ComputerZen.com - Scott Hanselman's WeblogScott Hanselman's Thoughts on .NET, WebServices, and LifeATTENTION: RSS Subscribers to ComputerZen.com using my Radio RSS FEED- December 5, 2004 If you are receiving this post, you may be subscribed to my Radio UserLand RSS Feed (that I've been silently updating for over a year.) It's time to stop using that feed as I'm going to stop updating it. Please use this URL for your RSS Feed: http:www.hanselman.comblogSyndicationService.asmxGetRss Thanks! Scott Hanselmanhttp://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=0a883ebd-545a-458f-8a03-383065559926 Precompile.axd in ASP.NET 1.1 with System.Web.Handlers.BatchHandler: A harbinger of ASP.NET 2.0 left vestigially in 1.1- December 5, 2004 I'm surprised I'm just now noticing this. Jon Galloway hooked up the apparently unused System.Web.Handler.BatchHandler to an httpHandler and was able to precompile all his .ASPX pages. This could be useful during deployment to catch any goofs in ASPX code. Certainly not something you want on in production lest you be DoS'ed with compilation, but a helpful thing regardless. To set this up at the machine level, add the following line to the <httpHandlers> section..http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=75a25837-de4f-403f-ad5a-e7d397be0ad0 Target: Referral Spam in dasBlog- December 4, 2004 I've pretty much solved the comment-Spam problem (only one person has voiced their distaste so far) but a recently perusal of my logs and older posts indicated a ridiculous amount of referral spam. This is when someone hits a post on your site and has changedhacked the HTTP Referrer Header to indicate where they came from. If your blog adds this referrer to the page, as most to, you've just linked to Hot Gay Sex (not that there's anything wrong with Hot Sex...http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=8c8cbf02-b25f-4170-9e68-110afdaa46f1 GUI Front End to Chris Sells' XmlPreCompiler - For Debugging XmlSerialization Errors- December 3, 2004 I spend a lot of time with the XmlSerializer (I personally dig it immensely, and I think too many people complain about it, but anyway) and while I put up an article on how to debug directly into the generated assemblies, I noticed that Mathew Nolton has a GUI Front-End to Chris's XmlSerializerPreCompiler. The tool will check to see if a type can be serialized by the XmlSerializer and shows any compiler errors that happen behind the scenes. +1 for Useful, thanks Chris...http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=1b228de5-b940-450b-b024-9751685431b0 HTTP POSTs and HTTP GETs with WebClient and C and Faking a PostBack- December 3, 2004 A fellow emailed me wanting to screen scrape, er, ah, harvest a page that only displays the data he wants with a postback. Remember what an HTTP GET looks like under the covers: GET whateverpage.aspxparam1=value¶m2=value Note that the GET includes no HTTP Body. That's important. With a POST the 'DATA' moves from the QueryString into the HTTP Body, but you can still have stuff in the QueryString. POST...http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=43e49ec8-1fa7-44c1-8177-42cd4fead8db Being a good .NET citizen means certain things...start with your debugging skills- December 3, 2004 I've not been one to work the newsgroups, answering questions. I probably should. I'm more of a one on one person, and I tend to go the extra mile when folks (largely strangers) ask me technical questions. I've had email threads 10-deep with total strangers on technical questions, and only at the end do I say, "Um, do I know you" I haven't done what Scott Mitchell wisely did and setup a "Getting Help" policy, but I'm quickly getting there. I'll happily answer...http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=228293b6-c0f0-4cb6-ba10-0c18e728be6d FireBlogging - The View From My House- December 2, 2004 It's 1:09am on Thursday, December 2nd 2004, and here's the view from my bedroom window. The house next door is burning and we share a wooden fence. Pretty exciting stuff! Fortunately, I'm not too worried, I'm in a family of fire-fighters. P.S. For those of you not in the U.S., most, if not all, residential housing (especially in the Suburban Western U.S.) is made of wood and quite flammable. My wife's still not used to this fact, and her family..http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=245d5d2c-73fa-400d-a894-bff747254f97 Adobe PDF Reader slower than Molasses Speed up Acrobat Reader 10x+- December 2, 2004 Here's a great little free util that Omar has found. I used to move the plugin's manually to speed things up, but PDF Speedup makes me NOT DREAD opening a PDF anymore. BTW, does Acrobat 6 suck LOTS more than Acrobat 5 I HATE the new Find Dialog. I have previously written about how darn slow Adobe Acrobat 6 is when launching. I don't understand why Acrobat is so darn annoying. Here are some things I don't care for: Don't create a &8220;My...http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=5077d050-ead4-491b-9df1-be02a030e03a NUnit Unit Testing of ASP.NET Pages, Base Classes, Controls and other widgetry using Cassini (ASP.NET Web MatrixVisual Studio Web Developer)- December 1, 2004 There's a lot of info out there on how to cobble together NUnit Unit Testing of ASP.NET Pages and assorted goo. NUnitASP is a nice class library to facilitate this kind of testing, but it doesn't solve a few problems: Do you havewant a Web Server on your TestBuild machine How do you get your Test Pages and such over to the Web Server Just automatically copy them Are your Test cases self-contained That is, do they require external files and...http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=944a5284-6b8d-4366-81e8-2e241401e1b3 Opportunity: Windows is completely missing the TextMode boat...- December 1, 2004 With all this talk of shiny Avalon, I'm surprised that more people aren't mentioning "text-mode" applications. I assume we all realize that there are literally millions of Windows machines from 95 to XP that exist only to allow more than one TelnetProcommPlusTerminal window at a time, so end-users can interact with remote systems. Point of Sale is a huge example: Blockbuster Video – I'd hate to have the video store guy have to reach for a mouse...http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=dfea663b-1764-4b4b-a06b-19105cb306ea |