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In one of my previous posts , I mentioned about how to troubleshoot some issues with the use of a module. In this post, I will show you how a similar module could be of use when you want to log all the errors in a text file for troubleshooting purposes.
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When I tried opening the AjaxControlToolkit.sln by double clicking on it, it was throwing the following error at me... --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- The application for project 'H:\Downloads\AjaxControlToolkit\SampleWebSite'
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Or... what exactly is this "Compatibility Files" folder icon doing in my Windows Explorer?? Jerry's Blog explains this stuff beautifully! So, why am I blogging about this? Well... to cut the long story short, I have lost almost 3 hours yesterday searching
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There are quite a few times, when I get an issue related with a specific DataControl and I want to bind it to a datasource. All geared up and with full enthusiasm, I start dealing with the issue... and DARN... I find that I did something awfully bad with
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Problem Description Issues when you try to Publish your website from Visual Studio 2005. It might happen if you create a File System project called <someName> and while publishing you use the same name in IIS. To reproduce this issue, create a simple
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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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First of all, I wouldn't pretend to know something which I don't. But this is kindda interesting... I got a comment on one of my previous posts from Boyd who was seeing a weird error on Vista. He had an application with the following code... Sub test()
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Today, while I was trying to read a mail sent with Permissions, I was unable to do it. It threw the following error message... Your Information Rights Management configuration is invalid and needs to be repaired. For more information, contact your system
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It seems like I have a knack to invite problems (and try to fix it ). I have learnt a lot of valuable lessons while troubleshooting issues at GTSC. I will share some of them today... of course with respect to the issue that I faced this morning! Before
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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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Post Production Debugging for ASPNET Applications Part 1 This article discusses how to become comfortable with some of the tools available for ASP.NET so that you can use them effectively when time is more precious than gold, especially when there is
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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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