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We've encountered several scenarios in which customers have multiple developers working on a single web application in Visual Studio. In such cases, it's not uncommon for each developer to be working on a portion of the application. There isn't any problem
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In March of this year, we released ASP.NET MVC. Since then, many ASP.NET developers have been perplexed about MVC. Many developers aren't quite sure what MVC is and what it means for ASP.NET developers. Many more developers have some level of understanding
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What is ASP.NET Session? A session is defined as the period of time a unique user interacts with a particular web application. HTTP is a stateless protocol, in the sense that a Web server is concerned only with the current HTTP request for any given Web
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Recently, I came across an issue where the customer faced an FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) related error on the .aspx pages which had debug=”true”. His ASP.net application was hosted on IIS7 running on Windows Server 2008 SP2. And, he
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The GridView control is often used to display tabular data, much like an Excel spreadsheet. However, unlike Excel, the GridView control doesn't have any automatic way of locking the header row so that it doesn't scroll out of view. Check out this example
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We've seen a few issues recently where customers were experiencing very slow async postbacks via an UpdatePanel, but only in Internet Explorer. Other browsers worked fine. (When I say "very slow", I mean in the neighborhood of 30 seconds!) The cause for
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Some common causes of OutOfMemoryExceptions in ASP.NET applications and information on how to resolve these exceptions.
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In the recent past I have come across several issues where our customers have started running into ViewState issues after installing SP1 for .NET Framework 3.5. The exception details are similar to the following: Server Error in '/ActionTest' Application.
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This is just a quick blog to mention a forgotten tool. The managed stack explorer can be run on an IIS 6.0 Server running ASP.NET 2.0 to investigate the managed call stacks. Looking at the call stacks when an ASP.NET application is not responding may
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Metabase.xml is the central store where IIS 6.0 stores most of its configuration information. Its a plain text file and stores all the information in a simple XML format. The XML format naturally raised a notion of being able to XCOPY the config file
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If you implement custom health monitoring events in ASP.NET chances are that you should have worked with WebBaseEvent or WebErrorEvent classes and used the WebBaseEvent.Raise() method to fire those events. Recently an interesting issue related to this
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Few days back I came across an issue with Publish Web Site and assembly versioning. One of my customers was trying to publish a web site as non-updatable with "Use Fixed Naming and Single Page Assembly" option. Also at the same time they are
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This week I got an interesting issue altogether. One of my customers was unable to turn off the CustomErrors at all. We checked all the web.config files in hierarchy including the web.config and machine.config in C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG.
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This a bit of a tricky thing. We all know the famous KB for “How to turn on remote debugging in Windows XP with Service Pack 2, in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, or in Windows Vista” and we do all these settings on the Vista box to turn on debugging.
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Many times we need pop-up windows to appear in our Web Applications. In such a scenario we have the same user session used by the two instances of the web browser. So for N number of pop-ups we open, we have N instances of browsers using the same user
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