When I try to edit some of my Macros I get this nice little message:
Microsoft Visual Studio Macros: An Add-In has caused an access violation while sinking on ‘ProjectAdded’.
Google turns up nothing on this guy.
Does anyone out there have any idea how to fix this?
I recently ran into an interesting problem… my webservice application seemed unable to read info from the web.config file.
I tried adding some invalid < marks to the config file and the app still ran w/o any error (but still wouldn’t read the web.config appSettings or connectionString sections).
So I created another IIS application and it worked as expected.
So I deleted the troubled IIS App and recreated it. Still broken!
The solution was to clear out the ASP.NET Temporarly Files folder in c:windows……
Once that was gone, and I restarted IIS, everything went back to normal.
You’ve probably seen this one.
Whenever you do one of the following:
Response.End()
Response.Redirect("page.aspx")
Server.Transfer("page.aspx")
You end up with a ThreadAbortException, “Thread was being aborted”.
I had previously dealt with this by swallowing the ThreadAbortException, which of course isn’t a great method, but it worked.
Well today I came across a better way for all of these.
| Replace This | With This |
|---|---|
| Response.End | HttpContext.Current.ApplicationInstance.CompleteRequest |
| Response.Redirect(“page.aspx”) | Response.Redirect(“page.aspx”,false) |
| Server.Transfer(“page.aspx”) | Server.Execute(“page.aspx”) |
I have been wanting to try a dark theme for vs.net, but I couldn’t quit find one I liked.
So I took bits from here and from Scott Hanselman and created my own.
Take a look at some screen shots, and you can download the settings file at the bottom.
Here is my settings file:
Dark-Theme.vssettings (32.85 KB)
If you like this, please leave a comment! Thanks.
In a recent gathering of the ALT.NET group, ScottGu gave a demo of the upcoming MVC framework for asp.net.
The article (and video) can be found here.
Lots of people in the ALT community have been working with asp.net and MVC by using one of the OS frameworks out there like Monorail, but I am glad to see that MS is not sitting around waiting on this issue.
Hopefully this will make testing even easier.
This article from MSDN shows just about every type of format string you can use on a date:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az4se3k1.aspx
Recently I ran into a problem where browsing to a newly installed web app produced a bunch of javascript errors. Stuff like: “‘Type’ is not defined” and “‘Sys’ is not defined”.
After debugging it for a while, I found the problem to be that URLScan had been installed on the server (Windows 2000 Server), which was preventing any requests with dots in the folder name.
URL Scan is a tool that MS suggested everyone install a while back that acts to filter out many malicious attacks.
So, with the default settings any request for a file inside the scriptsSystem.Web.Extensions folder would be denied as a 404 b/c of URL Scan.
To fix this, you need to edit the UrlScan.ini file, located in %WINDIR%System32InetsrvURLscan. Near the top of the file, change AllowDotInPath from 0 to 1.
The run iisreset to restart IIS and you should be ok!
More info on URLScan is available here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326444
Reflector is the one I have been using lately.
It runs well, and has a nice interface.
I recently ran into some seemingly strange behavior as I was testing a couple windows services I had written.
In my case, I had a test harness program that was referencing the service (an exe) but this could also apply to references to dlls if you are using the projects application settings (My.Settings.Whatever in VB.Net).
After figuring it out, it all makes sense.
When you create an application setting by providing a value in the project’s “Settings” tab, the value is written out into a special <applicationSettings> block in your config file.
But, in order to make those values accessible via a strongly typed/intellisense method, a class is created to wrap those values. The class is in the Settings.vb file that is generated when you first add an application setting to your project.
But there is one more interesting thing to note: If the settings class doesn’t find the item it expects in the config file, it will return the last supplied value by default.
So what this means is that if create an application setting for XYZ for the value “123” and then change the app.config file directly to change the “123” to “abc”, then “abc” will be returned when you run the program. However, if you were to then alter the config file to remove or rename the XYZ item, then your application would return “123” again when it ran.
Also, if you directly modify the config file, and then try to edit the projects applications settings, it will alert you to the fact that some values have changed, and ask if you want to use the updated values from the config file. If you say yes, it will overwrite the Settings.vb file to use the new values that you had supplied in the config file.
So, I was referencing a project that used these settings, but when I would update the config file, those updated settings were not seen. All I had to do was go into the project settings tab, allow it to refresh the Settings.vb file, and rebuild the project.
I just opened VS to do something in TFS Source Control Explorer only to find that all my controls were disabled and right clicking on anything only showed “No Commands Available.”
Turns out that this was because I had to change my default source control plugin to VSS for a project I was working on. If you go to Tools->Options->Source Control and select TFS as the default SCC plugin, it will fix the problem.
Chris May 