Edit and Continue in Visual Studio 2005: joys and problems
So I happen to love edit & continue in C# with Visual Studio 2005. There are people who say it encourages sloppy programming (which is true), but for me, there […]
Continue ReadingUsing passwordFormat with ASP.NET Membership
ASP.NET 2.0’s new membership provider allows for three different ways to protect user’s passwords via the passwordFormat attribute: Clear: passwords are stored in clear text. Fine for non-sensitive applications. Encrypted: […]
Continue ReadingNewer machineKey program
I made some updates to the machineKey generation program I mentioned in my machineKey generation post. It now returns a complete machineKey tag for ASP.NET 1.1 or 2.0 that you can […]
Continue Reading"Visual Studio .NET has detected Web server is not running ASP.NET 1.1" or Unexpected Error when starting a web on your development machine
If you’re getting the above error when loading your Visual Studio project, you should first ensure that the web server on your PC is running. Then confirm that .NET is […]
Continue ReadingInvalid_Viewstate or "Unable to validate data" error
On one of my projects, the client noted getting occasional errors when filling out forms. The errors were something like “Unable to validate data” or HttpException: Invalid_Viewstate. After some research, […]
Continue ReadingMySQL Data Imports with C#
One of my current projects involves creating a data warehouse from multiple datafeeds. For cost reasons we’re going with MySQL Community Edition, but we’re sticking with ASP.NET, C#, and Windows on […]
Continue ReadingSourcegear's Vault is a compelling Visual Source Safe alternative
Sourcegear has an SCM solution called Vault that has a few big things going for it as a VSS alternative: You can import VSS projects It can work alongside VSS, […]
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