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Custom Error Pages in ASP.NET
First, turn on custom error reporting in the web.config and name the file you will use as your default handler:
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Don Box on Evolution
Don Box:Old stuff gets older.New stuff replaces it.Even XML will eventually be overtaken by something else.When this stops happening, I'm changing professions.Well sometimes things just work. Then, unless "fashion" matters, they don't change. Either the thing reaches a level of simplicity that can't be improved upon (seen any new designs for coat hangers lately?) or they become so entrenched that only a major industry shift will have any effect on their dominance.An example of the latter would be TCP/IP. It just works. We got it right and now the level of focus is on secondary things -- appliances to interpret and route it, encryption, and so on. Even as addressing migrates to IPv6, the mechanics don't change all that much, just the size of the address space. It amounts to a new feature, conceptually closer to making int32 available in addition to int16, not so much like the jump from IPX/SPX to TCP/IP, or from CISC to RISC where designers need to change their language entirely.XML is one of those things that is is general enough it probably won't change all that much, though our tools for manipulating and expressing it will. It is inherently flexible and already proven useful whatever the culture, character set, industry, or methodology it is applied to. It just works.The boundary of focus was once the PC, then the network, then the WAN, then the Internet. Next it's about connecting the Internet to mobile devices and everyday objects.At the same time, business has moved from connecting PCs to connecting the Enterprise to connecting companies with XML and next will be about communication among industries.When the boundaries stop moving, then I'll change professions. Don, in the meantime, save a seat by the pool.Further reading: -
Chris Brumme, Stephen Hawking, and Mario Andretti
Through all this buzz on Chris Brumme's new blog, I haven't seen much mention on Brad Abrams' relatively-new blog at the same site. It's also damn good, and also shares FAQs culled from internal MS feeds. Check it out.
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Blog Categories
Scott's recent rant on signal-to-noise in the dotnetweblog community should get people thinking about self-control. Unfortunately, the feedback he received puts the burden on his end (the distribution layer) to create topical aggregate feeds and global categories. That should not be where the responsibility ends.
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Generating Amazon Links: Now Like Butter
With the updated Amazon Link Generator you can generate links to Amazon.com complete with your personal AssociateID easier than ever. Anyone who's used it knows that Amazon's own tool for the purpose is kinda klunky, and it's a hassle hacking together your own URLs.
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Generating Amazon Links
When writing blogs it is handy to include links to related books at Amazon.com. It points the reader to good resources, and if you have an AssociateID you can even make a few bucks when your click-throughs result in sales at Amazon.
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Open Source vs. Commercial
Scott's been tracking the open source vs. commercial debate and I've been meaning to weigh in.