Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in November 2004

ASP.NET State Service Crash
November 30, 2004 @ 12:03 pm

The State Service is great for having a persistent state management that can survive ASP.NET application cycles. But I've seen some recent instabilities and today an outright failure of the service that makes me wonder whether the service is really such a good choice.

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Crashing VS.NET during an add-in compile
November 30, 2004 @ 11:44 am

Never fails. When you're on the road the weirdest problems will manifest. This one was a problem with an add-in that didn't quite unload causing VS.NET to crash consistently during compilation.

An InputBox Class for .NET
November 23, 2004 @ 6:50 pm

C# doesn't have an InputBox() function like VB does and even the VB version is fairly limited for inputing anything but text strings. Here's a class that provides generic single line input for text, numeric and date values in a simple and easy to use class that you can use in your projects.

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Customer Service nightmares
November 23, 2004 @ 4:52 pm

I've been dealing with a broken Dell laptop for weeks now and while I was glad to find out that I can fix it myself trying to get the part I needed turned out to be harder than anything else in this process.

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Internet Explorer Woes Once Again
November 19, 2004 @ 8:25 pm

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Asynchronous Processing and Queuing with MSMQ or not?
November 15, 2004 @ 4:48 pm

Async request handling in Web applications is often a tricky task and there are lots of approaches to offload processing to other processes or machines. Here I describe some first thoughts about comparing use of MSMQ and a custom database approach to passing messages between processes. The custom approach seems more capable to me, but it's obviously non-standard...

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Murphy's Conference Laws
November 09, 2004 @ 8:03 am

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Setting File or Directory permissions ACE entries with .NET using CACLS.EXE
November 06, 2004 @ 6:18 am

Ever need to find a quick way to set access permissions to a directory or file in .NET. Here's a class that wrappers the tried and true CACLS.EXE Windows utility so you can programmatically assign ACEs to a path.

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On the road again: German candy and a conference
November 06, 2004 @ 5:32 am

I'm off again travelling this time to Germany, land of christmas candy, beer and bratwurst. Hmmm... Schlemmer Tour.

FireFox and this WebLog
November 04, 2004 @ 8:35 pm

I'm having some issues with FireFox and the markup Word generates for code which causes FireFox to loose its margins and write text in places it shouldn't.

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Building a generic Web Configuration Utility
November 01, 2004 @ 2:40 pm

I finally got around to creating a simple generic Web Configuration Utility that allows easy creation of a Web Virtual, Setting Directory Permissions, Fixing a VS.NET Solution File and account configuration for MSDE which are the main tasks that I usually have to deal with when shipping XCOPY deployed Web applications, samples or demos. The utility can be downloaded and is free to use and distribute...

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