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Comment on How to check for a network connection in .NET 2.0 (C# or VB) by Petroclus

Petroclus — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:15:57 +0000

The NetworkAvailabilityChanged event doesn’t appear to get raised when a ‘Dial-Up Connection’ is disconnected. (It does when the dial-up connection is made though). It may be model/driver specific – I’ve only tried it on a ZTE GSM modem.

Comment on No Facebook Connect Cookies for Localhost Development by Carl Prothman

Carl Prothman — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:08:08 +0000

Thank-you! I’ve spend over a week trying to figure out why the Facebook APIs were not saving the auth cookie.

Here is what I did to get it working: 1) Add “127.0.0.1 localhost.local” to my host file

2) Updated my FB application Connect settings to use “http://localhost.local/” URL and “localhost.local” domain.

3) Create an IIS Web site on port 80 with the name “localhost.local”. – I had to stop my default web site, which is also on port 80

4) Update my Visual Studio 2010 web application to use IIS with the “http://localhost.local/” url.

HTH

Comment on No Facebook Connect Cookies for Localhost Development by Sam Dalton

Sam Dalton — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:05:48 +0000

Life saver. Unbelievable that this was all it took! Thank you!

Comment on ASPX Edit Helper Add-In For Visual Studio by Karl

Karl — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:39:29 +0000

@George Unfortunately the Express versions do not support addins

Comment on No Facebook Connect Cookies for Localhost Development by eric m

eric m — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:05:18 +0000

THANK YOU!!!!!THANK YOU!!!!!THANK YOU!!!!!THANK YOU!!!!! this just finally concluded a full 8 hours of “why why why”…i could not get Facebook to connect in any browsers but safari…THANK YOU AGAIN

Comment on Survival Skills for Developers by George

George — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:01:29 +0000

The point you raised is very relevant, but I’ve found that most good developers have implemented all your suggestion as a matter of course, without any song and dance. I always drum into whoever will listen that “You should never write the same code twice”. If that means keeping a library of methods/functions/subroutines call them what you will, then so be it. However, as I’ve found, a lot of developers do keep such a library, but only the really good ones actually use it.

Comment on The Dirty Secret of Computer Science by George

George — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:50:56 +0000

I trained in the now forgotten science of Control Engineering, which (my personal opinion) morphed into computer science in the late 80’s early 90’s. I trained in applying analogue solutions to problems, using things like synchros and resolvers. Comp Sci changed all that, but I agree that it does appear to be a ‘dirty secret’ nowadays. What we as Software Developers do IS an art form, that will never be recognized by the hoi polloi because it’s never seen. ‘Hello World’ doesn’t begin to show what incredible sophistication has gone into writing that on the screen in front of them. I have often taken the bitter pill of what we, as engineers, used to say, “You’re only as good as your last stuff-up”.

Comment on ASPX Edit Helper Add-In For Visual Studio by George

George — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:40:41 +0000

I’m running the free express version of Visual Web Developer, and I can’t seem to get the ASPX edit helper to work. I’ve copied it to the Addins folder of visual studio 2008, but nothing happens. has anybody any thoughts on this please?

Comment on Cookieless Session with ASP.NET Ajax and Web Services by Emily

Emily — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:57:14 +0000

You are amazing, thank you so much for this post! This helped a lot :)

Comment on Visual Studio 2008 Hangs When Debugging ASP.NET App by Khalid Mehmood

Khalid Mehmood — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:56:14 +0000

HI, thanks alot this solved my problem