Flushing your A/C drain line with a custom made jig

Uh-oh! There is water everywhere and the A/C just shut off On occasion (especially when an A/C is working too hard) your drain line will get clogged, overflow your drip pan and spill all over the floo...

WCF Security: Requiring Authorization to lock down your Exposed Services

Introduction WCF Security is definitely not something that can be picked up easily. It isn’t plug and play or something that can simply be turned on or off; and it most definitely is not easy to...

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 a html link. This is something that used to work with older versions...

Why can’t I access the System.Web.HttpUtility Class?

I’ve run into this problem before and I didn’t realize it until right now that I never wrote down the solution, hence the post. The Problem So if you found yourself trying to use System.We...

WSE: Server unavailable, please try later

This is an amazing gotcha that had me almost throw my computer off the sixth floor of my building. First to narrow down the steps I took in order to determine what was actually wrong: I regenerated my...

WSE: You Cannot Return Custom Exceptions

I answered this on StackOverflow.com here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/138477/using-own-exceptions-in-wse-not-only-soapexception/9320072#9320072...

CS0246: The type or namespace name ‘NameHere’ could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

This is a fun problem I ran into, luckily I solved it rather quickly. The Setup I have a website setup in IIS7.5 running on a .Net 2.0 application pool and I just added a virtual directory to it so I ...

HTTP Error 404.2 – Not Found, Error Code 0x800704ec

HTTP Error 404.2 – Not Found The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the ISAPI and CGI Restriction list setting on the Web Server. Error Code 0x800704ec In order to fix this prob...

Can’t Run Web Application After Renaming Web Project

This solution applies to many problems, but this one in particular. If you get a yellow screen of death when trying to run a Web Application in IISx that you just renamed, then chances are you didn...

Adventures In Web Service and Remoting Server Craziness

I don’t think there are that many people out there that still have to deal with more than one .Net Framework, but I have to deal with 3 simultaneously constantly. That means I use 3 different ve...