While doing some Facebook Connect development, I found that the expected cookies were not being set when developing on localhost.  To fix the problem, I added localhost.local to my hosts file (pointing at 127.0.0.1) and changed the settings for my Facebook application to use localhost.local as the base domain.

I’ve been doing some work with ASP.NET MVC but was having periodic issues with Visual Studio 2008 hanging (freezing / becoming unresponsive) when I tried to run my web application with debugging.  The problem only occurred with a specific web project. I tried deleting the Temporary ASP.NET Files (%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\Temporary ASP.NET Files) but that did not solve [...]