ASP.NET Debugging

Debugging from an ASP.NET and Azure Engineer. Posts are from customer issues and things I feel may be useful.

Understanding How You Use This Blog

Ed Jolly has asked me to post this, and I’m happy to oblige: Greetings Blog Readers, My name is Ed...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/22/2008

Known issues for ASP.NET with .NET 3.5 SP1

Just wanted to give a heads up on two issues that we are aware of that were introduced with .NET 3.5...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/22/2008

SOS Feature Requests for the Future

I know I have asked a similar question in the past, but what I would like to know now is, without...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/21/2008

ASP.NET Tip: ASP.NET MSDN Site

Have you checked out the MSDN site for ASP.NET lately?  It is full of useful information. ...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/20/2008

ANSWER Logic Puzzle: What comes next?

Here is my answer to the puzzle that was posted here. Count the number of occurrences of a...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/19/2008

Hyper-V and Visual Studio 2008 SP1

So I wanted to post a little bit about my adventure with Visual Studio 2008 SP1.  I have a...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/19/2008

Logic Puzzle: What comes next?

What row of numbers comes next? 1 11 21 1211 111221 312211 13112221

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/18/2008

Comment Guidelines for this Blog

As the community participates in the ASP.NET Debugging blog, I want to offer some guidelines on how...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/15/2008

Common Issue: Permission problems when using remote content

We have had a number of customers run into problems when trying to store their ASP.NET Content on a...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/15/2008

System.IndexOutOfRangeException on a webfarm

Here is another issue that a customer had that I thought would be helpful to others. Problem The...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/13/2008

ANSWER Logic Puzzle: Russian Roulette

Here is my answer to the puzzle that was posted here. Label the chambers {A,B,C,D,E,F}. Let chambers...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/12/2008

Update for viewstate issues

So a while ago I posted about how to fix the Validation of viewstate MAC failed error.  There...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/12/2008

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1

The next service pack is finally available.  If you are using .NET 3.5, or want to use any of...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/12/2008

Logic puzzle: Russian Roulette

Here is another logic puzzle, see what you think: You are tied to your chair and can't get up....

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/11/2008

Have you used or added to the ASP.NET Wiki?

Not sure how many people are starting to use our wiki, but it is a great resource where you can find...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/08/2008

Loading a control in a Login Control may give a NullReferenceException

If you try to use a Login Control and change the contents of the control when someone logs in, you...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/07/2008

Inserting a dynamic column into a DataGrid and sorting by it

We recently had a customer that wanted to sort a dynamic column in a DataGrid and so I thought it...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/06/2008

ANSWER Logic Puzzle: Buying donuts puzzle

Here is the answer to the question that was posted, here. There are a few ways to answer this, you...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/04/2008

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Hands-on Labs

Just wanted to pass along some really interesting labs that I came across the other day.  These...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/04/2008

ASP.NET Scaling Strategies

So there is a very good article that came out in the April 2008 issue of the MSDN Magazine, Scaling...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 08/01/2008

Logic Puzzle: Buying donuts puzzle

I thought it would be fun to try something new here.  So I am going to present a logic puzzle...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/31/2008

Live Mesh update

Not sure if everyone saw, but Microsoft has expanded the size of the Tech Preview for Live...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/30/2008

SOS: Commands not working on a mini-dump

Problem So occasionally I run into people trying to analyze a managed mini-dump and they have...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/28/2008

Hyper-V continued

Just wanted to give a brief update on using Hyper-V.  I can’t seem to find a reason to not use...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/25/2008

Do you think about supportability?

So I wanted to get a read on how people design their web sites.  My thinking is that there...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/24/2008

ASP.NET Tips: DumpAllExceptions output changes

The first time you run !DumpAllExceptions you will see it print out one full exception for each type...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/23/2008

ANSWER: POP QUIZ: What are Free Threads in the Threadpool

So I was hoping to get some more comments to this before posting the answer but I guess that isn’t...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/22/2008

Windows Home Server update

Monday morning the Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 update package and release notes went live on...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/22/2008

BLOG CHAT RECAP: SQL Injection

We had a good chat on Friday and I think we got most, if not all, of the questions answered in...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/21/2008

ASP.NET Tips: Loading a DLL out of the bin directory

Question A customer has created a web project which references a class library project.  When...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/21/2008

BLOG CHAT: SQL Injection – Today

Just a quick reminder that our blog chat on SQL Injection is today at 2:00 PM EST or 11:00 AM...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/18/2008

Terrarium anyone?

Not sure how many people remember the old Terrarium application, but it is making a comeback. ...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/18/2008

Software Applications, the targets of vulnerabilities

I was just reading Soma’s blog post How vulnerable are software applications? and it really makes...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/17/2008

Windows Internal Beta Exam 70-660

I wanted to pass along some really exciting news if you haven’t heard about it yet, we are getting...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/16/2008

What is more important – Design or Content

So I have often wondered about the priorities that are going into site design these days.  I...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/16/2008

Unable to use Session State Server

Issue ASP.NET site running under .NET 2.0 has the following setting in web.config: <sessionState...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/14/2008

BLOG CHAT: SQL Injection

So finally all the details have been worked out.  We are going to have this chat on Friday July...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/11/2008

Silverlight control samples for Beta 2

Shawn has updates the Silverlight Control tutorial for Beta 2.  Not only is this a good thing...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/11/2008

What would make troubleshooting easier

So I have asked How do you Troubleshoot ASP.NET problems- so now I would like to know what would you...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/10/2008

POP QUIZ: What are Free Threads in the Threadpool

So here is the next trivia question for everyone.  If you have tried to change the Threadpool...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/09/2008

Using .NET for Mobile Applications

Chris Craft has done a great job in getting a lot of people excited over using .NET for Mobile...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/09/2008

Migrating to Debugging .NET after Win32

One of the more difficult things about getting started with .NET Debugging is the mental shift that...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/08/2008

How do you Troubleshoot ASP.NET problems?

I’d love to hear how people go about digging into various problems.  I have heard of people...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/07/2008

Visual Studio 2008 Web Server Here shell extension

This has to be one of the coolest shell extensions that I have seen yet.  It is right up there...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/03/2008

SOS: Always use the correct debugger

I cannot stress this enough.  It is very important that you use the same architecture for the...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/02/2008

As first reported by Soma, we are now going to use the MSDN Code Gallery to make hotfixes...

Author: ASP.NET Debugging Date: 07/01/2008

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