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Using the MS DPAPI

Don't. Well, don't if you're building an ASP.NET application that's going to run in a walled off environment on a shared server. Why? Well, it's an interesting issue of security, you see. Strange isn't it, that the Data Protection API has security issues? Read More
posted Friday, March 07, 2008 11:55 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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What to do for your production ASP.NET applications

Here is a nifty (and Web 2.0!!) post about what you should do when deploying an ASP.NET application into production. Considering what I'm going through at the moment to secure an Internet banking web site, there's some nifty time-savers in here. Of course, Read More
posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:06 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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CSS file convention

For as long as I've been caring about the layout and content of the source files I use for any project, I've been prone to splitting the CSS for any web applications I do into two separate files, usually named something like Presentation.css and Layout.css. Read More
posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:55 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Configuration section fun and games

I've been pulling my hair out all weekend over a configuration issue that still doesn't make sense to me. I've created a custom configuration file section in order to simplify the configuration of one application I work on and was following along the Read More
posted Monday, November 19, 2007 8:05 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Response.Redirect and ThreadAbortException

I have just spent two days chasing down a production bug that didn't occur in the development environment. When I had given up and decided to pepper the source with logging and put in a few judicious empty Try/Catch blocks I finally stumbled across the error. AND IT WASN'T ME!!! Sort of. Read More
posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:24 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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CSS Tab Designer

Creating nice interfaces using CSS that are standards compliant is one of the more frustrating tasks for a non-web guy doing web stuff. While I understand the principles behind the tools I use, sometimes overcoming the annoying quirks of the different Read More
posted Monday, November 27, 2006 2:34 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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ASP.Net control registration tip

Scott Guthrie has posted a great tip regarding registering controls in your pages. I didn't know you could do this in ASP.Net 2.0 ! I should read the docs, I suppose... :) Read More
posted Monday, November 27, 2006 7:47 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Type safe session state

I think I've already mentioned this on here somewhere, but making your session object typesafe is one of the coolest things you can do. It now appears I'm not the only person that likes this idea. Read More
posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 2:44 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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An interesting master page trick

I didn't know you could do this (courtesy of Eric Wise from CodeBetter.com). Apparently, you can get the original, unmangled control ID using the ClientID property of the control. Read More
posted Friday, August 04, 2006 3:13 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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ScottGu's tips and tricks

I'm only really making this entry so I can keep the link in the BAS (Blog Attached Storage), but both of you might be interested in having this around. Read More
posted Friday, August 04, 2006 9:45 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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