Contents tagged with ASP.NET
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The Case of the missing ASP.NET tab in IIS
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 related.
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Want a new email signature? (ShorterSigs)
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.
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Ryan Olshan (ASP.NET MVP) joins the Thycotic team
Ryan Olshan comes to us from California where his main line of work was focused on the non-profit sector. From redesigning the web presence of Pacific Wildlife Project to creating an application for tracking wayward pigeons for the 911 Pigeon Alert group, Ryan has extended his love for animals to a technological aspect. In 2006, he was awarded the Microsoft MVP award in the area of ASP.NET for his ongoing commitment to the ASP.NET community. You can catch him online on many Yahoo! Groups and the ASP.NET Forums as well as StrongTypes.com and blogs.strongcoders.com.
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Simple pluggable forum software
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.
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Secret Server now supports ASP.NET 2.0!
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?!".
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Automatic reporting of client-side script exceptions
Error reporting is enormously powerful. Knowing when your customers are seeing errors is the first step to improving the quality of your application.
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Working around global.asax at runtime
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, we do some tricky stuff with an Image in Javascript to get the message back to the server). Anyway, the exception is caught in global.asax.cs in the Application_Error method.
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Printable or ReadOnly pages in ASP.NET (code snippet)
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.