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May 2007 - Posts

Broken line in ASP.NET 2.0 TreeView in IE 7

Create a very simple page in ASP.NET 2.0, add a TreeView control and set ShowLines=true ; now browse the page with Internet Explorer 7: you'll very likely see something like this:   In IE 6 this looks good... The point is that Internet Explorer 7 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:48 AM by Carlo Cardella | 43 Comments

The importance of breaking changes

Yesterday I closed a case about a migration issue from ASP.NET 1.1 to 2.0. The customer built this application based on ASP.NET 1.1 to generate some PDF documents on the fly on the web server, and stream the content to the client for reading; the application Read More...
Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 8:48 AM by Carlo Cardella | 3 Comments
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ASP.NET 2.0 application running in Firefox and not running in IE

Every now and then we get calls from a customer who decided to migrate his application from ASP.NET 1.1 to 2.0 (and sometimes those are mission-critical ones...) just changing the relevant mappings in IIS console, to then discover that the application Read More...
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 11:30 PM by Carlo Cardella | 1 Comments

Blog title contest

As I guess many of you have noted, I'm not native English speaking so even if I try to write in a simple and appropriate form to the context of this blog (and I should apoligize for my mistakes), I sometimes find miself wondering how to exactly express Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 12, 2007 6:06 PM by Carlo Cardella | 4 Comments
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Italian MS bloggers, a new community is born

Last Wednesday I took part to the first (non) meeting of the new-born Italian bloggers community: we were a bunch of people united by the passion for technology, who happen woking in the same company and whom share an interest (if not a passion, in some Read More...
Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 11:06 PM by Carlo Cardella | 4 Comments
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Murphy's law (i.e. never play with your demos right before a presentation!)

Or at least if you do, just make sure to have a backup copy of the working demo in a safe place for a quick last minute restore! (if you are just curious, you can learn more in Wikipedia and on the Murphy's law site ) Carlo Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:38 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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The public/private hotfix debate

Every now and then the question comes back in the limelight: " Why some hotfixes are publicly available to download, but most of the times I have to call CSS to get one? " and " Wouldn't be easier if we could just download the fix ourselves? At least Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 10:09 PM by Carlo Cardella | 1 Comments
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Need to pass cookies between machines on the same LAN?

Then in your web.config use an authentication section similar to the following: < authentication mode ="Forms" > < forms name ="myCookie" timeout ="20" loginUrl ="Default.aspx" defaultUrl ="Default.aspx" protection ="All" path ="/" requireSSL Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 06, 2007 1:27 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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Are you profiling your application and now you can't debug anymore?

This is an interesting case I got very recently and that made me scratch my head a lot, wondering what was going wrong on customer's machine for a while... until I called Doug on the rescue and we (he) drove the call to an happy ending I got this case Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 06, 2007 12:11 AM by Carlo Cardella | 1 Comments
 
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