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Control Visibility, ViewState and Security and Performance
It is not unheard of to come across a solution where use of asp:Placeholder and asp:Panel (or some other container) Visibility is employed to show/hide certain details from the user especially when when implementing "simple" Authorization/Permission features ("simple" since there are likely more complicated and/or better ways to handle it) Of course you could always implement declarative authorization features in ASP.NET but I believe it would cause the user to be redirected to the page identified as the login url and might not be applicable if you want to stay on the same page.
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Hand Editing Web.Config or not
I've come across a number of issues in the past where the cause of the issue is that someone hand edited the web.config and resulted to a not well formed XML (missing tags, unclosed quotes et al).
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ASP.NET Development Server cannot be accessed using non-localhost URL
An interesting point about the ASP.NET Development Server (previously named "Cassini") was raised hours ago by Alvin, a coworker of mine.
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Issue with System.Transactions, SqlConnection and Timeout
Just recently, a post was made in Microsoft Forums regarding a bug/behavior of Committable Transactions and SqlConnection timeout. The same issue is evident for TransactionScope which was posted in 2006. Good thing there is a fix.