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mmm. How many of us thought about giving a progress to the client as a feed back mechanism for a long running SQL call. Read the following blog where Jens used RaiseError event differently from inside the stored procedure to give a feedback to client application on the progress.

 Unlike ASP.NET, unhandled web services exception can not be caught in global.asax(Application_Error event). Here is the workaround for that

I did not notice first that there two different types of web projects namely Web Site Project and Web Application Project. When I noticed, I wonder why MS came up with two different types of projects until I read this Introduction to Web Application Projects  article. As it explains, MS created this new Web Application Project type  for those developers, who are not comfortable with certain new features such as

How do you react if something is not simple when it is supposed to be? I tried to use Web Site Admin tool for my web site. The Provider tab was erroring out as

I bet all application development team had a debate on whether to use Stored Procedures or Dynamic SQL statements during their development. I read Bil Simser's blog on this and also Rob's blog and Frans Bouma's blog. What a lengthy feedback/comments and it defintely took a while for me to read everything but it is worth reading.

I never interviewed anybody for a technical position and currently as one of my team member left our team, I was assigned to hire a asp.net developer position for our team. It is quite a experience as you need to filter the resume based on our requirement. I interviewed three guys so far and still did not find a good fit. Sometimes, I used to think whether I am so picky. But my questions are simple and all I need is a direct answer. This process made me think like how I would act if I am in other side of the table! Today I got to interview one person who played lots of managerial role in various project and only know the basic concepts of asp.net but this position requires serious asp.net skill and so I was not comfortable in asking some of the asp.net specific questions to him (when I know that he is not going to answer)

What you will do when you do not get any error message but your web application simply hangs. That is what happened to me last week when I tried the following.