Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog

Today I found something weird. I tried to add some new views to my ASP.NET MVC solution but there were no ASP.NET MVC items in new items dialog. All the other ASP.NET MVC projects had no problem like this. Solution is simple.

Visual Studio 2010 has support for multiple web.config files. It is one feature of new web application packaging and deployment system. We can create now separate web.config files for each configuration we have for application.

I have Windows 7 beta running on my machine. I need to change some settings of IIS WAMREG admin service. Although I am logged in as administrator and I started dcomcnfg under administrative permissions I am not able to modify security settings. What may be the problem?

I struggled with a weird problem today. I have pages library where users can insert pages through custom forms (it is public facing site, so I really don’t want to expose system pages to everybody). When new page is inserted to library then also alert will be created so user who owns the page gets e-mail when administrator approves or declines the page. Some users were not able to receive e-mails. There were no errors, no warnings – everything seemed to work normally.

Guys from ORCS Web are offering free ASP.NET 4.0 beta hosting until the end of October. Hosting plan is called “VS2010 and Web Deployment Tool Beta Program”. If you are interested in it then please feel free to sign up.

I’m trying out Azure Training Kit examples to study cloud stuff that should hit the streets (or sky) later this year. I faced some trouble when trying to connect with .Net Service Bus using settings mentioned in examples (netTcpRelayBinding and CardSpace). I tried hard but CardSpace authentication failed every time. My final solution was simple: I moved to username and password authentication scheme.

Client-side ID-s of ASP.NET controls have been problem for a long time. They are hard to predict and guess. Fool-proof method that uses JavaScript block that defines client-side ID-s as variable values is not very elegant. Today’s web applications use client-size scripting heavily and now ASP.NET 4.0 provides us with elegant features to handle client-size ID-s of controls to make client-side scripting easier for us. Let’s see quick example.

I have class library that contains some XML-files as embedded resources. Reading these files at runtime is very easy. It takes only couple of lines of code.