Some quick notes on the basics. I’ll try to follow this up with another post soon on some of the particulars. Creating a new configuration: Build -> Configuration Manager In the drop down of current configurations, go all the way to the bottom and select “Add new…” You can choose to copy settings from an [...]

After including a control from the ASP.Net AjaxControlToolkit I got this error: Microsoft JScript runtime error: AjaxControlToolkit requires ASP.NET Ajax 4.0 scripts. Ensure the correct version of the scripts are referenced. If you are using an ASP.NET ScriptManager, switch to the ToolkitScriptManager in AjaxControlToolkit.dll. I believe there are many other problems which can cause this [...]

I recently setup an ASP.Net 3.5 web application on a new Windows 2008 R2 server with IIS 7 and ran into a few issues.  I will post about them all under the tag: “asp.net 3.5 with iis 7“. After setting up the file system and creating the application, I tried to load the default document [...]

I have been developing a strategy for deploying an ASP.Net Web Application (Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5) to staging servers, and to production.  In the process, I have encountered 3 products from Microsoft that almost sound synonymous to the untrained ear, but are very different and are designed for completely different purposes.  I wish that [...]

One of the big problems I faced in .Net 1.1 web applications was capturing the enter key so that the correct asp:button would be “clicked.” To solve this problem, ASP.Net 2.0 lets you specify this on the html form element with the defaultfocus and defaultbutton attributes. This is really slick and works like a charm. [...]

For a project at work, I have been developing an ASP.Net app using .Net version 3.5. I have been using the built in Cassini web server for development, but finally the moment of truth came to put it on IIS on our development server and I had a few hickups. I am using Windows Server [...]