David Wang provided a nice article on diagnosing 401 errors. This article is also very useful to analyze MCMS problems when guest access does not work even if the guest account is correctly configured in MCMS. HOWTO Diagnose IIS 401 Access Denied
Themes are a very nice feature in ASP.NET 2.0 to allow personalization and customization of a site very easily. Even without recompile an web administrator would be able to change the look and feel of a site completly by just changing the theme in the web.config (e.g.). So it would be great if you could […]
Once in a while the question how to strip <p> and <span> tags in empty placeholders comes up in the newsgroup. A solution would be to implement a custom placeholder control that removes these tags or a workflow event. The simplest solution is a workflow event to do this. This event would have to check […]
When switching from published mode to edit mode using a template that holds the ASP.NET 2.0 navigation controls using the MCMS Site Map Provider will show an unwanted behaviour: the navigation controls will continue to show the published mode URLs. This is being caused by the fact that these controls buffer the information in viewstate. […]
I have done a new update of the MCMS FAQ today. [Online html version] [Offline CHM version]
A couple of weeks ago I had the requirement to enable ASP.NET output caching programmatically rather than declarative using the <%@ OutputCache … %> tag. I tried to follow the hints in the following KB: https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?id=323290. Actually what I found is that these procedure do not really work as expected. Especially the following in which I […]
[via CMSWire and Andrew Connell] Packt Publishing hit a home run with the last Microsoft CMS (MCMS) book, Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server. The same team of star authors is now working on the next one, entitled Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development…. The last bit of the article states: There’s also a dash of […]
I did some more hands on labs on ASP.NET 2.0. Later I went to the IIS 7 preview session. This was really a highlight! IIS 7 looks to become a really great product: all configuration for as well managed and unmanaged stuff is now done in the web.config. It is possible to delegate administrative tasks […]
I did some hands on labs on ASP.NET 2.0 and attended a session about asynchronous pages in ASP.NET 2.0. Dmitry (the speaker) showed various different methods on how to implement asynchronous pages: parallel, serial, with and without timeout… It was really a great session full of useful information! Dmitry also published the sample code used […]
Microsoft has just published the chapter “Enhancing performance with Caching” of the MCMS book Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server from Joel, Mei Ying and myself on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_MCMS2002_bk/html/CMSCh22EnhancingPerfCaching.asp
I attended the “ASP.NET 2.0: Best Practices for Building Web Application UI with Master Pages, Themes and Site Navigation” session and had a chance to talk with the speaker and one of the developers about the problem with Themes in Content Management applications which I outlined here. It seems there is currently really no other […]
The day started with a key note from Andrew Lees. Topic of the keynote was “Ready for Business”. Main topics covered were 64bit technology, virtualization and benefits of our new products (SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005) for business and integration strategies. After the keynote I jumped over to the Ask the Experts Area and […]
