By Gary Woodfine on 19/06/2009 20:06

I was asked this question by one of my non technical oriented clients this week,  and although I managed to answer the question for him in layman terms, I was rather intrigued by what the complete technical answer would have been to this question.  The question led me on a trail of defining the technical answer to this question. 

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By Gary Woodfine on 19/06/2009 09:48

If you’re like me and often have to perform website maintenance for clients. Normally part of this maintenance task is to understand the structure the predecessor webmaster had created and you often need to find out which pages are actually live and which files can be removed, this little tip can save you hours of work.

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By Gary Woodfine on 15/06/2009 20:50

I came across this the other day while surfing around reading blogs regarding my current favourite subject “Service Oriented Architecture” , I thought it contains some good assumptions to avoid when developing WCF services.

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By Gary Woodfine on 08/06/2009 20:12

In this post I provide detail on how to move your production install to your localhost and how to recover from a bug in DNN 5.0

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By Gary Woodfine on 06/06/2009 15:24

I have been mucking about with Last.Fm a lot lately.  I started looking at the API’s for the service, and I noticed they are using REST as an architectural style for the web services.  I thought I would just try elaborate the differences and approaches between REST and SOAP.

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By Gary Woodfine on 26/05/2009 16:03

In this post I provide details on how to use the Service Factory, provided by the team at Microsoft patterns and practices. This is partly for my benefit and also for whoever would like the information.  I will not be providing exhaustive information about this awesome bit of kit, but I will be supplying enough information to get you started on it



As I have mentioned previously I like to use...

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By Gary Woodfine on 22/05/2009 12:11

aspnet_wp.exe could not be started. The error code for the failure is 80004005. This error can be caused when the worker process account has insufficient rights to read the .NET Framework files. Please ensure that the .NET Framework is correctly installed and that the ACLs on the installation directory allow access to the configured account.

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By Gary Woodfine on 20/05/2009 09:13

In this post I provide instructions on how to set up a virtual network of Virtual PC’s on the same laptop.

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By Gary Woodfine on 18/05/2009 13:52

Somewhat confusingly, Visual Studio offers two ways to create an ASP.net-powered web application. In this post I discuss the differences between them and provide details as to which situation is best to use either.

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By Gary Woodfine on 10/05/2009 14:42

Visual studio provides great support for the software development using XML files. This quick tip illustrate how easy it is to generate XML Schema (.xsd) files from an existing XML file.

 

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