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This time the customer was using the "Web Site Administrator Tool" wizard to create the authentication mechanism (based on SqlExpress membership) for his site. As usual everything was working fine on his development machine, but after deploying the application Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:10 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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Debugger not debugging, and Response.Redirect() not redirecting...

The customer was working on a WinXP machine joined to a domain, but had logged in using a local account (I've not tested if this may have contributed to the problem so this may be a useless information). Anyway to make things easy I connected to the faulting Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 10:40 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments

How to: contact Carlo

Lately I've been receiving emails and comments to my posts asking for help on specific issues, to request hotfixes etc.... Unfortunately I can't guarantee the attention needed in those cases since I blog in my spare time (what's left ) and can't always Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:51 AM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments

Avoid UAC prompt in IE component

Wow, this has been a tough one I closed this afternoon. The customer has developed a custom IE toolbar to interact with their portal, and found that when running this on Vista, IE displayed a warning dialog asking the user's consent to run an external Read More...
Posted Friday, June 22, 2007 10:45 PM by Carlo Cardella | 15 Comments

Quick hint: "Server Unavailable" error

I stumbled into this error this afternoon, while working on a repro for a customer: if you need to have your application pool running under an account other than the default NETWORK SERVICE, and when you try to browse your application you get a nasty Read More...
Posted Friday, June 22, 2007 12:05 AM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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ActiveX component can't create object... a tough one!

This week I've been working on a case from a customer who was migrating his web application to Windows 2003, and while on the old servers (Windows 2000) and on his development machine everything was working fine (as usual ), after deployment on the production Read More...
Posted Friday, June 15, 2007 11:22 PM by Carlo Cardella | 3 Comments

Security bug in Vista recovery console? Well... not quite...

My colleague Feliciano Intini (Chief Security Advisor here at Microsoft Italy) just pointed me to his post were he comments about a news which is (re)spreading across the web about a security hole in the recovery console in Windows Vista: if you can read Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:32 PM by Carlo Cardella | 4 Comments

Compiler Error Message: CS0433 in ASP.NET 2.0

A few days ago a friend of mine had the Compiler Error Message: CS0433 error in his precompiled site, and proposed me a deal: a dinner for my help , and since also Support Engineers sometimes need to eat, I accepted . The exact error message was the following: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:11 AM by Carlo Cardella | 31 Comments
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Spell checker missing in Windows Live Writer beta 2

A few days ago I installed the newly released beta 2 of Windows Live Writer , and immediately noted (with a bit of disappointment) that the spell checker was missing... After various tests (reinstalling on other machines I have, checking that all assembly Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 10, 2007 10:53 PM by Carlo Cardella | 2 Comments
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How Fast Can You Type?

Here is some OT fun to start the day Fingerjig is a fun little typing game that tests your accuracy and speed for randomly selected words (each level tests a different typing skill). From How Fast Can You Type? Direct link to the test: http://www.jonmiles.co.uk/fingerjig.php Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 7:40 AM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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