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If I didn’t want to over-use the exclamation point I would have added it to the post title, cause this is pretty big. Sueetie now natively supports multiple blogs and all that that implies behind the scenes. We know Sueetie can support multiple blogs, but now we have the ability to create multiple blogs and easily display them, as well as an aggregate display of all site blog posts. Enough talk, here’s the new Sueetie Site Blogs page. There are three blogs on the site displayed at the top of the... [read more]

FastCGI module in IIS 7.0 has been lacking some of the features and bug fixes that are available in IIS 7.5 FastCGI module and in FastCGI Extension 1.5 on IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0. The reason why this happened are explained in the post about FastCGI Module: Differences across IIS versions . This week IIS team has released an update for FastCGI module in IIS 7.0 that closes this remaining feature gap and ensures that FastCGI functionality is consistent across all versions of IIS. The update can be dow... [read more]

[In addition to blogging, I am also using Twitter. Follow me: @matthawley ] Another extension point with WikiPlex is Scope Augmenters. Scope Augmenters allow you to post process the collection of scopes to further augment, or insert/remove, new scopes prior to being rendered. WikiPlex comes with 3 out-of-the-box Scope Augmenters that it uses for indentation, tables, and lists. For reference, I'll be explaining… ( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Still working on getting a TeamCity build working ( see my last post ).  Latest exception is: C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\TeamData\Microsoft.Data.Schema.SqlTasks.targets(120, 5): error MSB4018: The "SqlDeployTask" task failed unexpectedly. System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Microsoft.Data.Schema.Common.ConnectionStringPersistence.ExtractPassword(String partialConnection, String dbProvider) at Microsoft.D... [read more]

Setting up a TeamCity build and got this error: C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\TeamData\Microsoft.Data.Schema.SqlTasks.targets(80, 5): error MSB4018: The "SqlSetupDeployTask" task failed unexpectedly. System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'Microsoft.Build.Framework.BuildEventContext' from assembly 'Microsoft.Build.Framework, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'. at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.TaskExecutionModul... [read more]

.NET is now more than eight years old, and some of its APIs got old with more grace than others. System.IO in particular has always been a little awkward. It’s mostly static method calls ( Path.* , Directory.* , etc.) and some stateful classes ( DirectoryInfo , FileInfo ). In these APIs, paths are plain strings. Since .NET v1, lots of good things happened to C#: lambda expressions, extension methods, optional parameters to name just a few. Outside of .NET, other interesting things happened as we... [read more]

Today I had to flatten a jagged array .  In my case, it was a string[][] and I needed to make sure every single string contained in that jagged array was set to something (non-null and non-empty).  LINQ made the flattening very easy.  In fact, I ended up making a generic version that I could use to flatten any type of jagged array (assuming it's a T[][]): private static IEnumerable<T> Flatten<T>(IEnumerable<T[]> data) { return from r in data from c in r selec... [read more]

About once every couple of months I need to write a bit of code that does one thing if a particular string is found within an array of strings and something else if it is not ignoring differences in case . For whatever reason, I never seem to remember the code snippet to accomplish this, so after spending 10 minutes of research today I thought I'd write it down here in an effort to help commit it to memory or, at the very least, serve as a quick place to find the answer when the need arises ... [read more]

I recently made two contributions to the Agatha Project by Davy Brion over on Google Code, and one of the things I wanted to follow up with was a post showing examples and some, seemingly required tid bits.  The contributions which I made where: To support StructureMap To include REST (JSON and XML) support for the service contract The examples which I have made, I want to format them so they fit in with the current format of examples over on Agatha and hopefully create and submit a third p... [read more]

I traded up my crutches for a wheelchair today as our credit card came under heavy fire taking advantage of the strong Australian dollar and getting down to some serious shopping. My strong suspicion is that the only reason Shelley suggested the wheelchair was so that she would have someone to pile the boxes of [...] Read More......(read more)

Introduction In the following walkthrough we will step through the installation of Acquia Drupal using the Web Platform Installer.   Installation 1. Launch the Web Platform Installer either from IIS Manager or Start > All Programs > Microsoft Web Platform Installer. 2. Click the Web Applications  tab  and the select Acquia Drupal . Click Install.   3. On the license Screen the following dependencies will be picked up , or omitted if you already have the featu... [read more]

Recently I have seen forum posts regarding how to set up Tomcat 6 as Java Servlet/JSP container with IIS 7 as a web server. When I read trough the doc, it requires quite cumbersome steps required to configure. The basic idea is that we want to use IIS 7 as a native web server in front end and put Tomcat as application server to handle Servlet and JSP request in back end. The Servlet/JSP needs to run in JVM, which is not directly executable in native web server address apace. Other... [read more]

PlantUmlEditor is my new free open source UML designer project built using WPF and .NET 3.5. If you have used plantuml before, you know that you can quickly create sophisitcated UML diagrams without struggling with a designer. Especially those who use Visio to draw UML diagrams (God forbid!), you will be at heaven. This is a super fast way to get your diagrams up and ready for show. You can *write* UML diagrams in plain English, following a simple syntax and get diagrams generated on-the-fly. Th... [read more]

I often do development, testing or troubleshooting where I want to see all server variables available to a site.  For example, when using a reverse proxy for load balancing, SERVER_ADDR, HTTP_HOST and other variables can change. Whenever I run into that situation, I write out a simple script that displays all server variables.  I thought I would share it here. Create a file on your server called serversvariables.aspx, test.aspx or whatever you want to call it.  Place the following... [read more]

I often do development, testing or troubleshooting where I want to see all server variables available to a site.  For example, when using a reverse proxy for load balancing, SERVER_ADDR, HTTP_HOST and other variables can change. Whenever I run into Read More......(read more)

Introduction i am going to introduce here Style Links on Page with CSS using Jquery Background jQuery, a lightweight (only 19kb in size) JavaScript library has become my new best friend. Obviously I'm not alone since Microsoft is now distributing jQuery with Visual Studio (including jQuery intellisense). I have been working with jQuery and ASP.NET for a while now, I had to post data from a form asynchronously so as not to move the user from the current page. Sounds hard but in reality it’s q... [read more]

I had a long deep look inside the possible scenarios of the regular topics generation and found the only opportunity to be attractive enough ;)...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Just a quick post to share a link to last years videos for the Oredev developer conference http://oredev.org/video Here is my .net debugging presentation where I show off some windbg + new VS.NET features and apart from all the good developer content Read More......( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Continuing my series of posts about ASMX services and JSON, in this post I’m going to cover two common mistakes that plague the process of getting a project’s first ASMX ScriptService working: Installing System.Web.Extensions into the GAC and configuring your web.config. System.Web.Extensions (aka ASP.NET AJAX) The ability for ASMX services to return raw JSON is made possible [...] ### Originally posted at Encosia . If you're reading this elsewhere, come on over and see the original. ASMX Sc... [read more]

If you want to know what an assembly does, you can use Reflector to refactor the assembly and check the codes. If you want to know why binding assembly failed, you can use Assembly Binding Log Viewer to check it. Also you should set HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion\ForceLog registry value to 1 . When the assembly is used, you want to know what the assembly uses, you can use Process Explorer ....( read more ) Read More......(read more)

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to MvcContrib T4MVC page on CodePlex   A few weeks back, we announced (mostly on Twitter) that T4MVC was moving into the MvcContrib Codeplex project.  I didn’t say much about it at the time because there Read More......( read more ) Read More......(read more)

A friend of mine was having an issue getting the Web Platform Installer to work on his Windows Server 2008 R2 box. He said there was some sort of cert error and asked me to try https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=158722 on my local machine to see if I got the cert error. I tried it and I did get a cert error on Windows 7 64bit. I happened to notice that that url simply redirects to https://www.microsoft.com/web/webpi/2.0/WebProductList.xml . Out of curiosity I dropped to a command line and t... [read more]

This week in the blog series (Introduction to the series – here), let’s talk about Digest Authentication feature in IIS6 UI and compare it to IIS7.x UI. Digest Authentication feature in IIS6.0 Digest Authentication provides the same functionality as Basic Authentication, except that it provides a way to ensure the username and password are not send as plain text over the network. Digest Authentication sends credentials using MD5 hash, the username and password cannot be deciphered from these h... [read more]

Two weeks ago I was in Iceland, talking about SharePoint 2010 at TM Software ( some photos here :-) ). During the course, some students showed me a pretty cool public SharePoint 2007 site that they have been working on: OneResponse ( http://oneresponse.info ). OneResponse is the site the United Nations uses to collaborate and share information during catastrophes such as the recent earthquake in Haiti. Besides of the fact that the site is implemented really well, it must be pretty cool to know t... [read more]

In general, a 500.19 error happens due to invalid configuration data. The IIS configuration system will almost always point to the source of the problem. At the same time, sometimes it is important to examine the “Error Code” field which symbolizes the cause of problem. Here’s an example of how a 500.19 error appears on an IIS 7.0 server: Let’s talk about some of the causes for 500.19 errors. We will use the ERR.exe tool for looking up the associated error codes (MSDN says it's for Exchange erro... [read more]