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Microsoft Download Center RSS Feed

January 20, 2003 Comment on this post [0] Posted in Web Services | ASP.NET | Bugs | Tools
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Useful RSS feed. Just a quick note to mention a new RSS feed that some of you might like to subscribe to: the folks over at ThunderMain Ltd have started preparing a feed of the Microsoft Download Center files.  Always nice to be able to stop visiting a Web site when all I want to know is whether there's anything new. [Larkware News]

Fantastically useful...I love this kind of data aggregation.  Lately we've been adding RSS feeds for anything and everything that is useful....Bug Reports, Product Updates, News within our Vertical (eFinance), etc.  Aggregating via RSS (and with a glorious tool such as NewsGator) is a much more compelling model than the promises of Digital Dashboards of the late 90s.  I was all over the Digital Dashboard as a concept, but the UI needed work and the aggregated data needed structure.  With RSS and NewsGator, I have both.  Using ASP.NET, aggresive use of the @Page Caching attribute and about 20 minutes and I can RSS just about anything. Woohoo!

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Detailing Failed Assembly Loads with the Assembly Binding Log Viewer ("The Fusion Logger")

January 20, 2003 Comment on this post [0] Posted in Web Services | Bugs | Tools
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Fuslogvw.exe is included with the Windows .NET Framework and reports how the CLR is loading your assembly and its dependencies (certainly useful for debugging version redirects etc.). By default it logs only failures but to log successful loads just change the registry key at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion\ForceLog  to 1.

For more info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cptools/html/cpgrffusionlogviewerfuslogvwexe.asp

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Resources to Troubleshoot ASP.NET Debugging

January 20, 2003 Comment on this post [1] Posted in Web Services | ASP.NET | Bugs
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Q316726 – HOWTO:  Debug an ASP.NET Web Application
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q316726
A walkthrough of debugging and enabling trace features on an ASP.NET application

Q306172 – INFO:  Common Errors When You Debug ASP.NET Applications in Visual Studio .NET
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q306172
A list of common errors and solutions for debugging ASP.NET applications

Q306005 – HOWTO:  Repair IIS Mappings After You Remove and Reinstall IIS
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q306005
If you lose or corrupt the application mappings for ASP.NET applications in IIS, this is how to put them back.

Q301058 – HOW TO: Debug an ASP.NET Application with the Microsoft CLR Debugger
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301058
This article describes how to configure your ASP.NET application for debugging, how to attach to the ASP.NET worker process (Aspnet_wp.exe) with the Microsoft CLR Debugger, and how to debug the application.

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What the heck is this for?

January 19, 2003 Comment on this post [0] Posted in Musings
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This isn't .NET related, programming related, but it's weird.  I post here for myself so I can look back on this stuff and find out what I found interesting, odd, worth noting, etc.  So, what the heck would I need with this? http://www.oakley.com/ostore/accessories/medusa/

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Bryan Bell is a CSS GOD

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Bryan Bell is a CSS GOD

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