Dave Bost

September 2004 - Posts

Everything isn't as it seems

Now this is funny...

When Oprah Winfrey gave away 276 cars last week to the audience of her show, images of people laughing, jumping, crying -- some hysterically -- filled the airwaves and the give-away became stuff of legend...But now some of those eager prize-winners have a choice: Fork over $7,000 or give up the car.

http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/22/news/newsmakers/oprah_car_tax/index.htm?cnn=yes

An issue with Visual Studio Debugging Resolved

In a shameless attempt to help promote traffic to my new permanent blog site (http://www.davebost.com), I will offer up teasers to my posts on my weblogs.asp.net site with a link to the actual post.

On to the post...

I was helping one of the developers on our team with an interesting little debugging issue in Visual Studio .NET today.  I thought I share it with my readers (all 3 of you). 

One of our developers came up to me today and said he was having an issue with a breakpoint not hitting.  This particular situation involved a main web project alongside a class library project under one solution.  He was setting a breakpoint in the class project and sure enough it wasn't firing.  These are always fun ones to figure out, so I go through my standard questions for debugging web applications:

1.)  Are you compiling in Debug or Release mode?

2.)  Does the web config have the debug attribute set to true in the <compilation> configuration setting under <system.web>?

3.)  Do you have the appropriate permissions?  Are you an Administrator?  If not, are you a member of the VS Developers and Debugger Users groups?

In this particular case, he answered Yes to all 3. <more>

 

Project Code Names

A nice little read on project code names.  Who would've thought there's much more to it than coming up with a catchy name to put on a t-shirt.

Rory's ode to Chris Sells

Ok… so Rory has only been on the job for a couple of weeks now and he’s already completely lost his mind during his stay at some of the roads finest 2 ½ star hotels.  I can’t wait to see what he comes up with during his travels. 

Give 6, Get 6

[Update: the 2nd round of invites are all gone.]

I recently gave away my 6 Gmail invites to some of the fine folks in the blogosphere.  Gmail seems to be awarding my generosity by allowing me to invite 6 more.  If you haven’t already gotten your hands on one of these invites (and who hasn’t) leave a comment and I’ll be sure to pass one your way.  As is the standard, first come - first serve.

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