Thanks to everyone who came out to my session on Convention-over-Configuration on the Web at TechDays Calgary 2010. I enjoyed sharing my ideas about convention-over-configuration and how it can simplify software development. You expend some serious brain power over figuring out how to enable your application-specific conventions, but everything after that flows easily and without […]
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DevTeach is heading back to Toronto in a few weeks (March 8-12, 2010)and you’ll get a bigger dose of awesome than ever before. We’ve got a fantastic line-up of top-notch, internationally renowned speakers. 6 tracks covering Agile, Web, Windows, Silverlight, Architecture, and SharePoint. A metric ton of sessions. (I’m both the Agile and Web Track […]
A few months back, I announced that I was doing a series of articles for MSDN Magazine on improving a “classic” ASP.NET application with modern tooling and frameworks. As an application, I chose ScrewTurn Wiki 3.0 to use as my example throughout. The first article, Extreme ASP.NET Makeover – Getting Your House in Order, went […]
I don’t have to remind everyone that we’re in the middle of a world-wide economic depression downturn. When the economy is good, it is hard enough to convince your boss to re-build an application from scratch. When the economy is bad, it is bloody near impossible. In the coming months (and potentially years), I expect […]
You upload an Office 2007 file (pptx, xlsx, docx, etc.) to your IIS6 web server and someone tries to download it, but receives: HTTP Error 404 – File or directory not found. Internet Information Services (IIS) The file is on the server. The URL is correct. You can even download ppt, doc, xls, zip, and […]
I was recently asked how to configure a site to redirect automatically from HTTP to HTTPS. By this I mean when the user types in http://server.example.com/app/page.aspx,* the browser will automatically redirect to https://server.example.com/app/page.aspx. You can do it through code, but with a little ingenuity, you can do it strictly through IIS configuration. Let’s walk through the setup… […]
If you’ve developed on a web application of any degree of complexity, you’ve encountered times when you would like to politely take the site offline or make it unavailable to some users. ASP.NET 2.0 introduced a nifty new feature the App_Offline.htm file. If ASP.NET detects this file in your vroot, it drains the request queue, […]
For our first event, the Calgary Code Camp was a huge success, if I do say so myself. We had over 80 developers attend and both tracks were constantly buzzing with great discussions. Thanks to everyone who presented for generously sharing their time and knowledge! Thanks also to everyone who attended and made the day […]
In the previous two parts (Part 1 and Part 2), I introduced the ImpostorHttpModule as a way to test intranet applications that use role-based security without having to modify your group memberships. (I’ll assume that you know what I’m talking about. If not, go back and re-read the first two parts.) In the final part, […]
In our last cliff-hanger episode, I introduced the ImpostorHttpModule. I’m going to show how you can use it to implement and test a sitemap and navigation menu in ASP.NET. We’ll use the new ASP.NET 2.0 Master Pages feature because it’s the easiest way to ensure that the same menu ends up on every page. We’ll […]
