If you have ever had to change the default asp.net runtime in IIS 6 you might have noticed that it warns you about restarting all of the other websites before it can be applied. On small servers with a handful of sites it's not a big deal....
If you're using the ASP.NET membership you're probably aware that one of the things it usesto keep the user logged in can be a cookie. This cookie can be used to store additional details also to help you cut down on the database calls required...
A symlink or symbolic link can be easily created in Widows Server 2008 to share a common folders or files amongst projects. Lets assume you have a folder in domain1.com called CSS and you want to share this folder with domain2.com. You could just upload the CSS folder...
By default you can import a sql file up to 2mb in size. Most of the time you will have a larger filesize due to all the content your website will be storing. There are 2 ways you can overcome this limitation. Either use the mysql command line (it really...
At present if you install Wordpress as part of the Web Platform Installer it does not install PHPMyAdmin for you. Luckily this install is very easy to do. Head over to http://www.phpmyadmin.net and download the latest installer to your server. Once downloaded unzip the contents of the...
I recently had to install and setup a few Wordpress blogs onto Windows Server 2008. No biggy I thought. I'll just install Wordpress using the Web Platform Installer and away I go. Unfortunately it's never that easy! Below are the steps I took, the pitfalls I...
I've just submitted a new update to the Windows Marketplace for my RTE News Reader app. This update is only a minor update but includes a fix to a nasty bug that was forcing some news articles to not display. The bug was caused by badly formatted XML...
On one of my latest management projects I had to test and ensure that the project would work as expected in Internet Explorer. With the exception of a few style issues, which are to be expected when IE testing, I noticed that my DataTables.net code was returning the following...
If you're using Entity Framework migrations in a multi-project solution you might have noticed that when you run the 'Update-Database' action your database was given the name 'yourdatabase.Data.DataContext'. Some people don't mind this default naming scheme but I want to...