Obscure problem You have a web application that uses Forms Authentication The code has been working fine for months if not years because it’s boiler […]
Could not load file or assembly System.Web.WebPages.Deployment
I encountered this problem when moving from an old machine to a new machine. I vaguely recall having this problem once before, but it was […]
WebForms UnobtrusiveValidationMode requires a ScriptResourceMapping for ‘jquery’. Please add a ScriptResourceMapping named jquery(case-sensitive)
Problem You finished work yesterday, go home and come into the office today only to find out that the web app has certain pages that […]
ASPCONFIG: Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.
Problem While publishing a web application you get a puzzling error that reads like the following in the output window: 1>C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_compiler.exe -v \ -p C:\Dev\WebApp\obj\Release\AspnetCompileMerge\Source […]
Service Unavailable: HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. – Your Application + SSRS + Reports folder = obscure mess
Introduction Wow… another error message that tells you NOTHING! This error message reads: Service Unavailable: HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable. I need to […]
Simple Class Creator and DTO Generator
What? A long time ago back around the middle and towards the end of 2012 I decided to create a console application that would help […]
Get Authorized Roles from Web.Config
Introduction To avoid hard coding the names of AD Groups, it is best to just pull them from a place where they already exist. They usually exist […]
Work Around to Opening up a Local Folder from an HTML Link
Introduction (solution below) In general in web programming at one point you may need to or be asked to open up a local folder from […]
Worst Visual Studio 2010 Bug I Have Ever Seen
The Background This bug was so bad I had to post about it. This is by far the WORST Visual Studio 2010 (VS2010, VS) bug […]
Simple Class Creator Published on Google Code
05/25/2014 UPDATE: I moved the code to a different project. I have made a number of changes since 2012. 11/14/2015 UPDATE: I moved my whole […]