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This blog entry is a continuation of the KB Article http://support.microsoft.com/?id=910447. Scenario 8: Checking the traffic/requests between a specific client and server Why would you do it in the first place? You may want to troubleshoot an authenticate
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This blog entry is a continuation of the KB Article http://support.microsoft.com/?id=910447. Scenario 7: Searching specific column data from a CSV file using Logparser Let's say you have a CSV (comma separated value) text file as follows... abc,abd,ac,rd,abe,f,g
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I like taking photos, and recently when I wanted to share some photographs with a couple of relatives via USB drive, I found a pretty interesting issue. I had about 200 pictures which I wanted to copy in my 1 GB USB drive. I selected all of them and when
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Okay, first of all a disclaimer... don't try this on a production box. I am lucky enough to have a spare Win 2k3 box to play with and do the changes required. So without any further ado, let me point out a KB which is often misread... 916984 . Recently,
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Problem description> You have a Listbox where you have a lot of items which are quite large and won't fit inside the width of your listbox. You don't want to enable Horizontal Scroll bar, since you have don't want your users to keep scrolling left
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I was working with IIS at my home, and while looking at the Task Manager, I found a suspicious looking EXE running under the SYSTEM account. It was suspicious because the name of the EXE was fffccccMLP.exe. It just scared the hell out of me, since I haven't
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I was working on a pretty tricky issue a while ago. It was related to the Visual Studio IDE high memory consumption and slowness and I found that there are a lot of files in the Source Folder. So much so, that my gut feeling was saying that it is the
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Let's have a look at the difference between Connection timeout and ASP Script Timeout today! 1. Connection Timeout in Default Web Site As you can see below, the Default Web Site properties on my Win 2k3 machine has Connection Timeout set to 120 seconds.
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I created a Windows Live Writer plug-in for inserting Smileys a while ago. It depends on a TXT file which was initially present under Application Folder + "\Plugin" folder. Recently, due to design changes in the beta version of WLW, the plug-in started
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Sometimes, while troubleshooting I am interested to find out all the details about certain collections in ASP.NET, like Forms, QueryStrings, Headers, ServerVariables, Cookies, Sessions and Params... I created a very simple aspx page which would show you
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This blog post intends to shed some light on the default behavior of a few things related to cookies in conjunction with SSL and Frameset. After reading through this post, you should have a better understanding of how things should ideally look like,
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Scenario: You want to implement Forms based authentication for ASP.NET web application, and you have certain document/PDF files which need to be protected. It should be such that even if you try to browse that .doc file directly, it should take you to
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In this article I have discussed some of the common reasons for session loss issues in ASP.NET. I have also discussed about how you should think of fixing these issues yourself in a logical way. http://aspalliance.com/1182_Troubleshooting_Session_Related_Issues_in_ASPNET
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This is a pretty small sample to help you figure out the ASP.NET identity matrix and how it comes in effect. I am posting this since quite often we need to troubleshoot security related issues on a production website and making any Application level changes
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Got an interesting one today... Customer had a Windows 2000 box and lots of websites. Everything use to run fine till a moment when they started getting the following error out of the blue. Interestingly, recycling the Application pool would solve this
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