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Could not load all ISAPI filters for site ###. Therefore site startup aborted.

Whilst setting up a site on a 64bit server running IIS7.5, I was stumped with this error in the event log for a few hours “Could not load all ISAPI filters for site ###.  Therefore site startup aborted.” A quick search of Google resulted in a number of fixes, none of which helped. My colleague [...]

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Presenting designs, concepts and projects to clients with Prezi

A couple of years ago I came across Prezi an interesting web application that allowed you to create online presentations to collaborate and share them with others. Recently I have revisited Prezi to see what’s new and I’m pretty impressed. The app is now a whole lot easier to use and has a lot of [...]

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Switching to C Sharp from VB.NET

Here is a collection of handy snippets for VB developers who may be in the process of transitioning to C#.

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Ultimate HTML5 Cheatsheat

Ultimate HTML5 Cheatsheat by Tech King

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ADO.NET Entity Framework – Querying the Data Model in Code

In my previous post we looked at how to bind ASP.NET controls directly to the Entity Framework (EF) data model using an EntityDataSource object. Whilst this technique offers a very simple and efficient way to databind your pages, it’s usefulness is limited and you may find that for complete control and flexibility you will better [...]

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