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I was playing with Elmah. I had turned on customErrors in the web.config and set redirect to an custom error page.

I have local installation of TFS Express 2013 on my machine. All of a sudden it started giving this error “Service Unavailable 503” when I tried to open Visual Studio Team explorer.

I was comparing two asp.net site folders in WinMerge. The both were tied to source safe. The difference was showing .dll, .pdb and .scc files.

My colleague  was getting this error. When the code was placed in a test page, it worked but as soon as he added it to the relevant page, it stopped working.

I kept getting the error “XML Parsing Error: no element found ….” and was unable to trace it. To debug, I commented out most of the code on my page markup and just added “Hello World”. All was fine.

I started following a tutorial on a blog that required MongoDB [I am using 2.6 version]. It had instructions on downloading and configuring the service. But for some reason the command for starting the Windows service in that tutorial wasn’t working. So I went to the MongoDB docs and tried running this command as listed in the article:

Recently after deploying our ASP.NET 4.0 website to our production server we notice a weird behavior. As soon as we visit the site, it was displaying a blank page instead of our home login page.

I updated my jquery-UI dialog to version 1.10.3 but for some reason in IE the dialog’s close button started showing a dotted border. I knew it was due to the focus being set on the button because when I clicked anywhere on the page, it would disappear.