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Setting up a new .Text site (personal)

benmiller — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:45:00 GMT

I thought I would post my adventures with .Text setup so that some people may benefit.

I currently have a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/benmiller and this is my space on Microsoft’s turf. I have had a personal blog out on www.benmiller.net/blog and have not done much to publicize it. So I thought that instead of cluttering up the site and having to avoid the /blog application on benmiller.net I would make a blog site at http://blog.benmiller.net.

So the first thing I did was to put the code that I used for my original personal blog on my new site. Then I used the same database which is a great thing about .Text and the configs. I then proceeded to do the IIS mapping described, which is to map .* to the aspnet_isapi.dll in IIS. I tried to pull up the site and it was gross looking.

I got really frustrated after I added the blog to the blog_config table and browsed the new site and got nothing but a weird page. To make a long story short, I found out that if you have the .* mapped to the ISAPI, then you have to add the following lines to the web.config:

You can remove the above if you do not map .* to aspnet_isapi.dll.

Then I found out that I could view the blogs, but could not for the life of me login to the admin. I could post an entry from another application (newsgator) and the post would show up. Well, after a long time of trying whatever I could, I thought I would try to login to my blog.benmiller.net on another machine. Well, I was able to. Now what?

I noticed that when I went to http://www.benmiller.net/blog that I was already logged in so I could just go into admin. I began to think about cookies, and since I had different usernames and passwords for each site, there had to be a conflict.

This is what I found. I found out that a cookie was being written for benmiller.net and it was conflicting with me trying to login to the admin on http://blog.benmiller.net since benmiller.net is the root domain. When I deleted that cookie, I was able to login to my admin on blog.benmiller.net.

I am clear now and will make sure that I don’t have conflicting cookies any more.

I hope that this helps someone, and I would be happy to answer any questions about what I found, as this was a 3 day process.

Happy Blogging.

Rob Howard will be speaking at SLC User Group

benmiller — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 20:48:00 GMT

I am excited to be able to have Rob Howard come and speak to our User Group tomorrow at 6:00 PM. Salt Lake is growing in the .NET space and in the recognition of the need for User Group meetings. Rob is coming with the INETA Speakers Bureau and will be our speaker for the night.

For those in the Salt Lake Area, join us for a great night of ASP.NET 2.0 stuff.

Directory name changes in ASP.NET 2.0

benmiller — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:16:00 GMT

Be sure to get a look at Brian Goldfarb’s post on directory name changes for ASP.NET 2.0.

Christian Weyers WsContractFirst add-in

benmiller — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 03:45:00 GMT

I just downloaded Christian Weyer’s WsContractFirst Visual Studio Add-In. I wanted to try it because I want to bind the results of the webservices I call to a DataGrid or another databind-able control. This worked like a champ. On the above site it explains what the tool does, but I wanted to tell Christian that it was a very nice thing to have. Making the public fields into Properties is a great time saver as I would have had to do it by hand.

Integration with Web Services will be more fun now.

Imaging in .NET

benmiller — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:49:00 GMT

I was playing around with an ASP project and used the ASPImage from serverobjects.com to do some stuff in ASP to resize and change DPI, etc.

But I wanted to do this in ASP.NET so that I could mass change the image sizes and create thumbnails (sort of). So I did a google search of [image resize .net] and I got some interesting links and some were good and others were not. I found this link on the second page to resize images and I tweaked it to make them the size I wanted to and to keep proportions correct. I was surprised how easy it was to get it to generate thumbnails for me.

I then went after changing the DPI of the image to 72. By default, I found that the Framework uses 96 dpi for it’s images and that if I used the System.Drawing.Image.SetResolution(int, int) that I could change it from 96 to 72. One thing I found that I could not change the original graphics DPI, I had to copy that image into the new graphic at that dpi. It worked and I was very happy to learn this. Not earth shattering, but a new one for me.

Happy Imaging…