A few days ago I was troubleshooting an issue with my laptop when I noticed a large number of errors in the system log that looked like this: Name resolution for the name nrumtznshm.mydomain.org timed out after none of the configured DNS servers responded. This was a warning in the Windows System Event Log with … Continue reading Name resolution timed out after none of the configured DNS servers responded
Also known as watch the precedence order of your registrations! We have recently begun switching our MVC project to leverage the Areas feature in MVC. This is a big benefit and allows us to organize our application functionally as opposed to by file type. As an example it allows us to put everything about updating … Continue reading ASP.NET MVC – Why doesn’t my area route registration work?
Recently we have been using a tool named Axure to develop quick wireframe throw-away prototypes. It's a great prototyping tool that makes it quick and easy to mock-up basic user interaction scenarios for web and mobile applications. The wireframes serve as a basis for discussing workflow and user interactions with customers and development team members … Continue reading Creating Modal Dialogs with Axure
Recently I was trouble shooting an ASP.NET COTS package that utilizes the Windows Task Scheduler to schedule and execute long running tasks asynchronously for users. While troubleshooting, I discovered that the application was using an open source managed wrapper to access the Windows task scheduler API (COM based API from Microsoft). More information on this … Continue reading Programmatically Adding Windows Server 2008 Scheduled Tasks
When I downloaded the soapUI Pro official build (4.5.1), the first thing I tried to do was test some of our services on the test environment. All of our WCF services are protected by NTLM authentication. Unfortunately I immediately hit a wall. Every attempt to call a services threw the following un-handled exception: Error getting … Continue reading soapUI:org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException
Our team has been building WCF based web services for the last few years to support data integration between disparate systems in the enterprise. Web services are a natural fit for this type of integration because they offer flexibility for cross-platform exchanges and are easily configurable to traverse firewalls inside of the corporate network. We’ve … Continue reading Evaluating soapUI for Web Service Verification
This is the first article in a series that I am writing about how to create and maintain better quality unit tests. Over the last few years I have been involved in several different development projects where we have made a valiant effort to unit test our code. All of the team members saw the … Continue reading Unit Tests: Why quality matters and how to write better tests
Recently we upgraded an MVC 3 application to MVC4 and wanted to take advantage of the new bundling and minification functionality for our css and js files. There are some great articles on the asp.net site about how to use all of these new features: http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-4/bundling-and-minification Initially I tested it out on a brand new … Continue reading ASP.NET MVC4 Bundling and Minification: Where did System.Web.Optimization go?
Recently we needed to determine if certain URLs in one of our older .asmx services were still in use. The best way for us to do this was to review the IIS logs for our site so that we could determine if there were any hits against the given pages. However, once a took a … Continue reading IIS Log Parser: An extremely useful tool
I've been using R# from Jet Brains extension for Visual Studio for about three years and consider it a critical part of the IDE. In fact, when I consider using a beta or release candidate build of Visual Studio, my first question is whether or not R# is available for use in the new version. … Continue reading Jet Brains ReSharper: Essential Extension for Visual Studio
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