February 2009 Entries

web.config/app.config and VSS

As .Net Developers we often need to change web.config/app.config settings. We also need to share web.config/app.config without clobbering each others settings via Visual Source Safe (VSS). There are two kinds of config changes. 1. Changes that you do not want other developers to inherit a. Connection string changes or settings values i. that do not change the config structure ii. that need to vary between developers · You should: 1. Point to each config files with Windows Explorer 2. Uncheck the...

Enabling classic ASP pages on Windows server 2003 with IIS 6.0

Enabling classic ASP pages on Windows server 2003 with IIS 6.0 Problem: we want to run a classic ASP page in the middle of our ASP.NET project from Carl Morita - original article: http://www.dovetailsoftware... IIS 6.0 might have classic asp pages disabled - (classic asp pages are disabled by default) Open up ‘Manage Your Server’ console via Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Manage Your Server Then click on ‘Application Server’ -> ‘Manage...