Browse by Tags
All Tags »
.NET (
RSS)
When you’re debugging security related things, sometimes you need to take a look at the thread identities user token. When you’re inside of Visual Studio 2010 – in the watch windows you enter ‘$user’ and you’ll get the same as when in windbg with...
While the development server in Visual Studio 2010 is great for most work, it does have 1 shortcoming in that if you start adding content types that are not part of the base set of known Mime types built in, you won’t affect the proper header response...
I wanted an ability to be able to simply time methods and write to a log/trace sink and a very simple approach that I ended up using was to provide a method that takes an Action delegate which would be the method that is to be timed. The following is...
Once in a while a good tool that I find out about that helps me developing solutions comes in real handy. MiniProfiler is one of those tools. Developed by the StackOverflow folks it’s available in source or binary, and NuGet packages Take a look...
So, as one of the OneTAP leads for Windows Azure focusing on the BizSpark folks, I run into many questions regarding HOWTO and in areas of Auto-Scaling, provisioning, authentication. The folks at Full Scale 180 ( http://www.fullscale180.com ) have created...
Reflector has been invaluable over the years. I’m torn about the idea it’s become a paid for tool, and by all means folks should be compensated for great work. Not sure where Lutz is in the cash flow. But, the ICSharpCode guys have released...
With the updates to Windows Azure CDN announced this week [ 1 ] I wanted to help illustrate the capability with a working sample that will serve up dynamic content from an ASP.NET site hosted in a WebRole. First, to get a good overview of the capability...
Along with the release of WebMatrix announced here.. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webplatform/archive/2011/01/12/webmatrix-shipping-january-13-2011.aspx A slew of dependencies were released as well. If you download WebMatrix, it will install these dependencies...
There’s no doubt that certificate management, when you haven’t futzed with it for some time, is a fun time… Raffaele Rialdi has the start of what looks like a promising tool to help manage the process of managing and deploying certificates for services...
I spent way too many hours on this one. I was going through full configuration of ADFS v2 with WCF active client scenarios and using self generated certificates, had all things lined up perfectly. Using the certificate snap in I just copied the...
How many of us cut our teeth with a Petzold book on Windows? Gee, I still have an OS/2 book on Presentation Manager from Mr. Petzold – pre-warp. Well, MS Press has released his latest book in XPS/PDF form, along with the samples up on the MS Press...
Many times, especially during development, you could have certificates that are out of date, aren’t singed by any real authority (makecert, etc.), or even don’t match the host name that the request is issued against, but you want to test, etc. One example...
Make sure, for today at least, you navigate to “Downloads” instead of using the quick link on the right side. Summary This document is a collection of items from public blog sites, Microsoft® internal discussion aliases (sanitized) and experiences from...
WebMatrix is back – sort of. There used to be Web Matrix in the early days of ASP.NET. Now, it’s back again, and it’s ready with some of the upcoming preview capabilities coming out – such as a view engine called Razor. ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview...
The question came up today if we could use an “app_offline.htm” file along with HTML in that file that would reference images. First, I wasn’t 100% sure if the app_offline.htm would work, but it sure did. Since it’s just the Asp.net hosting process...
More Posts
Next page »