Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in December 2006

IIS 7 Integrated Pipeline Debugging on Vista, again
December 29, 2006 @ 12:17 am

Mike Volodarsky posts more information how to get F5 debugging working properly in Visual Studio. Due to the way Authentication works in ASP.NET 2.0 some debugging scenarios with F5 fail and a workaround is required.

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Terminal Server Awareness
December 28, 2006 @ 1:42 am

Today I needed to differentiate some code that runs a stock windows interface or running under Terminal Services as the UI presented would look horrible and stutter badly under TS. Here's a quick code snippet that demonstrates how to check for Terminal Server and branch if necessary.

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Sudden Failure of ProcessExplorer
December 27, 2006 @ 2:27 pm

Process Explorer is goofing for me over the last few days by not displaying a process tree nor any of the advanced settings I have it configured for.

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RegisterClientScriptResource and the Type Parameter
December 26, 2006 @ 3:37 pm

Usage of RegisterClientScriptResource's Type parameter can cause some unexpected behavior if you're using the all to common this.GetType() for a control. If multiple controls share the same resource be sure to use a common type or you might end up with multiple script references in your HTML

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IIS 7 Integrated Pipeline Debugging, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and Request Tracing
December 26, 2006 @ 1:21 am

Visual Studio 2005 SP 1 allows debugging IIS 7 applications in Integrated Pipeline mode. In most cases - I've run into a few problems and solutions trying to figure out what went wrong and into one problem that I haven't been able to resolve yet.

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Reflection on Problem Assemblies
December 22, 2006 @ 10:00 pm

I ran into a problem today in Help Builder where a bad assembly reference was causing problems with importing type information properly. Here are a few thoughts and a question to see if there are alternatives for type parsing.

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Expanding Urls with RegEx in .NET
December 21, 2006 @ 6:42 pm

I frequently need to parse and auto-expand URLs inside of user input. Here's the routine I use to do this.

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Update for the free wwHoverPanel AJAX Control posted
December 20, 2006 @ 1:34 am

I've posted another update to the free wwHoverPanel AJAX control that provides some useful new functionality and compatibility with MS Ajax.

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IIS 7 and Rapid Fail Protection
December 19, 2006 @ 11:12 pm

IIS 7 has a new default feature called Rapid Fail Protection which detects failures and if too many failures occur in a specified period shuts down an Application Pool. Useful feature, but a little unexpected if you don't know about it and are wondering why your Application Pool has just shut down and won't restart automatically.

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DataTable/Set/Row support is back in MS Ajax RC
December 19, 2006 @ 4:23 am

Here are a couple of simple examples of how you can pass data between the server and client and back with MS Ajax using Web Services.

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Updated to MS Ajax RC
December 19, 2006 @ 3:44 am

I've moved my samples from MS Ajax Beta to the RC and the process was pretty straight forward. A few small hiccups due to naming changes from Microsoft, but overall fairly straight forward. Hopefully there won't be any more breaking changes before release.

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Visual Studio 2005 IntelliSense in ASP.NET pages issue resolved...
December 18, 2006 @ 2:58 pm

I've been fighting with Visual Studio 2005 and Intellisense in ASP.NET pages for some time. As it turns out that

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ScriptManager and Resource Compression
December 18, 2006 @ 5:14 am

The MS Ajax ScriptManager can automatically compress script files when using RegisterClientScriptResource. Unfortunately it only works when a script manager instance sits on a form even though the ScriptManager method is static.

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UpdatePanels and ClientScript in custom Controls
December 12, 2006 @ 4:03 am

Due to changes in the MS Ajax Beta custom controls need to deal with the ClientScript object a bit differently if the control wants to be compatible with the MS Ajax UpdatePanel. It requires using the ScriptManager when available or using ClientScript when not.

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Cruel Humor
December 12, 2006 @ 1:50 am

Outlook doesn't like me much - it keeps reminding me of my birthday day and day again. I can't seem to get rid of the 'appointment'.

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Getting tripped by Absolute Positioning in custom Controls
December 11, 2006 @ 1:54 am

I ran into an issue today with a control that wasn't properly working in the designer when absolute positioning is used and the control couldn't be dragged around the designer surface.

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When all else fails...
December 06, 2006 @ 4:28 am

Get out, get away, go surfing...

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503 Service Unavailable in IIS 7 - watch those Application Pools
December 04, 2006 @ 11:12 pm

I ran into a funky issue with an application on IIS 7 today on my development machine: One of my Web applications simply would not respond to requests and IIS was reporting a 503 Error – Service Unavailable. Oddly enough though the rest of my Web site was working just fine – just this one...

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Ripped by the Ribbon: Finding the Apply Template option in Word
December 03, 2006 @ 1:43 pm

I'm trying to find the Apply Template option to an existing open document and Word 2007.

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Expression Web Designer – no MSDN for you!
December 02, 2006 @ 4:12 pm

Looks like Expression Web Designer will not be available to developers on MSDN subscriber downloads. For some boneheaded reason Microsoft decided to not even try to get this tool into the hands of as many people as possible and hopefully push it through word of mouth... not gonna happen now.

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Over the hill...
December 01, 2006 @ 4:57 am

I'm turning 4.0.

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