ASP.NET
A couple of days ago one of our .NET developers asked me to help solve an issue on his machine. He said that his breakpoints were not being hit due to missing symbol files. I asked him to close Visual Studio and show me step by step how he debugs.He started Visual Studio 2005He opened his solutionHe publishes his site to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\<proj... navigates to the website using IEHe sets a breakpointHe attaches to the worker processThe breakpoints will not be hit and I explained him why....
Well I was a bit surprised about this update especially since I didn't read about it on any of the blogs in my RSS Feedreader. Apparently Microsoft released yesterday (10th October 2006) a Security Update for System.Web.dll. Apparently there is a cross-site scripting vulnerability (categorized as moderate risk) that allows malicious users to compromise a computer running ASP.NET 2.0 and in doing so steal confidential data. Versions 1.0 and 1.1 of the .NET Framework are not affected. I guess that...
I was looking for a nice diagram I could print showing the ASP.NET Page Life Cycle and I found on Google a diagram drawn by Léon Andrianarivony: (Click on the image for a larger version) Cross-posted from The .NET Aficionado