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Silent passport authentication from web and load test in VSTT

  1. Open IE and clear all cookie cache. 2. Start fiddler. 3. Browse application in IE. 4. It will...

Date: 07/10/2009

Troubleshooting Web Application Performance

Every app is different and every server is different. It's only through extensive understanding of...

Date: 07/09/2009

Creating EVT & IVT's using VS 2005 Test Suite

So i am back after a long break. Just to give you a little bit of background i recently shifted from...

Date: 04/28/2007

Getting CryptographicException exception "Padding is invalid and cannot be removed" after Migrating to ASP.NET 2.0

Problem Description ============= One of my colleague migrated his asp.net 1.1 application to...

Date: 07/03/2006

ASP.NET 2.0 - Errors while re-directing user to an error page after the exception is thrown from COM Port

Abstract ======= There is an ASP.NET 2.0 application inside of which i connect to serial COM port by...

Date: 05/16/2006

Setting Server.ScriptTimeout programatically in ASP.NET not taking into effect

The reason behind it was that debug attribute was set to true inside web.config. If debug attribute...

Date: 05/08/2006

ASP.NET - Getting 0 value for Request/Sec and Total Req. in performance monitor

Things to check: - Check the following registry key...

Date: 04/02/2006

Why i am getting VBScript runtime (0x800A000D) Type mismatch: 'Session' on ASP page ?

There could be two reasons: - 1. Directory under which ASP page resides is not marked as an...

Date: 03/16/2006

Few Things to take care while designing custom Composite Controls

Abstract We can visualize composite control, the composition of existing controls that reuses the...

Date: 03/11/2006

Understanding Login Controls in ASP.NET 2.0

The link below explains what are the Login Controls and how they can be used against custom data...

Date: 03/10/2006

Understanding VirtualPathProviders in ASP.NET 2.0

To read more about virtual path providers, visit the following link:...

Date: 03/10/2006

Getting 'Webform_Postbackoptions is undefined’ errors in ASP.NET 2.0

Issue ==== I recently got an issue where customer ASP.NET 2.0 website on IIS and on one of the aspx...

Date: 02/01/2006

Intermittently Loosing Intellisense in the code behind editor inside visual studio .net

Issue ==== One of my colleagues was loosing intellisense in the code behind editor for a particular...

Date: 02/01/2006

Using Web Deployment Project in Visual Studio 2005

Issue ==== One of my colleague developed ASP.NET 2.0 application in Visual studio 2005. During the...

Date: 02/01/2006

HTTP_URL Server Variable behaves differently in IIS 5 and 6

Issue ==== One of my Customer’s configured an ASP file named NotFound.asp to process 404 errors...

Date: 02/01/2006

ASP.NET 2.0 - Cannot find control in EditItemTemplate of DetailsView Control

Recently we got some cases in ASP.NET 2.0, where customers were using: - - DetailsView control bound...

Date: 01/15/2006

ASP.NET 2.0 - Accessing CurrentNode Property for dynamic sitemaps

Issue ==== In an ASP.NET 2.0 application, customer was loading the sitemaps dynamically, based on...

Date: 01/06/2006

Using Parameters of FormParameter type with ObjectDataSource Control on pages that use Master pages.

Recently we got a case where customer is trying to use FormParameters with DataSource controls on...

Date: 01/03/2006

Question How can I extend existing GridView control in ASP.NET 2.0 that has more than one Footer...

Date: 12/13/2005

ASP.NET 2.0 - "Object Reference not set to an instance of an object" when Login and Default Page both inherits Master Page

Problem In a sample ASP.NET 2.0 application there is: - Master page, Login.aspx and Default.aspx....

Date: 12/13/2005

Overview of custom controls v/s user controls

I recently authored this KB Article. Please visit the link for complete information....

Date: 12/10/2005

Session State Management

Session State Modes Available in ASP.NET InProc Sessions are stored in worker process memory....

Date: 12/10/2005

Dealing with IO Exceptions when more than one website writes to a common log file

I have dealt with few such cases where customers are trying to write to a single log file from more...

Date: 12/03/2005

Why Update and Cancel events were not firing on dynamically added Datagrid on the place holder control?

Recently i got a case where customer was creating and intializing ASP.NET Data grid dynamically on a...

Date: 12/02/2005

Extending ASP.NET Datagrid control

Abstract ASP.NET is built on extensible architecture. Each and every control provides a set of basic...

Date: 11/26/2005

Enabling Custom Paging on DataGrid Control

Abstract When custom pagination is enabled, control does not implement any logic to page over a...

Date: 11/26/2005

Handling events inside datagrid control

This sample will give us an idea on: - How we can handle several events provided by Datagrid. How we...

Date: 11/26/2005