We just recently launched the new version of LearnVisualStudio.NET. The implementation uses the RewritePath method to serve up dynamic pages based on templates. All of our pre deployment testing showed that this was all working without a hitch. Once we deployed to production however it became clear which...

Yesterday, my iPod Nano began to auto reset over and over. So, I checked the Apple website for help. The only fix I found were the instructions on how to do a "Hard Reset" . I already knew how to do this from a previous incident on the first day I owned my iPod Nano . Needless to say, the " Hard Reset...

I just saw that Mark Russinovich and David Solomon of SysInternals fame are going to release a set of DVD videos on their Windows debugging & troubleshooting training. Having sat-in on their PDC sessions and read their articles, this looks like a awesome product for any serious developer/debugger...

While doing some asp.net dev today I needed to hack my hosts file so I could mimic a live website. However after modifying my hosts file it didnt seem to affect things. I figured there was some kind of DNS caching going on, which prompted me to remember this handy Windows command-line tool: ipconfig...

I was discussing debugging of Javascript on one of the ASP.NET Ajax forums recently and thought I'd share how I go about it, as you'd be surprised how many people are unaware of this capability. Note: This only discusses getting the debugging process going, not other debugging techniques such as using...

Scott gave a whirlwind presentation to a standing room only crowd at the North Dallas Dot Net User Group tonight. A wide range of topics were covered from IDE tips and tricks to ASP.NET tips to MS AJAX to LINQ and DLINQ (I still like to call it DLINQ rather than LINQ to SQL). I'm still not sure how all...

A number of people have been reporting problems when trying to debug their ASP.NET applications on Windows Vista with Visual Studio 2005 F5 debugging support. There are a handful of posts about trying to get this to work in various ways ... most of which are missing key information needed to *really...

I ran into an issue earlier today where I had a web control inside of an UpdatePanel that was causing some errors. So, I began looking for ways to circumvent removing the UpdatePanel and readding it at a later time. I posted a message out on the ASPAdvice.com lists and received 2 great responses. One...

Scott Guthrie posted a fix on his blog yesterday regarding random ASP.NET compilation issues. I've received these issues before when working on projects especially the following type of issue: Could not load file or assembly 'App_Web_e9dbmaj, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'...

In a previous post titled Where did my IIS7 server go? Troubleshooting "service unavailable" errors , I covered the basic steps for dealing with 503 Service Unavailable errors on IIS7. This post dives deeper into debugging the IIS worker process to get to the bottom of particularly difficult crashes...