ASP.NET custom control with ParseChildren(false) not playing well in the designer or with WAP

I just made a post to the ASP.NET forms for Web Application Projects about this because that’s where it’s affecting me immediately, but honestly I think it’s a bigger problem than that. Basically I’ve got an ASCX whose code-behind is marked with ParseChildren(false). I then use AddParsedSubObject to handle the adding of controls inside of that […]

No App_[Local|Global]Resources support in Web Application Projects?

I did some research back in the beta days of VS2005 for upgrading our existing site to take advantage of a bunch of different features that we had either written custom code or used third party code for. One of those features was localization/globalization. I had spent a bunch of time writing custom resourcing support into our existing […]

How to perform UI automation of browser apps with MSH (WATIR without the Ruby)

For anyone who’s familiar with WATIR, check out this simple MSH script I whipped up: # Create an instance of IE$ie = new-object -ComObject “InternetExplorer.Application” # Navigate to MSN search$ie.Navigate(“http://search.msn.com”) # Make IE visible$ie.Visible = $true # Grab the DOM document instance$document = $ie.Document # !! See note at end of post !! # Get […]

ASP.NET (1.x and 2.x) maxRequestLength suckyness…

So you need people to upload files to your web application, but you’re a smart developer and you want to make sure you’re not vulnerable to any kind of DoS. Luckily Microsoft has built a setting into the <httpRuntime> element of ASP.NET called maxRequestLength to govern the maximum size of an HTTP request. Great, problem solved! Well, […]

Begging For Quartz

Quartz is the codename for an web development IDE, part of the Expression suite, that is targeted at web designers/developers. It’s undeniably the best implementation of web development environment out of Microsoft ever. It blows VS.NET off the face of the Earth with it’s support for designing web sites with respect to standards technologies (CSS, [X|D]HTML, XSLT, etc.). It also […]