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Cannot access namespace or class inside App_Code folder

Occasionally you may come across an issue in Visual Studio 2010 where you place a class inside the App_Code folder but you cannot seem to get a reference to it or the namespace from the rest of your application. Apparently this is down to a project setting in Visual Studio. To resolve the issue, right [...]

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Web Application Administration Tool – An error was encountered MySQL

Today I received this error when setting up new user using MySQLMembershipProvider for the ASP.NET membership framework: Web Application Administration Tool – An error was encountered Unfortunately the Web Application Administration Tool does not provide a great deal of assistance when the provider fails. I find the simplest way to resolve these issues is to [...]

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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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