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Just updated my work laptop to Windows 7. Sweet right? Except now the fun of getting everything to work.
First issue I ran into, a Web App in development, not being able to load up “Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient” because it was looking for version “9.0.242.0″ – the version you get with Office 2007, SQL 2005. But I have [...]

A few months ago I decided to consolidate my hosting and sites to one server, and I went to Server Beach, and got my own Windows 2003 server. I needed ASP.net and PHP for some things I had so it was kind of a unique situation.
Server Beach is awesome, and if I needed more [...]

At my new gig, I am working on a project that is ASP.NET with an Oracle Database backend. Today I ran into an error.
Data provider internal error(-3000) [System.String]
What does this error mean? Heck if I know, its a generic error basically telling you that something is wrong with your connection to the database more than [...]

Not sure if this is the best way to do this, but this is what I do. Say you want to auto submit a form on an aspx page. You can call document.formname.submit(); from the body onLoad event and it will submit, but ASP.net will automatically post it back to itself.
I tried added buttons [...]

Sometimes you want to grab a file posted to a page, maybe an image upload or other file upload
HttpFileCollection logFiles = Request.Files;
string path = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["LogPath"];
if (logFiles.Count > 0)
{
HttpPostedFile logFile = logFiles.Get(0);
logFile.SaveAs(path + System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString() + “.log”);
}
As you can see, I am setting the log path from the config. The reason for this is, the path to [...]

ScaleOut Software has a product to manage sessions on a web farm. I have tried this product and have had nothing but issues. I did actually end up getting it working once, but it turns out, even when it does work correctly, it gives your network problems

It seems that the fix for any issue is [...]

been searching for a while on how to test HttpContext and Cache in VS2005 Unit Tests, using the built in unit testing suite. Found this today..just add
TextWriter tw = new StringWriter();
HttpWorkerRequest wr = new SimpleWorkerRequest(“/webapp”, “c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\webapp\\”, “default.aspx”, “”, tw);
HttpContext.Current = new HttpContext(wr);
to you test method and the correct “using” statements, and boom – it works [...]

Sounds like some dating gameshow, where you are of the winner..and the date you get is someone you just aren’t sure of. Anyways, if you see this error in VS2005 (asp.net), what I have seen it means is: you have some control variables decalred in your codebehind file, and they are also declared in the [...]

What a PITA. If you want to store an object in the viewstate in ASP.net you need to make sure it is marked as Serializable. Not only that, you need to make sure that every class that it uses is marked as serializable.
There are some scenarios that you don’t have to thought: if you store [...]