This is my third post with this title. What started as quick command line fix has grown into something huge, including top numbers of hits and comments here on Codebetter. So it's worth continuing. An asp.net 1.1 installation on IIS can get broken resulting in the error message in the title. When you're lucky a fix can be done in a couple of...

Mobile apps make great consumers for a webservice. But debugging such a scenario can be hard to set up. I lost some hair in getting it to work right; but in the end it was simple. There are loads and loads of good manuals how to setup your device, this one on Akhune's blog tells all, up to connecting to the internet from the emulator. All...

Over the last days I've been working with the .NET 3.0 framework (or whatever you want to call it). Starting from the perspective of a real world application, not a bunch of cool solutions looking for a problem. The idea was to create a WPF tablet PC inking app which stores and retrieves images through a WCF webservice. It worked out pretty...

In a recent post I described the trouble an asp.net 1.1 application has with a web.config file targeted at asp.net 2.0. The main problem is that the asp.net 1.1. runtime does not understand parts of the 2.0 web.config and crashes. My first solution was to move settings to the global 2.0 config. In a brilliant comment Joshua Flanagan suggested...

When an asp.net application is started it processes the web.config file. Doing so it is combined with with all web.config files found up in the tree of virtual directories. Suppose you have a website located at www.YourSite.com/NiceWebApp/ and some supporting webservices like www.YourSite.com/NiceWebApp/Services/NiceService.asmx. When the...

Another story from the app with the sprocs. That was a classical 2-tier CS application which we transformed into an asp.net 1.1 app. Once a year the application has to copy and transform huge amounts of data. This is done by running a batch of stored procedures which run in one huge transaction after which the database is ready for the next...

In a nice post on the announced retirement of Bill Gates John was asking how Bill Gates had impacted our lives. During my studies I had the opportunity to work with real computers and got totally addicted. When I finished in 1984 my access to these wonderful machines stopped. There were home computers but none of them were serious enough to do...

In some cases it can take quite some for the web server to complete your webpage. Setting a time out is not that difficult but Googling around you will either find over complicated scenarios or a very simple and clear story in Dutch. Before recapitulating that one in English I have to credit the author Michiel van Otegem. Besides writing some...

Almost everybody wanted to say something on the .NET 3 moniker. From FUD like the return of DLL-hell. To the notion that whatever poetic or dull name a piece of software had to live under, it's all just another target for your C#/VB.NET/<your favorite language here> code.  The only one thing which really worries me is the...

Today was a special day. It would have been my dad's 77th birthday. He didn't even live to celebrate his 70th. As a technical engineer, specialized in thin layers, he worked for Philips. His first main project concerned the inner coating of CRT tubes, his second was taking part in the development of discs for optical storage. The first is...

Working  a lot with a computer has a couple of health risks, which get bigger and bigger over the years. There are several ways to fight this: Just get away from your screen and do something else. Switch pointing devices to prevent RSI Get a lot of screen real estate and fill it with big text to make it easy on your eyes Big text has imho...

In two previous post I described my first steps in setting up my own internet server. Part 1 described choosing the hardware and orchestrating all network traffic bound for the internet. Part 2 described setting up Active Directory as a central hub of configuration To conclude this story will focus on handling incoming traffic, which is after...

I'm in the process of handling all my own email. Today I switched and just wish I had known in advance of all the hurdles. Going to be great blog fodder when it's all ironed out. In case you can't reach me this address does work: Peter@PetersGekko.net It's also the updated website with an improved publications index. Share this post: Email it!...

Last week another rant on stored procs in databases passed by. A lot on it has been said over and over again but still I would like to add my 2 eurocents. Recently I inherited a database which contained a lot of sprocs and other coded logic. So I was forced into some more real world experience. The thing I would like to state in advance is:...

That's what my, 7 year old and gadget freak, son Cas shouted to me last weekend. It would have made sense in case we had a media center, but  the failing device is an old featureless creature; FI to switch from DVD to video requires changing cables. It got weirder when the only remedy to get it working again was much like a cold reboot:...