Let’s say you want to point to a different connection string when you deploy your ASP.NET Web Project to your hosting provider. Until recently you’d have to modify your Web.config file manually. This is an easy procedure but you might end screwing up the file in some way. Visual Studio 2010 comes w...

How do you as a developer work seamlessly across multiple environments machines? In this article I describe one possible solution.

I implemented the exception handling and after logged the exception wrote line for redirecting the page to the error page. So that user will see the custom error page instead of the original exception screen. But, when I deploy the code on WS 2003 or earlier it's working without issues. But, When I ...

Most of the time when you are creating a build script (TFSBuild.proj), you need to do some steps after the build. Wether it's creating an MSI for easier deployment, creating a VSI for a Visual Studio Add-in, or whatever if may be... you normally do a post build. A post build event looks like the ...

Here is a little bit of knowledge that lots of people are not aware of. There is an Attribute that is InternalsVisibleToAttribute that allows access to a specific external project (the unit test project).

You have a WSP and you are trying to deploy it inside the farm and it doesn't work. You hate it. You try to look in the Event Viewer, SharePoint logs, etc. Before you event start looking around everywhere, be sure to know that when you are adding/deploying a solution package you need some specify...

NHibernate Query Analyzer (NHQA) helps a lot while working in a .NET project with a relational database that makes use of NHibernate as the persistence manager. I was having a problem getting NHQA to work with a business data layer constructed with the help of ActiveRecord - I searched the Intern...

Each ASP.NET Web Application has its own configuration file called web.config file. In fact every directory in ASP.NET application can have one. Settings in each web.config file apply to the directory where its placed, and all the subdirectories of that directory. This is called Configuration In...

IISAdmin - Tool for creating multiple asp.net websites on IIS5 and winxp

Have you ever wanted to provide a level of protection to your values in the configuration files? Using aspnet_regiis will help you in encrypting the configuration section(s) in the config files. The executable resides in: "<windows_root>\Microsoft.NET\Framework\<framework_version>&q...

Lessons learned: Patching SharePoint servers and configuration management.

As an alternative to appSettings you can use SingleTagSectionHandler to store settings in a web.config file. Learn how.

Funny – this approach is so darned simple, I am surprised why I hardly find anyone who actually uses it.