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Debugging ASP.NET, the CLR and anything that uses clock cycles.

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November 2008 - Posts

Fix available for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 localised IntelliSense problem
When Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Visual Studio 2008 came out it unfortunately introduced a problem whereby some localised IntelliSense  text was reverted to English. This affects the following language versions of the service pack: Chinese (simplified Read More...
Learn IIS7 : short tutorial videos available on IIS.NET, plus more
There is a lot of great information available to help you learn IIS7 over at IIS.NET . Also available are short video tutorials. Unless I am missing something there is no overall list of the available videos so here is one I've created... Installing necessary Read More...
Useful document about .NET Framework 2.0 Security
The US NSA have a free, unclassified, 300 page, very useful looking document about .NET Framework 2.0 Security: http://www.nsa.gov/snac/app/I731-008R-2006.pdf HTH Doug Read More...
Bogus error messages during compilation of C# web projects after installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1
A fix has published for an issue whereby after installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 you may see bogus error messages during compilation of your C# based web projects. You may see lots of compilation error messages in the output pane when you compile a project Read More...
Random and unexpected EXCEPTION_FLT_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO and EXCEPTION_FLT_INVALID__OPERATION
Your application is running fine then one day it starts to fail with EXCEPTION_FLT_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO (0xC000008E) or EXCEPTION_FLT_INVALID__OPERATION (0xC0000090) exceptions at seemingly random places. Why? One reason might be the current value of the floating Read More...
It's true - brain cells disappear with age..
I came across some old code that I wrote when I was about 17:   The BBC Micro came with a built in 6502 assembler (Basic with inline assembly language - awesome!). However it did not have a dis-assembler so I set about writing my own. This was clearly Read More...
Another pile of new stuff..
I've been a bit busy of late and new and interesting stuff keeps piling into my inbox without enough time in the day to look at it. So here is a dump of links to stuff I think looks interesting before I forget about it...   Microsoft® Silverlight™ Read More...
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