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Want to persist your properties as markup?

Last week I got a request from a customer whom was developing a custom ASP.NET control targeted for other developers, and one of his requirements was to persist the control's properties in the html markup, even for the default values which normally Visual Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:15 PM by carloc | 0 Comments
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Don't let IE local cache drive you crazy!

I stumbled across this issue multiple times during my life of web developer (which begun about 10 years ago), it appeared every now and then to complicate things when I was in the middle of a heavy debugging sessions and doing frequent changes to my pages; Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 16, 2007 2:04 PM by carloc | 4 Comments

Corrupt installation? Do not repair Visual Studio

(Unable to start debugging on the web server. An error occurred that usually indicates a corrupt installation. If the problem persists, repair Visual Studio installation via 'Add or Remove Programs' in Control Panel)   I saw this happening on a Vista Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 5:44 PM by carloc | 0 Comments
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The error indicates that IIS is not installed on the machine. Please install IIS before using this tool

Yesterday I was working on a sample project got from a customer, when Visual Studio 2005 showed this dialog:   Ok I thought, let's fix the application mappings . I did, but got the following:   What? Are you kidding me? Of course IIS is installed, Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 24, 2007 12:39 PM by carloc | 3 Comments

Visual Studio debugger conflicts on port 80

I personally got this problem on my laptop a while ago where IIS and Skype where involved, and even if this time the customer reported two different applications involved (Visual Studio 2005 and Cisco IP Communicator), the symptoms where the same: with Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 22, 2007 4:37 PM by carloc | 3 Comments

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 carloc | 0 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 carloc | 11 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 carloc | 1 Comments

Windows Control Library does not resize correctly if you change IE window size

Hosting a Windows Control Library control in an ASP.NET 2.0 page, the WCL does not resize correctly, if you change the size of the IE Window. The problem does not occur using .NET Framework 1.1 The problem is a regression in Visual Studio 2005 which prevents Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:15 AM by carloc | 2 Comments
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Unable to attach to process (on localhost)

Another interesting one I got a few days ago: after installing the SP1 for Visual Studio 2003, the customer was unable to debug his web application (on localhost) neither pressing F5 nor attaching to the target w3wp.exe process. As you can imagine, removing Read More...
Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 3:09 PM by carloc | 9 Comments

Sweet sorrow... remote debugging (and more)

Continuing from my previous post on common causes for memory leaks, remote debugging is another ASP.NET feature that has the potentiality to either delight (uhm... am I exaggerating here...? ) a web developer or drive him completely crazy I remember 8-9 Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 6:42 PM by carloc | 1 Comments
 
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