Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in June 2005

ASP.NET 2.0 Compilation Mode Gotcha – Web Project HTTP Handlers
June 28, 2005 @ 4:41 pm

If you have HTTP Handlers in your 1.1 app that are part of your Web project, make sure you closely check your Http Handler definitions in web.config - likely they are broken because you are referencing the project DLL which no longer exists in ASP.NET 2.0.

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ASP.NET 2.0 Application Deployment in the real world (mine )
June 27, 2005 @ 6:43 pm

I took my Web Store application live with ASP.NET 2.0 over the weekend and I'm still struggling with how to best manage updating my application online. The new ASP.NET Compilation options really make deployment a hassle and come with some serious drawbacks.

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Visual Studio .NET 2005 hang ups and Process Explore to the Rescue
June 25, 2005 @ 1:03 am

VS.NET 2005 has some funky UI quirks where the UI just goes into an endless loop selecting controls. Often this results in a lockup where you have to kill VS.NET. Using Process Explorer and Bring Window to Front you can avoid a shutdown in most cases.

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XML parsing, Namespaces and Web.Config in ASP.NET 2.0
June 23, 2005 @ 2:28 am

ASP.NET 2.0 adds a new namespace directive to web.config, which is likely to break manual XML parsing of the file using the DOM. Well, it bit me at least and fixing such an innocuous addition was a bit more work that you might think. Default namespaces in XMLDOM are no joy...

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SmartPhone Thoughts
June 19, 2005 @ 9:11 pm

I got through my SmartPhone session at DevTeach today and after having a few discussions over the last few days here are a few thoughts on the platform.

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VB.NET rant
June 08, 2005 @ 4:02 pm

VB.NET is absolutely no fun. It's a good way for me to waste my day away for something that shoulda taken maybe an hour to several hours. Painful.

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Passing Arrays to a .NET COM object from Visual FoxPro
June 07, 2005 @ 3:24 pm

Passing arrays from VFP over COM is always a tricky affair because VFP arrays require some special marshalling hints in order to properly translate. This entry shows how to pass VFP arrays to .NET and retrieve array results from .NET COM objects.

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Script Callbacks in ASP.NET 2.0 - interesting, but lacking
June 06, 2005 @ 11:02 am

This entry is an introduction to ScriptCallbacks in ASP.NET 2.0 and a few observations and comments on the design and implementation. It seems this interface provides a core engine behavior that is pretty low level, but doesn't do anything to facility the actual process of data exchange between the client and server.

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Adding default Namespaces and Control libraries in ASP.NET 2.0 with web.config
June 04, 2005 @ 11:11 am

There are some welcome configuration additions to the ASP.NET 2.0 web.config layout that allow you to specify default namespaces and controls that are accessible to ASPX pages to make it easier to access related classes and controls more generically.

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