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November 2006 - Posts

Help, my application crashes! No, it hangs... Uhm... we get a strange error... What...?!? (the importance of a proper problem description)

Dealing on a daily basis with customers and the problems they encounter using Microsoft technologies and products, and having to help them troubleshoot and resolve those problems, specially at the beginning of a new support call (after I pick the case Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 22, 2006 4:25 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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Don't slide your expiration without cookies!

This week I've been working on a problem which at the beginning seemed to be just a matter of configuration but that then took some more time that I expected to resolve... so, here it is. In my ASP.NET 2.0 application I edit my web.config to set slidingExpiration=”true” Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 10:33 PM by Carlo Cardella | 6 Comments
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Visual Studio 2005 hotfixes made public for download

After reading this post a while ago regarding the availability Policy for some hotfixes (e.g., not all hotfixes are public for download, and you have to call Microsoft Support to obtain the one you need), I had an internal discussion with my team on this Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 7:20 PM by Carlo Cardella | 2 Comments

Code Access Security hosting control in IE

PROBLEM You have a Windows Forms component hosted in Internet Explorer, and you want to catch events raised by this control from client side scripting; to avoid security errors at runtime, the control must have "Allow calls to unmanaged assemblies" permission. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 6:51 PM by Carlo Cardella | 13 Comments
 
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