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Tutorial for Using ASP.Net MVC Framework on Different Versions of IIS

Andrew's Blog — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:49:03 GMT

Last night Alan Dean came up to VBUG in Newcastle to speak on ASP.Net MVC Framework. One of the discussion points we had was any potential issues for hosting sites on IIS due to the routing and url rewrite elements of the MVC Framework. I wasn't clear...(read more)

Can't Save your XSL/T File? Have You Closed Your XMLReader?

Andrew's Blog — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:08:00 GMT

This week I have been working on a server control for a site I'm working on which reads in an XML file containing some product information and then using an XSL/T file transforms the output into correctly formatted XHTML. One problem which occurred...(read more)

Creating Http Redirects in IIS7 on Virtual Directories like IIS6

Andrew's Blog — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:04:41 GMT

In IIS6 when creating a virtual directory it was possible to set the virtual directory to actually add as a redirect to another page or site. In IIS7 this is still possible however it needs to be achieved slightly differently. Lets take an...(read more)

Twitter Power - Fix Outlook.exe Process Never Ending with Skype

Andrew's Blog — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:26:07 GMT

This morning I was installing the Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft Outlook so I can set up VBUG Online Meetings and send out invitations direct from Outlook when I mentioned on Twitter that I'd been having problems with the Outlook process constantly...(read more)