I just downloaded the shiny new Visual Studio 11 BETA and haven’t had so much time to use it yet. But one thing I was curious about was the new built-in dark theme they provided. I liked the Dark Theme for the code editing windows but not so much for the rest of the UI. I solved
I have used Visual Studio 11 since it was released in beta and I must say I like it. I wanted to write down my favorite features here both to remind myself about them and to maybe give any of you random readers some tips. HTML Editor / ASP.Net You can now generate a event handler directly
I recently decided to try out my friend Sajals new CDN service over at Turbobytes. While setting this up he pointed out some issues I had with my custom origin domain that I run on IIS. IIS has some problems that many CDN doesn’t like. The “Via” Header To begin with, many CDNs send a “Via” header
We run a community site on ASP.NET Webforms that also has a blog based on WordPress. For a couple of years now we have loaded the data from WordPress to the ASP.NET site via WordPress RSS Feeds but we have had issues with this for a long time. Some days ago I decided to just
For various reasons, I have a really weird build setup in Visual Studio. I just want to write this post so I can remember how it works now if I ever re-install my computer and something doesn’t work. I use the regular publish feature in Visual Studio and deploy the code to a Website on my local
I was fixing some bugs in my application today and ran into a tricky bug. My application is based on Webforms but I use a lot of jQuery and other more modern technologies. In one place I have an upload form that is dynamically populated with jQuery templates. Since i create all my <input type”file”> with
I recently built some console apps to do some testing on my server. I wanted to be able to run the apps and get them to print info to the console. I also wanted it to log to a text file and to send e-mails to me. Log4net was the perfect tool to get this
You would guess that this would be a really easy task but it turns out this was pretty complicated. Basically, you need to create a scheduled task that gets triggered by an event and do some editing of that task in a notepad. I will just post my exported task here. Feel free to use
I know there is a lot of post about this already but I ran into some issues and had to collect some info from various places so I thought I might as well share my experience with the world. The goal is to be able to run Dropbox (or any other application that doesn’t have built-in support
I have been playing around with the awesome performance measuring tool New Relic lately and have been struggling with some performance issues that would have been hard to find without measuring the actual metrics from the real production server. Anyway, during the different changes, I made I changed the option runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests from “true” to “false” in Web. Config