Archive for the 'ASP.NET' Category

VS.NET 2005 Projects Take Two Steps Back

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

Like good little microsoft junkies, we’ve been transitioning all of our development to .NET 2005, including using their new flagship IDE, VS.NET 2005. In our initial transition, we ran into huge headaches trying to import our old ASP.NET projects, particularly when heavily divided into namespaces. We eventually sorted all of these things out, […]

Sharing Cookieless Sessions Between Multiple Applications in ASP.NET

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

I figured out how to share cookieless session data accross ASP.NET applications today. Here’s a little background:
I’ve got a big client that is basically an umbrella for a number of different projects. Even though all of these projects are more or less seperate, their users are mostly the same. At one point, […]

How To Raise a “File Download” Dialog Box for a Known MIME Type

Friday, December 30th, 2005

We’ve got a project where we need to send a text file export to the user. Since it’s all stored in the database, the simplest way is just to dump the data from the page. Unfortunately, if it’s a knowe MIME type, like a text file or pdf, teh browser opens it internally. […]

Visual Studio .NET Version Error

Friday, December 30th, 2005

Sometimes (who am I kidding, most of the time) when we install a new VS.NET instance on a dev box, we get this error:
Visual Studio .NET has detected that the specified Web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1. You will be unable to run ASP.NET Web applications or services.
The proper way to solve this […]

Asp.net: Broken Images And CSS When Using Cookieless Sessions

Friday, December 16th, 2005

We pushed an ASP.NET project up to our staging server the other day, and saw the strangest thing. The application worked perfectly fine, except it wasn’t picking up the CSS or any of the images. My first inclination was that we were using absolute URLs, but verified that they were in fact relative.
The […]