The built in webserver in Visual Studio 2005, formerly known as Casini, uses a dynamic or static port on the localhost machine (e.g. http://localhost:2049/default.aspx). It is dynamic by default, but you can make it...
Scott Hanselman showed us how to add MicroSummaries to a website using an .ashx file. It was clean and simple, but it would be really cool if we could use the description meta tag instead so we don’t have to maintain two...
I’ve written about whitespace removal before , but I think this is the best solution so far. It is a plug n’ play HTTP module that works simply by adding the class to the App_Code folder. It uses regular expressions to...
Social bookmarking is often thought of as being something used only on blogs. That’s probably because you only see them on blogs, when they in fact could be used at most other types of websites as well. It is a feature...
ASP.NET ships with a SqlMembershipProvider and a ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider that makes user authentication and authorization very easy to implement, but for some reason those are the only membership providers...
Little Helper , the interactive help system for Headlight is now live and almost finished. It is build much like a Wiki so Headlight users can contribute and ask questions. I like to call it a good mix of a blog and an...
Today I wrote a new dynamic RSS feed for a little project called Little Helper . It all works fine, but when I tried to validate it using FeedValidator , the pubDate was invalid. The validator told me that the date was...
In a recent web project I suddenly got an unexpected exception when I was uploading a file using a standard <asp:FileUpload /> control in ASP.NET 2.0. I’ve only been testing the website in Firefox at that point and...
Yesterday I had to come up with a method that retrieved the subdomain from the current web request on an ASP.NET website. I thought that the System.Uri class contained that information in an easy retrievable way, but no...
You cannot always rely on the browser language as a valid indicator for what currency your visitors use, and sometimes it doesn’t matter because your web application let’s them decide the currency themselves. You then...
