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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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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