Tom Christian's Blog : Code

Improving Time-Critical Code written in C

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:00:33 GMT

Writing web pages is very similar to writing any other type of code. You have to understand how it is going to be used and where you need to really make things run as quickly as possible. There are a number of tips on this blog already that deal...(read more)

Debugging .NET Framework Source Code

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:45:10 GMT

I am not sure how many people are familiar with the .NET Reference Source project, but if you do a lot of debugging of .NET code, chances are that you have had a situation where you wanted to be able to step into the .NET Source from within Visual Studio...(read more)

Visual Studio Designer not Respecting Assembly Binding Redirection

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:16:33 GMT

So we recently came across an issue where Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 Designers were not respecting assembly binding redirection. Scenario We have a file which is now version 2 and stored in the GAC . So the assembly version is 2.0.0.0. We...(read more)

Making an Asynchronous Call using the Impersonation Identity

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:20:09 GMT

If you try to make an asynchronous call, you will notice that the thread that executes the call doesn't run under the same account as the thread that called it, assuming you are using impersonation. There are a number of ways to change this if you would...(read more)