Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in January 2009

Javascript Array Fun
January 26, 2009 @ 4:22 pm

Arrays in Javascript are really dynamic and have behaviors that in some cases might be unexpected. In this post I talk about a bug reported in a component to me recently that involves one of these dynamic behaviors and caused me some confusion at first.

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SSL Certificate Renewal Pain
January 21, 2009 @ 12:49 am

I ran into some problems this time around renewing my SSL certificate for west-wind.com and it looks like the problem is related to how IIS 7 handles renewals. After all the years of problems with certificate renewals in IIS I figured that by now Microsoft would have this nailed, but in the end only a completely new certificate request managed to work for me.

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Silverlight HomePage is a good Laugh!
January 20, 2009 @ 2:31 am

Silverlight is going to be center stage today with the Silverlight player being chosen for providing Web viewing of Obama’s inauguration. That’s great for promotion… but… there’s always a but. A big butt in this case. So tonight I decided to check the Silverlight site to see what they have to say about the use of SL for the big day tomorrow and also to see what they might say about Moonlight...

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Assembly Loading across AppDomains
January 19, 2009 @ 2:53 am

Every time I need to load .NET assemblies from a non-default path in an application I end up spending quite a bit of time trying to get it right. Today was no different: I had a situation where I needed to create a type in a seperate AppDomain based on a dynamically generated assembly that might live in a directory other than the application’s base path. This is sort of like a perfect storm of...

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Monitoring HTTP Output with Fiddler in .NET HTTP Clients and WCF Proxies
January 14, 2009 @ 12:36 am

Http debugging is immensely useful and Fiddler is a nice tool that provides many options and an easy to use interface to monitor HTTP requests to get maximum information about each request. In order to monitor requests of .NET clients like WebClient, HttpWebRequest or WCF or Web Service proxies you need a little additional configuration to get Fiddler to monitor these requests.

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Accessing Html Document Content in other Frames
January 06, 2009 @ 5:13 pm

Accessing content across HTML frames can be quite useful in some scenarios when operations need to be abstracted and separated from the main content but still provide some feedback back to a calling frame or vice versa. While cross frame access should be minimized as much as possible, when you do need it there are a few easy and effective ways you can communicate across frames with the HTML DOM.

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Oil's cheap again, but can we afford to be careless?
January 01, 2009 @ 3:32 pm

Oil is under $40 as I write this, which is down from over $147 sometime in July. So isn’t it high time to go out and buy those bargain basement Hummers to start burning up this cheap oil? I’m kidding of course, but some people never learn apparently as they are falling for lower oil prices and incentives from auto-manufacturers to continue down gas guzzling alley. It’s not all that surprising...

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