Archive for .NET Programming

Visual Studio Environment Tips

August 11, 2011 No Comments

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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SMTP Configuration on Rackspace Cloud Servers, Windows

February 21, 2011 2 Comments

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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Visual Studio 2010 Attach Warning – w3wp.exe

February 19, 2011 No Comments

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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When you can’t seem to fix “The located assembly’s manifest definition does not match the assembly reference”

September 5, 2009 2 Comments

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 So immediately you start moving DLL’s around, trying to find the one that’s out of date.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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Are you backing up your data?

Most people know they should back up their data, but not everyone does. If you’re one of those people,...

5 Easy Choices For a Better Website.

Are you planning to design or redesign your website soon? If so, then here are a few tips that...

How to enable site maps in Waypoint

Sitemaps are simple XML files that Google and other search engines use to find the content in your website....

5 reasons you should learn how to use HTML

HTML is the backbone of everything online. Everyone should know how to read it and write it! OK, well...

How to Link Facebook to Twitter

Posting to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other social media sites is a great way to interact with your customers....

Visual Studio Environment Tips

This week I had to send my iMac in for repair. Normally I program using Windows Server 2008 running...

Fixing IIS7 Maximum Upload Size

If you have your Waypoint site hosted with Twin Harbor and you need to increase the maximum file upload...

What is an SSL Certificate?

You may have heard about SSL Certificates, also called secure certificates, or SSL Certs for short. But what are...

OSX Lion Removes Functionality

In my previous post I thought I had found a way to maintain some of the functionality that we...

Assign Applications to “Spaces” in OSX Lion

I was a happy user of Spaces in OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard. You could assign certain applications to certain...