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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 carloc | 3 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 carloc | 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 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

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 carloc | 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 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 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 carloc | 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 carloc | 5 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 carloc | 0 Comments
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Quickly arrange icons on your toolbars

This is a trick I learnt a few years ago in Office (don't remember exactly if was 97 or 2000 ) since I like to customize my working environment "in my way" (like everyone else, I guess ), but I don't like to waste time digging into menus, config Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:35 PM by carloc | 1 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
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