Another Web Project Annoyance

YAWPA (Yet Another Web Project Annoyance)

- Visual Studio 2003
- IIS 6

When I have a solution in debug mode attached to aspnet_wp.exe and try to open another solution that uses a web project, the second instance of Visual Studio just freezes ... no warning, no error, nothing.

Really annoying!  I was just trying to open the other solution so I could check something in a non-web project for reference and got sucked into trying to figure out why it wouldn't load.  Took me a few minutes to figure it out but I've been coding for many hours now and my problem solving skills are starting to suffer I think.

PInvoke How-Tos!

Matt Tiemeyer found this site today while we were digging up some obscure PInvoke API documentation called PInvoke.net ... it's like a Wiki with everything you wanted to know about PInvoke and lots of sample code.  Very great resource ... added it to my bookmarks and you should too.

From the Site:

It's time to stop writing PInvoke signatures from scratch! Instead, copy and paste your way to productivity!

And this site has more than just signatures & type definitions. For example:

• Folks like you are sharing gotchas, tips, and samples specific to managed code. For example, check out why you shouldn't call CoInitializeSecurity from managed code.
• Alternative managed APIs are suggested as a replacement for using PInvoke in the first place.
• This site contains miscellaneous community resources that are helpful for being successful at unmanaged code interoperability. Feel free to add to these pages, too!

ASP.Net - Parser Error Message: Access is denied

Getting the semi-random error "Parser Error Message: Access is denied" in ASP.Net?

Read this knowledge base:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329065

This was on Slashdot

it's still interesting though ...

http://www.grc.com/x/news.exe?cmd=article&group=grc.news.feedback&item=60006

Easy Icons

It plagues us all ... how to get good web icons?

Try out IconBuffet's free icons!

Web Form Design

Java, ASP.Net or Perl ... it plagues us all...

How do we design good web forms?

Well, here is some help, finally!

- Cory