Welcome to AspAdvice Sign in | Join | Help

July 2007 - Posts

Accessing Session from an HttpHandler

I've run into this before but forgotten about it. I wrote an HttpHandler recently and was trying to access the Session object from the passed in HttpContext context object with context.Session["foo"] = "bar"; and I encountered a NullReferenceException
Posted by ssmith | 5 Comments
Filed under:

Visual Studio Orcas Beta 2 WCF svcutil.exe Error

If you run into trouble using svcutil.exe with the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio / .NET FX, try this: sn-exe -Vr svcutil.exe It wasn't signed in this drop (it will surely be at RTM). Alternately I've been told you can copy the svcutil.exe file
Posted by ssmith | 3 Comments
Filed under: ,

Visual Studio and .NET Orcas Beta 2 Available

Start your downloads . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponsor
Posted by ssmith | 0 Comments

Fixed: CCNET + MSBUILD Logger Error

Ran into a snag this weekend with my build server - it started throwing errors related to the path to a folder, like this: .MSBUILD : error MSB4015: The build was aborted because the "MsBuildToCCNetLogger" logger failed unexpectedly during shutdown. System.ArgumentException:
Posted by ssmith | 4 Comments
Filed under: , , , ,

Microsoft Health Common User Interface

I recently heard about a set of controls that is being made freely available via CodePlex with the goal of improving the usability and consistency of medical software applications. The Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) includes a suite of rich

Wait for ASP.NET AJAX Book Finally Over

The wait for Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX is finally over. The folks who camped outside of bookstores all night to be the first ones to own these beauties were rewarded today. Shortages were reported in some parts of the country as mobs of excited .NET

Team Project Creation Failed TF30225

So, I get this error now every time I try to create a new Team Project. I've checked my SQL Reporting Services configuration and it's all Green. I'm creating this project as an administrator. I've searched for help online, of course, but
Posted by ssmith | 2 Comments
Filed under: ,

Small Business Developer Center

Soma announces the Small Business Developer Center on MSDN. One point he makes about small business solutions is: Good enough is really good enough which sounds familiar . This new resource is "focused on providing practical, actionable platform guidance

Some Outlook Relief Perhaps

I get a lot of email, like many people in our industry. A lot of it is SPAM, but it's rare that any of that makes it to my inbox between SpamBayes and server-side anti-spam stuff running at ORCSWeb (the best hosting company around, IMHO). Nonetheless,