March 29, 2007Today some of the C# / ASP.NET 2.0 code I created generated the following error “Circular file references are not allowed”. After quite a bit of investigation, I realized that this was the result of how I had User Control’s organized within my website. For no good reason I was separating many of my user [...]
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March 29, 2007Check out this new product from Adobe Labs. It’s a cross-operating system runtime being developed that allows developers to leverage Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, and Ajax to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/
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March 24, 2007Recently, one of our clients required that there entire site be optimized for search engines. As part of SEO our goal was to create hackable URL’s and avoid special characters on the query string. This meant no querystring arguments. We choose to use URL rewriting as a way to map dynamic virtual directories to database [...]
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March 21, 2007Yesterday one of our clients requested a simple change to a custom user control for one of their ASP.NET 2.0 site. We made the change, and deployed ONLY the .ascx file to their production server. The deployment resulted in the following run-time error: Unable to cast object of type ‘ASP.controls_customControl_ascx’ to type ‘controls_customControl’. This error [...]
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March 20, 2007My name is Joel, and I am a Microsoft.NET system architect and Director of Development for a leading interactive development firm located in Tempe, Arizona. Our firm designs and develops a wide range of custom web applications which leverage Flash, Ajax, ASP.NET and the Microsoft.Net Framework.
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