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Category Archives: ASP.NET

Things I learned when re-learning ASP.NET

Friday, March 13, 2015

ASP.NET has changed dramatically in the past five years. I’ve had the privilege to work on some projects using the newer web stacks, as well as modernize an old project. I’d been away from the Microsoft ecosystem from around 2006 until 2011, and after working in dynamic languages (javascript, python, lisp), it took me some […]

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brief list of things that make working in C# frustrating

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Problem: .NET framework classes don’t use interfaces enough Specific example: DataSource / DataBind()are separately defined on Repeater and GridView, (and Control, and many, many others), and my abstract base class doesn’t care which option an implementor chooses, it just wants to bind the data however the base control wants it. Possible Solutions: Define interface IDataBinding, […]

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CAS Authentication in C#

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

For a recent project I wanted to authenticate using Central Authentication Service (CAS), a single-sign on server deployed world-wide. My project is in ASP.NET, so I hunted down CASP, a C# class produced by John Tantalo at Case Western Reserve University. Coincidentally, John was also responsible for Planarity, a flash game which has only stolen […]

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Server Application Unavailable, no event log, .NET 2

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

A perplexing error while setting up my new system: Server Application Unavailable The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable. Please hit the “Refresh” button in your web browser to retry your request. Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this specific request failure can be […]

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