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I was browsing a site earlier and I came upon the dreaded Yellow Screen of Death (YSOD). It reminded me of when I had to implement some diagnostic tracing for an application that happened to be …

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In certain forms, such as search forms, users enter a value into the search query box, then press the enter button. If you are develolping in ASP.NET, the page will refresh, but nothing will happen. …

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Web 2.0, the big hit. Its everywhere, everyone is doing it. Microsoft has made it very easy for us developers to implment some very cool features of AJAX through the ASP.NET Ajax.NET framework. Simply …

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I ran into an interesting error today and for a minute I didnt understand why it occurred. Exception c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET …

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If you're new to IIS 7 (you probably are) you might receive this nice little gem when you first start working with it: HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server ErrorDescription: The requested page cannot …

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(Download Excel Spreadsheet example at the bottom.) Sometimes when developing I need to work with data. Sometimes this data is from external sources such as other partners in the business. …

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