August 11, 2011
This week I had to send my iMac in for repair. Normally I program using Windows Server 2008 running in Parallels. This week I had to go back to my old desktop PC to get my programming work done. I had to reinstall my development environment since I hadn’t programmed on that machine in a ...
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February 21, 2011
As it turns out, configuring SMTP for asp.net applications to send simple email messages in Windows Server 2008 is not exactly straight forward. I think Microsoft is focussed on organizations with exchange servers ready to go, and as a result they have left us web hosting types out in the cold. How disappointing! But alas, ...
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February 19, 2011
We often debug against w3wp.exe (the IIS worker process) when building web apps. Visual studio 2010 adds an annoying quirk though, a warning states: “Attaching to this process can potentially harm your computer. If the information below looks suspicious or your are unsure, do not attach to this process.” This pops up every time. How ...
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September 5, 2009
I’ve dealt with this one a few times. You get the .net error: Could not load file or assembly ‘MyAssembly, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ or one of its dependencies. The located assembly’s manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. So immediately you start moving DLL’s around, trying to find the one that’s out of date. ...
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