just got a new machine, an Acer laptop with enough bells and whistles to make a developer happy (Core 2 Duo, 2GHZ, 2 GB RAM). As usual I test drive it on a Web Application Project I was working on in VS 2005. The source files came from an old laptop of mine. The new laptop has been painstakingly updated with all the required patches, and Service Packs, both for the OS (SP2 for WinXP) and the VS 2005 (SP1). I even installed the .NET Framework in sequence (1.1 and its SP, 2.0 and its SP; no .NET Framework 3 though; I have no need for it yet).


What a line of code

I didn't know this line of code (in any language) will make sense but apparently it does: auto l = [](){}; Look at all those bracke...