This week I got an interesting issue altogether. One of my customers was unable to debug ASP.NET 3.5 application locally using Visual Studio 2008. The application was created using Web Application Project. When we started the application using "Start...

Few days back I came across an issue with Publish Web Site and assembly versioning. One of my customers was trying to publish a web site as non-updatable with "Use Fixed Naming and Single Page Assembly" option. Also at the same time they are setting the...

Recently I was working on issue with ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider of ASP.NET 2.0 and I came across interesting finding which I thought of sharing. The scenario which I had was a little tricky. One of my customers was using ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider...

One of my customers ran into this issue couple of months ago. I wanted to blog it earlier but I was waiting for the Fix to come out. The typical scenario is - you are using the System.Web.RoleManager of .NET Framework 2.0 along with Ajax Extensions...

This week I got an interesting issue altogether. One of my customers was unable to turn off the CustomErrors at all. We checked all the web.config files in hierarchy including the web.config and machine.config in C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0...

Few days’ back one funny issue came to me. All of a sudden on one of the Windows 2003 server my customer was getting “HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error” for any .asp pages in the application. It stopped working since last couple days and used to work earlier...

This a bit of a tricky thing. We all know the famous KB for “How to turn on remote debugging in Windows XP with Service Pack 2, in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, or in Windows Vista” and we do all these settings on the Vista box to turn on debugging...

At Microsoft PSS, we get a lot of Hotfix requests. Till few days ago we always required customers to call into Microsoft Product Support to get a Hotfix. But since few days we have made many, if not all, Hotfixes available on web. So now on getting Hotfix...

Many times we need pop-up windows to appear in our Web Applications. In such a scenario we have the same user session used by the two instances of the web browser. So for N number of pop-ups we open, we have N instances of browsers using the same user...

Introduction:   This is the first post of mine so thought of starting with a simple but tricky issue which I came across in few support incidents I have handled. I had a scenario where one of my customers was getting an error message like - Invalid...