ASP.NET Team Blogs

How do I get a hotfix for .net or Visual Studio?

If broken it is, fix it you should — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:26:11 GMT

I very frequently get emails like the one I got this morning: "Tess, It sounds like the hotfix for kb946644 may resolve a problem we've been having for some time in .Net 2.0. How, exactly, can we get this hotfix? Can you provide it?" This particular hotfix was one i blogged about here, regarding a deadlock with the GC when using XmlSchemaSet.Add... but the answer will be the same for any hotfix. Many new hotfixes in the Visual Studio or .net framework area are available for public download by the Visual Studio and .NET Framework Public Availability Program. If the particular hotfix you are looking for (like this one) is not available there, you need to open a support case and the reason for this is that we want to keep track who...(read more)

Free Mind Mapping Application

JoeOn.net - Joe Stagner [Syndicated] — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:55:24 GMT

Mindmapping tools can be great for flushing out design ideas. Here is a cool FREE Mind Mapping tool built with .NET 3.0 http://cayra.net/ Read More......(read more)

ANSWER: POP QUIZ: Troubleshoot a Hang

ASP.NET Debugging — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:26:44 GMT

We got some really good answers to this quiz. I am going to give my answer but it isn’t the only possible way to resolve this. The easiest way is to use my previous post found at ASP.NET Tips- How to use DebugDiag to track down where a performance...(read more)

POP QUIZ: How to Troubleshoot a Hang

ASP.NET Debugging — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:31:14 GMT

For this quiz. Let’s say that you run a web server and your customers complain that the site is running slow. What do you do to troubleshoot it? As a follow-up, if you figure out that one page is the problem, what do you do to look into what...(read more)

System.Net.Mail - Sending Email with .NET

JoeOn.net - Joe Stagner [Syndicated] — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:49:00 GMT

Add this awesome FAQ by Dave Wanta to your bookmarks. All about Sending email in .NET 2.0 If you're still a .NET 1.x user, see here http://www.systemwebmail.com/ Read More......(read more)

ntdll!kifastSystemcallret, SharedUserData!SystemCallStub and search engines...

If broken it is, fix it you should — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:31:27 GMT

If I were to pick out ten keywords for my blog I would pick, in no particular order, ASP.net, windbg, sos, debugging, .net exceptions, memory leaks, performance issues, OutOfMemory exceptions, garbage collection, troubleshooting. Those are the things that I think, but I might be wrong, that people who visit my blog are most interested in. As with most other technical blogs (I think), about half of the traffic to my blog comes from people searching on various search engines, but what really surprised me was what the top search terms are that bring people here, since obviously my keywords are way off:) 1. kifastsystemcallret 2. .net exception types 3. ntdll!kifastsystemcallret 4. 0x800703e9 5. 0xe0434f4d 6. Invalid viewstate 7. tess blog 8. tess...(read more)

AutoComplete for Silverlight TextBoxes

Nikhil Kothari's Weblog — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:19:38 GMT

An implementation of AutoComplete functionality that you can add to your TextBoxes in XAML... ala Google Suggest and the ASP.NET AutoComplete control extender (built on top of the behavior framework). Read More......(read more)

Silverlight Resources

Your Websites, Our Passion! — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:16:40 GMT

Looking for an good list of Silverlight Resources? I have created a list of Silverlight Blogs, Tutorials and more that you can find here: http://silverlight.net/blogs/msnow/archive/2008/05/05/silverlight-resources.aspx I will be keeping this list up-to-date so send me any links you feel are missing! Thank you. Mike Snow SDET Lead Visual Studio Web Tools Read More......(read more)

DotNetRocks Part Deux

you've been HAACKED — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:09:54 GMT

I did another interview with those wild and crazy guys, Carl and Richard . My first time (show 261) being on .NET Rocks was back in August of 2007 when I talked about Subtext, Open Source, and my blog. This time (show 339), the interview focused on my experiences with working at Microsoft and the work I do on the ASP.NET MVC project. Notice that my profile pic hasn’t changed at all. I should do something about that. I haven’t listened to it yet as I hate hearing myself talk. Even worse is seeing myself on video . In any case, if you are interested, take a listen to the latest .NET Rocks show . Technorati Tags: dotnetrocks Read More......(read more)

ComputerWorld: Web 2.0 developers rank MSN/Live higher than Google, Yahoo and Facebook

JoeOn.net - Joe Stagner [Syndicated] — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:30:50 GMT

May 5, 2008 (Computerworld) Web 2.0 software developers ranked Microsoft 's MSN/Live Windows developer program higher than competing programs offered by Internet leaders Google , Yahoo , Amazon, eBay , Facebook and PayPal, according to results of an Evans Data Corp. report released today . [ Read more HERE. ] Read More......(read more)

LitwareHR on SSDS available for download

Eugenio Pace - Software as a Service Architecture Guidance : Web Client — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:49:53 GMT

The latest version of LitwareHR is now available for download here . From our CodePlex site: This new enhanced version of LitwareHR includes the following new features: Upgraded codebase for SQL Server Data Services support New "DataModel" New infrastructure for data access to SSDS (including caching, cross-container search, offline development, etc.) New UX Better graphics and layout Helper links for streamlining demos (demo "auto-complete") Various bug fixes New "Dependency Checker" tool to verify and install pre-requisites New configuration tool to setup LitwareHR (SSDS config, etc) The MSI contains all the tools, source code and some binary dependencies (e.g. EntLib) to build LitwareHR. You will need Visual...(read more)

ASP.NET Tips: What to gather to troubleshoot – part 3 – Crash

ASP.NET Debugging — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:39:51 GMT

Defining an IIS Crash A Crash in IIS occurs when an IIS process (INETINFO.EXE, DLLHOST.EXE, W3WP.EXE) terminates unexpectedly. A Crash typically happens when there is an Unhandled Exception caused by an Access Violation, Stack Overflow, etc. In these...(read more)

Get the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

JoeOn.net - Joe Stagner [Syndicated] — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:41:16 GMT

The .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit covers the technologies in the .NET 3.5 SP1 release and the out of band releases that are a part of the same wave, namely ASP.NET MVC and the ASP.NET Silverlight controls. Currently, the training kit contains six hands-on labs, made up of the following technologies: 1) ADO.NET Data Services 2) ADO.NET Entity Framework 3) ASP.NET AJAX History 4) ASP.NET Dynamic Data 5) ASP.NET MVC 6) ASP.NET Silverlight controls · You can download the training kit at http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8719735 Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET Crash: StackOverflowException with Server.Transfer

If broken it is, fix it you should — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:54:03 GMT

I have written a few posts about stackoverflow exceptions, here, here , here and here . The one I am going to talk about today is one of those unfortunate cases where you are trying to do the right thing and still shoot yourself in the foot. Problem description: Randomly when browsing the application we get the "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" page, and the following event is found in the system eventlog Event Type: Warning Event Source: W3SVC Event Category: None Event ID: 1009 Date: 2008-05-06 Time: 10:04:26 User: N/A Computer: MYMACHINE Description: A process serving application pool 'DefaultAppPool' terminated unexpectedly. The process id was '4436'. The process exit code was '0x800703e9' Read...(read more)

Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Book (only $16 on Amazon for a short time)

ScottGu's Blog — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:38:26 GMT

One of the things I like to track are book sales on Amazon.com, which provides a useful data point to monitor what developers are interested in on any given day. I use the www.TitleZ.com site (which is built using ASP.NET) to track specific titles I want to watch - it then generates a report showing real-time Amazon sales ranking data, as well as 7 day, 30 day and 90 day sales ranking averages. This morning I pulled up my report and saw the usual books near the top of my list, and was about to navigate away when I noticed the eye-popping amazon ranking of the top book -" Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB " by Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman and Devin Rader. Its Amazon sales rank was a stunning #95 (of all books on Amazon...(read more)