Archive for the ‘IIS’ Category

Doesn’t it just drive you crazy when you KNOW something IS there, but it isn’t? Like when you’re in Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista and would like to debug your asp.net application by attaching to the w3wp.exe process. You know you are running asp.net 2.0 code, but the dialog box still claimes that there [...]

Getting my legacy asp scripts to run against a Microsoft Access database on Windows Vista and IIS 7.0 took some investigation. Using Process Monitor was an enormous help when I had no clues but: An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator. Hey, that’s me! And then: Microsoft [...]


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I'm a freelance web and mobile developer that likes to share whatever experiences I might encounter. It used to be .NET related, and still is to large extent, but I'm also a struggling agnostic trying out interesting technologies from the big three - Microsoft, Google, Apple - and the open source world.

  • admin: @Ed M: Thank you for your support. You are right about the phrasing. I'm describing what I'm doing i [...]
  • Ed M: Ah, the "code" tag didn't work in my comment as it did in yours. Let's try again, substituting long [...]
  • Ed M: Thanks so much, Mike. Actually, before I came back here I was experimenting on my own, and I figured [...]
  • admin: @Ed M: Sure, I've thought about it and might add a button that generates complete html that can be c [...]
  • Ed M: This is a great tool and I'd be glad to donate, but sorry, can you give us some clearer and more spe [...]