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Hosting on a UNC share is not supported for the Windows XP Platform

If you have a complex solution, with a lot of folders and subfolders, and you are hosting and debugging it on a remote IIS server (not on your local machine), you may get an error similar to the following: An error occurred loading a configuration file: Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 06, 2009 11:43 AM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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An authentication error occurred while communicating with the web server

I’m back after the summer break (3 weeks spent trying to master the “Do It Yourself” art at home ) and my second day in office I got an interesting problem with remote debugging : after installing the Service Pack 2 for .NET 2.0, when trying to debug Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 30, 2009 10:25 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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TabContainer rendered incorrectly in Design View

One of the (very few) downsides I see working in Customer Support is that most of the times when talking to colleagues and friends or writing a new post for my blog, I find myself talking about problems, bugs, exceptions… what is not working fine, like Read More...
Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 10:19 PM by Carlo Cardella | 5 Comments
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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 available for download

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe) This download installs Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. SP1 addresses issues that were found through a combination of customer and partner feedback, as well as internal Read More...
Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 5:59 PM by Carlo Cardella | 2 Comments

Visual Studio 2008 crashes in “split view”

“Split view” is one of the new features in Visual Studio 2008 web designer: this is the possibility to have Design View and Source View of your page at the same time (see What's New in ASP.NET and Web Development , “Visual Web Developer Enhancements” Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:07 AM by Carlo Cardella | 11 Comments

Again on public hotfix download

I already touched the subject in a couple of previous posts and replying to direct comments and question I got, and to confirm that we’re doing something (hopefully in the right way ) on this matter I want to highlight this news from Jeff: Migrating hotfixes Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:21 AM by Carlo Cardella | 4 Comments

Version numbers in a compiled assembly

A while ago I got a call from a customer who wanted to understand what is the meaning of the version number's in a compiled assembly and more than that, he wanted to understand how they are calculated. He expected that at least the build number were incremented Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 9:27 AM by Carlo Cardella | 1 Comments
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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 Carlo Cardella | 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 Carlo Cardella | 4 Comments

The weight of security

This morning I had a call with a customer which reported a performance problem opening and compiling a VB.NET 2005 web application made of hundreds of files; we have a couple of hotfixes for VS2005 included in SP1, but the customer already had it. He Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:40 PM by Carlo Cardella | 1 Comments
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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 Carlo Cardella | 1 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 Carlo Cardella | 5 Comments

Visual Studio designer, CodeDom and InitializeComponent()

The code problem A few days ago I had the chance to work on a case not concerning ASP.NET or IIS, but rather an interaction with Visual Studio designer with classes from System.CodeDom namespace. The customer was developing a custom control meant for Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 04, 2007 11:48 PM by Carlo Cardella | 4 Comments

My goodness, were's gone my Properties window?!?

I had a funny half-hour this afternoon, when one of my colleagues took a new call from a customer whom had some troubles with the Properties window in his Visual Studio 2005... The customer reported a weird behavior within the Visual Studio IDE in particular Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:57 PM by Carlo Cardella | 7 Comments
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Visual Studio as the definitive text editor?

That's a clever question and I have to admit I've never thought to Visual Studio in this way, even if I tried different text editors and I still have more than one on my machine ( Notepad2 , Notepad++ , PSPad ). Anyway, while you thing about it take a Read More...
Posted Friday, September 07, 2007 11:56 PM by Carlo Cardella | 0 Comments
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