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The Case of the missing ASP.NET tab in IIS
Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:33 PM

We recently had a problem on our development build server that had us puzzled. The ASP.NET tab disappeared and our CruiseControl.NET server quit working. We had seen the problem with CruiseControl.NET before - a serialization error on DateTime - and we knew it was related to running the dashboard in the wrong version of ASP.NET. So the two issues seemed to be... Read More...

by thycotic | with no comments

Filed under: .NET, General Software Development, Software Development, ASP.NET

Want a new email signature? (ShorterSigs)
Sunday, February 18, 2007 10:49 AM

ShorterSigs is a new service from Thycotic Software which solves the problem of communicating relevant contact information (and even your photo!) without cluttering up your email messages. This is just what every techie needs whether posting to forums, newsgroups or just a friendly chat among your peers. Here is my public ShorterSig: http://shortersigs.com/50454T3F7R3N... Read More...

by thycotic | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, General Software Development, Software Development, TDD, ASP.NET, Test Driven Development

Simple pluggable forum software
Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:06 PM

We had a requirement to provide a support forum in our online store for Secret Server which led to the classic "Buy vs. Build" decision. Build : The requirements were very simple and it could be developed in-house but who wants to write simple forum code when it has been done many times before?! Buy : Most of available options were too sophisticated for our requirements... Read More...

by thycotic | with no comments

Filed under: .NET, ISV, Software Development, ASP.NET

Secret Server now supports ASP.NET 2.0!
Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:59 PM

Our product, Secret Server , now supports ASP.NET 2.0. Testing on ASP.NET 2.0 started with a horrible crash on the secret view page resulting in the typical "but it worked fine in 1.1?!". Here is the exception stack trace, we were seeing: Message: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute. Exception: System.InvalidOperationException StackTrace... Read More...

by thycotic | with no comments

Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET

Automatic reporting of client-side script exceptions
Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:26 PM

Error reporting is enormously powerful. Knowing when your customers are seeing errors is the first step to improving the quality of your application. In my previous post , I mentioned capturing client-side script exceptions while discussing a dreaded hot fix that had to be made. You may have been wondering exactly what I was talking about and if it might be useful... Read More...

by thycotic | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET

Working around global.asax at runtime
Tuesday, December 06, 2005 1:15 AM

While this doesn't classify as great development practice, sometimes a well tested hotfix to a production site is just the right thing to solve a client's problem quickly. In our case, the problem was too many emails being sent due to ClientScriptExceptions (our own custom Exception that is thrown when a Javascript onerror event fires in the browser ... yes,... Read More...

by thycotic | with no comments

Filed under: .NET, Software Development, ASP.NET

Printable or ReadOnly pages in ASP.NET (code snippet)
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:36 PM

You have an ASP.NET page that is full of great controls, functionality, etc. but now you need to print it or render a "readonly" view of the page. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a little ReadOnly property that you could flip to true on the page and that was it? Well ... there isn't. However with a little recursive code, you can achieve the same effect. This... Read More...

by thycotic | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET