Contents tagged with .NET 4.0
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Assemblies Go Missing in MVC 2 Project!
Sometimes, my MVC 2 project fails during development because an assembly has disappeared from the /bin folder.
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Visual Studio 2012 Downloads Start August 15th
I see from Jason Zander’s blog that MSDN subscribers can download Visual Studio 2012 starting August 15th.
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Fix: IIS and This page contains both secure and nonsecure items
After moving a production site to use HTTPS exclusively (using the excellent IIS URL rewrite module), Internet Explorer 9 drove me nuts with the “Security Information” warning:
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Fix: 'Unable to load one or more of the requested types' Errors
A long time ago, I reported on an intermittent ‘Could not load file or assembly‘ bug where ASP.NET 4 was encountering a bizarre error on start-up in System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes(RuntimeModule module). I neglected to post a follow-up here.
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We Need a Capped Plan for MSDN Azure Benefits
Like many developers, I’d like to play more with Windows Azure. Microsoft recently improved the MSDN Azure benefits – extending them to MSDN Professional subscribers.
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Fix: ASP.NET 4 Page on IIS 7 Misbehaves When Browser URL Doesn’t Include Default Page
After deploying an ASP.NET 4 application to the production server, data submitted in a form on the default page went nowhere. I discovered that the page worked normally if I included the name of the default document as in http://mydomain.com/default.aspx. When I navigated to the site as http://mydomain.com the postback misbehaved to the extent that there was no SQL connection – as if it didn’t even try.
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Extracting the Date from a DateTime in Entity Framework 4 and LINQ
In my current ASP.NET 4 project, I’m displaying dates in a GridDateTimeColumn of Telerik’s ASP.NET Radgrid control. I don’t care about the time stuff, so my DataFormatString shows only the date bits:
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Fix: CSS Problems in IE 8 With Over 31 StyleSheets
In my latest Web application, I went crazy trying to find out why a popup/overlay window style was acting up in IE 8 but was fine in the latest version of FireFox. After too many hours of frustration and dead ends, I took the issue to my friends at Telerik Support (the site I’m developing uses their excellent RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite).
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Entity Framework Code-First to Provide Replacement for ASP.NET Profile Provider
A while back, I coordinated a project to add support for the SQL Table Profile Provider in ASP.NET 4 Web Applications. We urged Microsoft to improve ASP.NET’s built-in Profile support so our workaround wouldn’t be necessary. Instead, Microsoft plans to provide a replacement for ASP.NET Profile in a forthcoming release.
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Help A Hacker: Give ‘Em The Windows Source Code
The announcement of another Windows megapatch reminded me of a WikiLeaks story about Microsoft Windows that hasn’t attracted much attention.