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There's is some good news on the web front. Microsoft will be including JQuery in ASP.NET, there is even going to be intellisense support for this great library. Microsoft will be posting an update to visual studio with the intellisense support in just a few weeks. For those of you who don't know JQuery: It's a library that allows you to query ...

Running ASP.NET websites from the GAC was always something I wanted to try out, because with 40 websites running exactly the same code there must be a better way to deploy them. So last week I tried it out and to my surprise it worked right away. Here’s how to do it with your own websites Step 1: Sign the website assembly Before you can place ...

Paul Roberts wrote a nice article [1] about using the CCR (Concurrency and Coordination Runtime) together with ASP.NET, to start multiple task concurrently. The CCR will handle the thread pool for us. The CCR is now still a part of Robotics Studio, but there are some rumors this will be part of the .Net Framework. After implementing some helper ...

Yesterday Microsoft released a set of hotfixes for visual studio 2008 to solve some critical performance issues when editing ASP.NET. Personally I had some huge issues with the performance in Visual Studio 2005 and I expected the problems to be solved in Visual Studio 2008. I'm glad they finally solved those :) Download can be found ...

Hosting WCF services under IIS 7.0 in Windows Vista can be a complete nightmare, at least if you're not aware of some of the pittfalls that you might run into. I tried hosting a simple svc file an got a HTTP--500 error showing me I the following error: svc-Integrated has a bad module "ManagedPipelineHandler". At first when ...

It's friday and I should be doing other stuff... However I'm working on my open source scheduling application again and this time doing some front-end implementation work. While I was building the basic layout of the website I noticed somethig weird when setting up authorization. I want users on my site to be authenticated before accessing any ...

In an ASP.NET 2.0 website created for a customer, I've run into a strange problem: the app-pool crashes every now and then. There's no errormessage in the eventlog and the logging-mechanism in the website doesn't get a chance to log the problem, because of the app-pool crash. All I could find were messages in the eventlog stating ...

The last weeks of my internship are here and Martijn and I are testing our application for bugs and errors that we missed before. One of the things that's important for us is the import functionality of our application. Unfortunatly ASP.NET and IIS decided otherwise as the following error illustrates.  The following exception was thrown ...

There's something odd going on inside the ASP.NET designer of visual studio 2005. When you first open the designer it normally starts in markup mode, all is fine. But as soon as I move over to the Graphical designer surface it starts eating up a lot of memory and it takes 5 minutes just to build the object tree in memory and display it. ...

For everyone who is waiting for the final version to write AJAX style web applications with ASP.NET 2.0,  the 1.0 version of ASP.NET AJAX is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ca9d90fa-e8c9-42e3-aa19-08e2c027f5d6&DisplayLang=en Also there are some more links in the downloadpage to the Toolkit, ...