Sep 30, 2009
We've encountered several scenarios in which customers have multiple developers working on a single web application in Visual Studio. In such cases, it's not uncommon for each developer to be working on a portion of the application. There isn't any problem...
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Tags: ASP.NETIISVisual Studio
Sep 01, 2009
In March of this year, we released ASP.NET MVC. Since then, many ASP.NET developers have been perplexed about MVC. Many developers aren't quite sure what MVC is and what it means for ASP.NET developers. Many more developers have some level of understanding...
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Tags: ASP.NET
Jul 20, 2009
Recently, I came across an issue where the customer faced an FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) related error on the .aspx pages which had debug=”true”. His ASP.net application was hosted on IIS7 running on Windows Server 2008 SP2. And, he...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETIIS6FIPS.NET
Jun 23, 2009
The GridView control is often used to display tabular data, much like an Excel spreadsheet. However, unlike Excel, the GridView control doesn't have any automatic way of locking the header row so that it doesn't scroll out of view. Check out this example...
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Tags: ASP.NETCode
Jun 18, 2009
We've seen a few issues recently where customers were experiencing very slow async postbacks via an UpdatePanel, but only in Internet Explorer. Other browsers worked fine. (When I say "very slow," I mean in the neighborhood of 30 seconds!) The cause for...
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Tags: ASP.NETAJAX
May 22, 2009
When the .NET Framework was first released, many developers believed the introduction of the garbage collector meant never having to worry about memory management ever again. In fact, while the garbage collector is efficient in managing memory in a managed...
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Tags: ASP.NETHigh Memory
May 05, 2009
This is just a quick blog to mention a forgotten tool. The managed stack explorer can be run on an IIS 6.0 Server running ASP.NET 2.0 to investigate the managed call stacks. Looking at the call stacks when an ASP.NET application is not responding may...
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Tags: ASP.NETIIS6DebuggingHang
Mar 15, 2009
Metabase.xml is the central store where IIS 6.0 stores most of its configuration information. Its a plain text file and stores all the information in a simple XML format. The XML format naturally raised a notion of being able to XCOPY the config file...
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Tags: IIS7ASP.NETIIS