.NET 4.0 has a new GAC, why?

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%windir%\Microsoft.NET\assembly\ is the new GAC, does it mean now we have to manage two GACs, one for .NET 2.0-3.5 apps and the other for .NET 4.0 apps?

The question is, why?

Yes since there are 2 distinct Global Assembly Cache (GAC), you will have to manage each of them individually.

In .NET Framework 4.0, the GAC went through a few changes. The GAC was split into two, one for each CLR.

The CLR version used for both .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.5 is CLR 2.0. There was no need in the previous two framework releases to split GAC. The problem of breaking older applications in Net Framework 4.0.

To avoid issues between CLR 2.0 and CLR 4.0 , the GAC is now split into private GAC’s for each runtime.The main change is that CLR v2.0 applications now cannot see CLR v4.0 assemblies in the GAC.

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5 Simple Steps to Commanding in Silverlight : JohnPapa.net

Implementing ICommand in your Silverlight 4 project only requires a few steps. I have had a dozens of questions about this lately so I decided to share a very simple technique to implement commanding in Silverlight 4.

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Silverlight, RIA Services, and Your Business Objects - Deborah's Developer MindScape

With RIA Services, it is easy to use your own business objects in your Silverlight application… once you have the basic plumbing in place. However, there are quite a few steps required to set up that plumbing. This post details the process of hooking up your business objects, RIA Services, and Silverlight.

So … you follow best practices and build business objects for all of the entities involved in your application. Or maybe you generate those business objects with something like Entity Framework (EF), Linq to SQL or other similar tool. In any case, you now want to use those business objects from a Silverlight application.

Seems like it should be easy, right? Just define a reference from your Silverlight application to your business object component and proceed just like with your WinForms or ASP.NET application. But no.

Silverlight does not allow you to set a reference to a non-Silverlight component. There are a number of ways you can deal with this:

1. Use a Silverlight class library project type and build your business objects in there. Not a good solution if you are using those same business objects with other user interfaces.
   
2. Build a WCF service that provides your business objects to your Silverlight application. You can find out more about this option here.
   
3. Use Rich Internet Application (RIA) Services. This is a new Microsoft technology that is currently out in preview.

This post demonstrates option #3: Using RIA Services. The example presented in this post uses business objects you build yourself. These "home made" business objects are often referred to as POCO, or plain old CLR objects. Use the techniques presented in this post any time you start a new Silverlight application and want to access your POCOs from that application.

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InfoQ: Debate: Microsoft’s RIA Services Code-generating Tools and Sound Architectural Principles

Some developers consider that Microsoft's RIA Services code-generating tools are teaching bad architectural principles to developers while others consider the tools useful if used properly.

Very simple applications can be built up rapidly without much thought given to their architecture. The presentation layer could access the database directly since there would be almost no business logic involved. But what happens if the application grows in complexity adding more and more business logic? Should the presentation layer be let to access the database directly? Solid architectural principles say “No” because such an approach introduces strong links between the two layers so a simple change in one of them has rippling effects in the other.

Microsoft technologies are known for offering code generating tools that make the life simpler for the developer at least at the first glance but are not really useful for large projects, and they are considered by some to teach bad lessons to new developers. RIA Services tools are no exception.

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Silverlight Navigation With the MVVM Pattern

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I recently had a query from a customer that was one of those ones that you think “Aha! That’s easy, you just do this”. Then you think a bit more about it and realise that if you want to do it properly it’s not quite as simple as you first thought.

This particular query related to how to use the navigation framework introduced in Silverlight 3 with the MVVM pattern. For those that don’t know the Model-View-ViewModel pattern is a common pattern often used to build Silverlight and WPF applications since it has strong support for databound UIs and provides good abstraction for unit testing and keeping your view logic separate from the view and the model.

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Creating RIA Services Solutions

Default Solution Structure

In the default solution structure, RIA Services creates a single client project and a single server project. When you create a new project with the Silverlight Application template and select the Enable WCF RIA Services check box, you create a solution with the default structure. A RIA Services link exists between the two application projects. When you build the solution, client code is generated for domain services and shared code. The following illustration shows the default solution structure.

The default solution structure is convenient because all domain service types and shared code added to the server project are automatically available to the Silverlight client project after you build the solution. Also, the shared code you add to the server project is visible in the client project. This structure works well when you do not have many domain services in the server project and you do not need to reuse business logic across many different Silverlight applications.

In a solution with the default structure, you can add more Silverlight applications with a RIA Services link to the server project. However, there are limitations of the default structure. The generated code for each Silverlight client can access all of middle-tier code from the server project. For example, if you have three Silverlight applications linked to a single server project and you want to add a domain service that will be used by only one of the Silverlight applications, all three client applications will have a generated domain context for the domain service and will be able to access that domain service.

For more information, see Walkthrough: Creating a RIA Services Solution. For more information about the code generated for a client project, see Client Code Generation.

Silverlight Business Application template

RIA Services also provides a Silverlight Business Application template. This template provides a convenient starting point for building a business application that utilizes Silverlight for the client. The template builds on the Silverlight Navigation Application and uses RIA Services to support authentication and user registration. When you create a project by using the Silverlight Business Application template, RIA Services creates the solution with the default structure. The Silverlight Business Application automatically adds the following features:

• Login window

• Registration window

• Silverlight Navigation

The default authentication mode for the Business Application is Forms Authentication. To use Windows Authentication, you simply change the value of the authentication element in the Web.config file, such as <authentication mode="Windows"/>, and change the value of the Authentication property on the generated WebContext class. The Business Application template automatically contains code to support either FormsAuthentication or Windows Authentication. For more information, see Walkthrough: Using the Silverlight Business Application Template.

The Services folder of the server project contains the domain services that expose user registration and user authentication. The user registration service utilizes the ASP.NET membership provider to create new users. In the server project, a folder named Models contains classes for defining properties for user and registration data. You can add properties to these classes to customize the user data for your application.

In the client project, the Business Application contains code to simplify developing the presentation layer. The Libs folder and the Controls folder contain assemblies and controls that are used within the template. The Login folder (located within the Views folder) contains the authentication and user registration controls. These controls are automatically enabled in the project. The Resources folder (located in the Assets folder) contains resource strings for text within the project. As you add text to your application, you can add them to the file for application strings.

For more information, see Walkthrough: Using the Silverlight Business Application Template.

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Silverlight 4 101: Silverlight Project Templates - Kevin McNeish [C# and .NET]

Silverlight 4 101: Silverlight Project Templates

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Some Best Practices for Silverlight Application Development (XAML)

I was working with WPF/Silverlight since March 2008 and learnt lots of things. I wrote lots of Articles on Silverlight and published in my Blog. Today I decided to share you some of the best practices you should follow while doing development in WPF/Silverlight. Hope, this will help you guys while writing XAML codes. Read and try to strict with the guidelines whenever you are modifying your XAML.

 

Feedbacks are always appreciated. Hence, don’t forget to leave your comments at the end. If you have any more points, please share it here. I will review them and add those here.

 

Update [08-Aug-2010]: On popular demand, I updated this post with some explanation on “Why?”.

 

Some of the XAML coding best practices mentioned below:

• Don’t use unnecessary “xmlns” namespaces in the XAML file. This overburdens the load time of the Silverlight page (If you are using Resharper, you can do this very easily as it will change the color of the unnecessary items to Grey).
  
• Don’t add same namespaces multiple times in a single XAML page. It screws up the XAML code at the time of maintenance and also loads the assembly namespace multiple times causing various memory issues at runtime.
  
• Use proper name for your “xmlns” namespace prefix. For example: xmlns:commonControls is more meaningful than xmlns:cctrl. This avoids multiple declarations of namespaces in future.
  
• Try avoiding “xmlns” namespace prefix name as “local”. Instead use “localControls” or “localConverters” etc. as per your namespace name. Using “local” will not give you proper meaning. In the same assembly there may be two or more namespaces (e.g. Controls, Converters etc.). In such case, it will be helpful for you to use proper prefix name to distinguish between them in proper way.
  
• When adding a control that has no elements inside it, better to close it by self-closing tag “/>” instead of the hard closing tag (</TAG>). This gives more cleaner XAML code. 
  
• Remove all unnecessary resource keys if they are not in use. These increases the memory uses and you may sometime encounter some animation issues due to this. If you need it at later point of time, you are always welcome to add it.
  
• Don’t use extra panels (e.g. Grid, StackPanel, Canvas etc.) unless it is required.
  
• Always try to use Grid as your panel first and if you require other panels, use them. Grid has the flexible UI layout and thus resizing your application will have a great effect.
  
• Never try to give a name to all of your controls inside your Silverlight page as it takes unnecessary object creation at the time of load. Name only those elements which you want to use from your code behind and/or from your xaml. If you are using MVVM pattern, you can remove the naming of your controls in almost all the cases.
  
• Use the Visibility property of the controls instead of the Opacity property to hide the content. Opacity to zero makes the control to hide but takes space in both memory and the UI. Other side, the Visibility property collapses the control from the UI, thus making spaces for the other controls in the same place.
  
• Use proper formatting of your XAML code. This gives better look of code and also easy to maintain in future.
  
• Use comments in XAML whenever require. This is useful when you revisit the code after a long time or some other person comes to work with your XAML file.
  
• Try to use StaticResource instead of DynamicResource as it increases the performance and also it throws exceptions at development time. Hence, easier to identify the root cause.
  
• Remove unnecessary styles & storyboard animations if they are not require at all.
  
• Try to add your styles in a separate file if you want to share them across your application. If they are specific to a single page then add them in the page resource.

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Luke complained this morning of a boy at school being bossy. Luke said the kid is scary. I said don't be scared your're tougher than him! Luke proudly proclaims yes I am! When I run away from him it's like this -- ZOOM!

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Debugging Data Bindings in a WPF or Silverlight Application

The WPF and Silverlight platforms use late bound data binding resolution for bindings in XAML files. This feature allows a DataContext to be set at run-time and the objects within that DataContext to resolve their property bindings then. This late binding enables cool features like DataTemplates, composable applications and run-time loading of loose XAML.

A side effect of late bound binding resolution that can cause developers some minor frustration is that their controls do not display the expected data at run-time.

This article will explain troubleshooting techniques that can help you locate and correct the problem.

Data Binding Overview

Data binding is fundamental to WPF and Silverlight. You will struggle with your application designs, coding and troubleshooting until you understand data binding in these platforms.

The best data binding resource available is the MSDN Data Binding Overview topic. If you have not read or don't fully understand the material in this topic, please take the required amount of time to learn this material.

Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure

Visual Studio 2010 has great tooling to wire up data bindings and checked them at design-time. Please read this article: How to Enable Using the Binding Builder in WPF and Silverlight Applications.

Visual Studio 2010 has excellent design-time sample data support. If you use design-time sample data, you'll immediately see controls that don't have expected data values at design-time.

For a detailed examination of sample data in the WPF and Silverlight Designer for Visual Studio 2010, please read this article: Sample Data in the WPF and Silverlight Designer.

Troubleshooting List

• Verify that DataContext is set in either XAML or code
• Run the application and view the output in the Debug Output Window
  • For WPF applications you can increase or decrease the amount of information displayed in the Debug Output Window by changing the WPF Trace Settings, Data Binding value
• Name the control that has DataContext assigned, set a break point in the code, and view the named control's DataContext property in the debugger
• If binding to a CLR object, put a breakpoint in the source property getter to see that its actually being queried
• Add a converter to a binding, then put a breakpoint in the converter

Verify that DataContext is set in either XAML or Code

This tip is along the lines of, "if the TV won't turn on, check that it's plugged in."

This is important for many reasons, but one is easily overlooked; if a DataContext is null, the Debug Output Window will not display any error messages in Silverlight or in WPF.

In WPF you can use the below PresentationTraceSources on a binding and set the TraceLevel to High to view errors related to a null DataContext.

View the Debug Output Window

If you have the DataContext set, any data bindings within that DataContext that can't be resolved will be listed in the Debug Output Window at run-time.

Sample Debug Output Window Data Binding Error

Sample One

System.Windows.Data Error: 40 : BindingExpression path error: 'FirstName' property not found on 'object' ''Object' (HashCode=62178992)'. BindingExpression:Path=FirstName; DataItem='Object' (HashCode=62178992); target element is 'TextBox' (Name=''); target property is 'Text' (type 'String')

Sample Two

System.Windows.Data Error: 40 : BindingExpression path error: 'FirstName' property not found on 'object' ''Customer' (HashCode=13640894)'. BindingExpression:Path=FirstName; DataItem='Customer' (HashCode=13640894); target element is 'TextBox' (Name=''); target property is 'Tag' (type 'Object')

While the above messages look verbose and complex, you can glean several interesting points of information that will help you correct this data binding:

• The Binding Path is FirstName. Search your XAML file for FirstName and see if you expect the DataContext to expose a FirstName property whose scope will allow this binding to resolve this property.
• The Source object in Sample One is of Type Object. There is a good chance the Type Object does not have a FirstName property.
• The Source object in Sample Two is of Type Customer. Check your Customer Type; does it have a FirstName property?
• Notice in Sample Two, the target property is Tag. In all likelihood, the Text property was the desired target property and not Tag. Also the Type of Tag is Object; you would probably be expecting String when binding to the FirstName property.

Review

• Verify the property name is spelled correctly
• Verify the property name has the correct character casing. FirstName is not the same as firstName.
• Verify the property is a member of the DataContext Type
• Verify the target element is the correct Type
• Verify the target property name and Type are correct

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Signs in Arizona warn of smuggler dangers - Washington Times

The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state.

The signs were posted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, a major east-west corridor linking Tucson and Phoenix with San Diego.

They warn travelers that they are entering an "active drug and human smuggling area" and they may encounter "armed criminals and smuggling vehicles traveling at high rates of speed." Beginning less than 50 miles south of Phoenix, the signs encourage travelers to "use public lands north of Interstate 8" and to call 911 if they "see suspicious activity."

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, whose county lies at the center of major drug and alien smuggling routes to Phoenix and cities east and west, attests to the violence. He said his deputies are outmanned and outgunned by drug traffickers in the rough-hewn desert stretches of his own county.

"Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona," he said. "They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement. They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has.

"This is going on here in Arizona," he said. "This is 70 to 80 miles from the border - 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States."

He said he asked the Obama administration for 3,000 National Guard soldiers to patrol the border, but what he got were 15 signs.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer condemned what she called the federal government's "continued failure to secure our international border," saying the lack of security has resulted in important natural recreational areas in her state being declared too dangerous to visit.

In a recent campaign video posted to YouTube, Mrs. Brewer - standing in front of one of the BLM signs - attacked the administration over the signs, calling them "an outrage" and telling President Obama to "Do your job. Secure our borders."

BLM spokesman Dennis Godfrey in Arizona said agency officials were surprised by the reaction the signs generated when they were put up this summer.

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Silverlight 4 Training Kit - ScottGu's Blog

free Silverlight 4 Training Kit that walks you through building business applications with Silverlight 4.  You can browse the training kit online or alternatively download an entire offline version of the training kit. 

The training material is structured on teaching how to use the new Silverlight 4 features to build an end to end business application. The training kit includes 8 modules, 25 videos, and several hands on labs.

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Silverlight MVVM: An (Overly) Simplified Explanation

The Model

The Model is where the data for the application goes, The Model can contain:

• Web Services – A Silverlight application typically needs to communicate with the web server to get the data, you can put your web service methods here.
• Rest Services – The same as web services.
• Generic Collections – Basically any data.

 

The View Model

The View Model consists of:

• Properties – One of something. This could be a String or an Object. Implements INotifyPropertyChanged, so that any element bound to it, is automatically notified whenever it changes.
• Collections – A collection of something. This is of type ObservableCollection, so that any element bound to it, is automatically notified whenever it changes.
• Commands – An event that can be raised. Also, one parameter of type Object can be passed. This implements ICommand.

 

The View

This is the part that you can make with no code using Expression Blend.

An Outline

• Model
  • Get your data any way you can. Usually calls to web services.
• View Model
  • Consists of:
    • Properties – One of something. This could be a String or an Object. Implements INotifyPropertyChanged, so that any element bound to it, is automatically notified whenever it changes.
    • Collections – A collection of something. This is of type ObservableCollection, so that any element bound to it, is automatically notified whenever it changes.
    • Commands – An event that can be raised. Also, one parameter of type Object can be passed. This implements ICommand. 
      • Implemented using Behaviors. Mostly the InvokeCommandAction Behavior  
• View
  • Properties
    • Bind to a text box, radio button, toggle button, MediaElement, trigger an animation or ViewState change
  • Collections
    • Bind to List box, TreeMenu
  • Commands
    • Implemented using InvokeCommandAction behavior
      • Bind to a ICommand in the ViewModel
      • Indicate the ICommand that you want to raise
      • Pass a parameter

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MVVM 101

Model: the Data. Holds the information, but not behaviors or services that manipulate the information.

View: the presentation of the data (ex. the xaml in Silverlight). Contains behaviors, events, and data-bindings that ultimately require knowledge of the underlying model and viewmodel. Not responsible for maintaining its state. Instead, it will synchronize this with the viewmodel. Bindings are the integration/synchronization points with the viewmodel (ex. <TextBlock Text="{Binding FullName}" />

ViewModel: the Controller. Liason between Model and View. Might take input from the view and place it on the model, or it might interact with a service to retrieve the model, then translate properties and place it on the view. Maintains state of the View. Triggers events in the view.

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Thank You for Supporting the Future of Human Spaceflight

Thank You for Supporting the Future of Human Spaceflight We recently asked for your help to protect the future of human spaceflight – and the response was impressive. Your phone calls and the efforts of supportive members of Congress helped stop the NASA Authorization bill from being pushed through the House of Representatives before important improvements could be made. This bill would have authorized over five times more taxpayer dollars to fly NASA astronauts on the Russian Soyuz than to develop an American-made commercial alternative that would energize our economy and create jobs right here at home. We still have a tough fight ahead of us, but many in Congress are starting to recognize that commercial vehicles like Dragon and Falcon 9 are the nation's best option for ending our reliance on Russia to transport astronauts to the International Space Station and preserving America's leadership role in space. It's not over yet. When the House returns from its summer recess in September, NASA Authorization bill H.R. 5781 will be up for vote again. We hope you will continue to fight for the opportunity to show how a true public/private partnership can transform America's space program. We thank you for your support and look forward to working together to ensure an exciting future for American spaceflight. --Elon-- You are subscribed as gotbot@gmail.com. To unsubscribe please click here.

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An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format

This message being spewed-forth by an asp.net application means that the DLL concerned has been compiled as a specific "bitness", but one that doesn't match that which IIS is running at. The most usual reason for this is an assembly marked as "x86" deployed to an "x64" server. If the assembly doesn't P/Invoke out to any 32-bit DLLs, change the platform target to "AnyCpu".

As far as the .net framework is concerned, the x86/x64 categorisation is only used as an indicator of requirements, thus if no P/Invoke is going on it's not needed, as the JIT compiler takes the assembly and JIT compiles it to the relevant instruction set at runtime anyway.

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HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error + IIS 7.5 | Andrew Murphy's E-Memory

This is the error that faced me the first time I deployed a .net Framework 3.5 web site to IIS via Visual Studio 2010 and then tried to run it.  After a couple of hours of digging I traced it back to the application pool but I thought it worthy of a write-up.

Problem

Attempting to run a .net framework 3.5 web site hosted in IIS 7.5 (deployed via Visual Studio 2010) gives the following error information:

Error message:

There is a duplicate ’system.web.extensions/scripting/scriptResourceHandler’ section defined

The error points to sections in the web.config file that ships with the site, a clearer view of which is here:

1: <configSections>

2:   <sectionGroup name="system.web.extensions" type="System.Web.Configuration.SystemWebExtensionsSectionGroup, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35">

3:     <sectionGroup name="scripting" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingSectionGroup, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35">

4:       <section name="scriptResourceHandler" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingScriptResourceHandlerSection, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" allowDefinition="MachineToApplication"/>

5:       <sectionGroup name="webServices" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingWebServicesSectionGroup, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35">

6:         <section name="jsonSerialization" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingJsonSerializationSection, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" allowDefinition="Everywhere"/>

7:         <section name="profileService" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingProfileServiceSection, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" allowDefinition="MachineToApplication"/>

8:         <section name="authenticationService" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingAuthenticationServiceSection, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" allowDefinition="MachineToApplication"/>

9:         <section name="roleService" type="System.Web.Configuration.ScriptingRoleServiceSection, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" requirePermission="false" allowDefinition="MachineToApplication"/>

10:       </sectionGroup>

11:     </sectionGroup>

12:   </sectionGroup>

13: </configSections>

This is strange because:

1. The site runs fine in Visual Studio 2010.
2. It works when deployed into IIS via Visual Studio 2008 (on a different development machine and in live).
3. This site works if you alter the framework target to be .net 4.0 and then deploy to IIS and run as normal.

History

This web site was originally developed in Visual Studio 2008 but desperate to try 2010, I followed the procedure below:

1. Installed 2010 on a clean machine (nothing in IIS).
2. Converted the 2008 solution but kept the framework target as 3.5.
3. Ran from Visual Studio.
4. Deployed to IIS and attempted to run from there.

Fault Finding

My first thoughts were:

1. That IIS thinks this is a .net Framework 4 site rather than a 3.5.  I find this hard to check as aspnet_regiis –lk does not work on Windows 7 (my development OS) and finding anything in IIS 7 is a pain in the neck.
2. Visual Studio 2010 has messed something up.

Confirming the versions of the target assemblies for the site was problematic however.  When the site was built as .net 4 and so worked, I was able to view the Handler Mappings for the site.  When it was built for .net 3.5 and so broke, I couldn’t view the mappings as IIS displayed the same error as at run-time:

Solution

It turned out that IIS was confused about the .net framework to use after all, or at least about the application pool version to use.

Viewing the application pools in IIS showed that I had the following:

As you can see, my application was sitting with the default web site inside the DefaultAppPool, which is configured to target .net 4.  Moving the site into the Classic.NET AppPool fixed the issue and worked a treat.

It would have been nice for this to have worked out of the box but you live and learn.

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Why the iPad Hasn't Killed Kindle - Newsweek

Amazon’s Kindle e-reader is a terrific device, but a lot of people, myself included, figured that once Apple’s iPad came out, the poor little Kindle would be toast. The first thing I did at the iPad introduction event was snap a few pictures of a shiny new iPad right next to my Kindle. They came out looking like those pictures where a regular person is standing next to a movie star.

But guess what?

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Canada Jet Crash: Pilot Brian Bews Survives After Ejecting At Lethbridge Airport

Amazing Footage Of Pilot's Jet Crash Escape

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This is incredible, what a narrow escape. For best effect, look at the pictures below the video first then check out the video of the actual crash and ejection.

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Logic and Logic In Action

Instead of watching TV or letting the kids play together (without me) today (just how do I fall into "lazy parenting" so easily?), I used some of the techniques that Lori and I learned at the Love and Logic parenting conference we attended last week. Kids want to contribute to the family, they want to be helpful. Find productive stuff for them to do. Last weekend they helped me wash the car. Today I told them to clean their pool. I didn't tell them how, I just let them go at it. On their own they filled a bucket, asked for soap and got the sponges and scrubbed until they were done. Halfway through as I could see them start to lag a bit, I let them know that if they finished the job and did it well they would be rewarded with a treat. They did awesome and we all enjoyed some ice cream after they were finished. The kids attitude and behavior right now is really good and they seem very happy. Of course they are, you say, you gave them ice cream! Yes they enjoyed it, but it isn't just the yummy treat. They feel proud that they helped the family by doing a chore and feel good about themselves that they did a good job.

This isn't rocket science and it seems like common sense. That's why it's called Love and Logic I guess. Check out their web site, there are a ton of good parenting resources.

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Absolutely Hilarious Computer Quotes

"If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0"

"The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents."

"Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google."

"unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep"  - my daily unix command list

"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." - Robert Firth

"If Python is executable pseudocode, then perl is executable line noise."

"The more I C, the less I see."

"To err is human... to really foul up requires the root password."

"After Perl everything else is just assembly language."

"If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough."

"Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code."

"Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are."
 
"COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods."

“Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.” — Michael Sinz

"There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't."

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - This is not humorous by itself; but in the context it's a classic by Bill Gates in 1981

Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips."

"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer."   - Erik Naggum

"Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell."

"SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it."

"Windows95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.

"People say Microsoft paid 14M$ for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed 14M$ only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man cry'."

"I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly"

"A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light"

"The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2."

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila"

"1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d"

"To go forward, you must backup."

"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code"

"A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting."

"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."

"Better to be a geek than an idiot."

"Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something."

"Geek's favorite pickup line: Hey, does this rag smell like chloroform? "

"Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up."

"Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail."

"Evolution is God's way of issuing upgrades."

"The only problem with troubleshooting is that sometimes trouble shoots back."

"It's a little-known fact that the Y1K problem caused the Dark Ages."

"The box said 'Required Windows 95 or better'. So, I installed LINUX."

"Computer are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows."

"once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary,
over many a strange and spurious site of 'hot xxx galore'.
While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour,
" 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, "give me back my free hardcore!"
quoth the server, 404."

"Mac users swear by their Mac,
PC users swear at their PC."

"Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error."

"Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything's going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new situations you never expected. You'll be forced to patch the code (admit you're wrong) and then the code (wife) will just end up all bloated and unmaintainable in the end."

"Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies."  - Linus Torvalds

"There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand trinary, those that don't, and those that confuse it with binary."

"If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime."

"It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."

"I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'."

"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."

"The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot."

"Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code."

 
"The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones."

"Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you."

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Windows 7 workaround to drag & drop DLLs to GAC - CodeProject

Introduction

I develop in Visual Studio, and I'm switching from XP on my workstation to Window 7 x64. One thing that annoyed me was that I can’t simply drag .NET library DLLs to the assembly folder to install them in the GAC, or select and delete them from the assembly folder to remove them from the GAC, as I had done on Windows XP. When I try to, I get an ‘access denied’ error, even though my domain login is in the Administrators group, and even though I start Windows Explorer with ‘Run as administrator’.

Apparently, Microsoft really wants you to create installation applets to install or remove libraries in the GAC. An alternative is to log on as the actual machine administrator, in which case, drag and drop to the GAC will work.

I like being able to easily add or delete libraries to the GAC on a development workstation, however, so I came up with a work-around to let me do this.

Background

The method is to create .bat command files that use gacutil.exe to add or delete the library, to capture the name of the library when the library file is dragged to the command file, and have the command file run as administrator. Windows 7 doesn’t allow you to set a .bat command file to run as administrator, so a shortcut is created for each command file, and the shortcut is set to run as administrator.

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Visual Studio - Where's my gacutil.exe?

Visual Studio - Where's my gacutil.exe?

Looking for the gacutil for your Visual Studio pre and post-build events?

Visual Studio 2005 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\
Visual Studio 2008 C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\
Visual Studio 2010 C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\

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DIV Opacity

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Making html div backgrounds transparent

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How to Cut a Mango - Step by step instructions to cut and cube mangos.

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Get the most out of your mango! :)

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Baptism, Toy Story 3 and a Car Wash Water Fight (Maybe)

This morning we went to church where Luke switched back to his 3-year old classroom. He had been moved up to the 4-year old room and wasn't ready for the structure and curriculum that came with it. Meanwhile Pastor Mark started a new 2-week series on the importance of baptism for believers. After church we went to San Tan Village and ate at the Food Court. Lori and Emma shared orange chicken from Panda Express, Luke had a Auntie Anne's pretzel with cheese sauce and I had a delicious gyros. After lunch we saw Toy Story 3 in 3D. If there's had been a non-3D one showing at the same time we would have seen that. I personally don't think 3D adds anything to the movie. In fact, it makes the picture less sharp and less vibrant in my opinion. I hope the 3D craze is just a fad. Maybe I'm just and old fart now. Oh, and $37 for movie tickets (2 adult and 2 kids). Dang! Ok rant over, the movie itself was excellent. Pixar managed to make another winner. Toy Story 3 was a great story and had plenty of laughs and excitement for both adults and kids. After the movie we went to Walmart and bought some car wash supplies. The idea is for everybody to get in their bathing suits and wash the car and have a water fight. But right now it is like 140 degrees outside and we really don't want to go out there, water or no water.

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Remember When?

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Iranian nuclear scientist returns home to a hero's welcome

An Iranian nuclear scientist at the center of a bizarre espionage drama arrived here to a hero's welcome Thursday morning, including a personal greeting from several senior government officials.

Shahram Amiri flashed victory signs to dozens of reporters as he stepped into Imam Khomeini International Airport, and his 7-year-old son broke down in tears as his father held him for the first time since Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia 14 months ago.

He was also greeted by Hassan Qashqavi, a high-ranking Foreign Ministry official, as well as a deputy interior minister and a deputy science minister.

Iran's Arabic-language news channel Al Alam extensively covered the arrival, but it was not shown live on state television, which does not broadcast in the early morning.

Amiri's tale has dominated Iranian media since Monday night, when he surfaced in front of Iran's diplomatic mission in Washington and asked for a ticket back to his homeland. Amiri, 32, told officials that he had been abducted by U.S. intelligence operatives and had spent much of the past year in Tucson being questioned about Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Amiri's reappearance was as mysterious as his disappearance and came just weeks after a series of Internet videos added to the intrigue surrounding the case. In the videos, Amiri claimed alternately to have been kidnapped by the CIA and to have come to this country on his own accord to pursue a PhD.

The case has emerged as a source of embarrassment for both governments. The Obama administration faced the departure of someone whose defection had been considered an intelligence coup. Iran described Amiri's desire to the leave the United States as a setback for American efforts, but Amiri may have compromised the secrecy of Iran's nuclear endeavors.

via washingtonpost.com

I have a feeling his "hero's welcome" didn't last long after the cameras were gone. Won't surprise me if he is in an "accident" in the near future after his government is through debriefing him.

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High Expectations = Low Serenity ... Low Expectations = High Serenity

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BP: No oil leaking into Gulf from busted well - Yahoo! News

A tightly fitted cap was successfully keeping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in three months, BP said Thursday. The victory — long awaited by weary residents along the coast — is the most significant milestone yet in BP's effort to control one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.

The news elicited joy mixed with skepticism from wary Gulf Coast residents following months of false starts, setbacks and failed attempts. Alabama Gov. Bob Riley's face lit up when he heard the oil flow had stopped.

"That's great. I think a lot of prayers were answered today," said Riley.

The stoppage came 85 days, 16 hours and 25 minutes after the first report April 20 of an explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 workers and triggered the spill.

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Consumer Reports Says iPhone 4 Has Design Flaw - NYTimes.com

On Monday, Consumer Reports, America’s trusted source of product reviews, said it would not recommend the iPhone 4 because of a hardware flaw with its antenna that sometimes resulted in dropped calls. The independent consumer magazine also cast doubt on Apple’s recent explanation that a software bug had caused the widely reported problem. Apple did not return requests for comment.

Consumer Reports did not slap the iPhone 4 with a “don’t buy” warning, which it sometimes issues for shoddy or unsafe products. But it said that because of the design flaw, it would not recommend it as it did the previous version of the iPhone, the 3GS.

The next question is, Will any of Apple’s customers even care?

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Star Wars™ voices now available for TomTom devices

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There are videos of Yoda and Darth Vader recording for TomTom in the studio. Hilarious.

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Case of the Mondays

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Google Maps mobile (text only) page for Driving Directions with Kindle

1. Press the Menu button and select "Experimental" option at the bottom.

2. Click on "Basic Web."

3. At the Web browser page (although it may take you to bookmarks page instead),

the screen may show "Advanced" or "Desktop" at top center as your browsing mode.  However, "Basic mode" will work with these text-only directions and is generally faster than "Advanced" or "Desktop" mode" when you don't need to use the non-Basic mode. (The 'Desktop' word is used by DX's)  You can press Menu/Settings to choose "Basic" if you want, but it's ok either way.

  TIP 1.  If you've been busy on the Kindle, it might be good to press MENU botton, select Settings option here and click on "Clear Cache" to have more memory available for the web-browsing session.  Not necessary though.

Press MENU button to choose "Go to Top" or "Enter URL"

These get you to the top line to type a link or URL

4. TYPE:
maps.google.com/m/directions

5. Five-way to the right until you get "GoTo" and then press down on that.

That should fetch the Google maps text directions page for you.

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Create Your Own Cloud of Ebooks with Calibre + Calibre OPDS + Dropbox | Dear Author

Your Own Cloud of Ebooks with Calibre + Calibre OPDS + Dropbox

14. Feb, 2010 | by Jane | 88 CommentsPrint This Post

The big movement seems toward ebooks in the cloud but if you go with Google or Kindle or some other service, you are stuck with their rules of access. You can create your own cloud, however, and control your own library. Further, you can set up your cloud for free using open source programs and a free account at dropbox.

This cloud set up allows you to have access, either by webbrowser or by iPhone/iTouch, to your entire ebook catalog from anywhere you can get internet connection, whether by wifi or cellular access.  The catalog generated is incredibly feature rich.  You can browse your catalog by series, tags, author, title, and most recent additions. You can look up a book on Goodreads or check out the wikipage for an author.

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My New Car: 2009 Ford Fusion SE V6

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Going to the ford dealer to get my explorer appraised and probably buy a car

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Finding Kindle Resources - Kindle Ready

Blogkindle

Blogkindle blog offers daily news about the Kindle, eBooks, E Ink, and other related topics. There are well over 30 categories to search, including such topics as Free Kindle Books, Kindle Accessories, Kindle Thoughts, Kindle Tips and Tricks, and Kindle Applications. There is a very useful Kindle International Coverage Map that shows the strength of wireless coverage for the Kindle around the world. There is also a chart that details by country if there is wireless available, if you can purchase blogs, the typical price of a book, if tax is included, how many books are available under $5.99, and how many total books are available.

Kindle Boards

Kindle Boards is a blog dedicated to all things Kindle. There is a very active user community, and the site boasts over 9,000 registered members and over 1.5 million pageviews a month. The user forum offers many discussions on the Kindle that you can join in or learn from. Topics range from Book Reviews and Recommendations to Kindle Apps to Kindle Reviews. On the website, you can also find tips and tricks for the Kindle and a Top 10 page that shows Kindle-related top-sellers on Amazon. There is also a blog on the site, which discusses the latest Kindle news.

Kindle User’s Guide

This is a handy link to the latest edition of Amazon’s Kindle User’s Guide. It covers how to get started with your Kindle, getting to know Kindle content, reading on your Kindle, searching on your Kindle, the Kindle Store, accessing the web, and Kindle settings. It also includes phone numbers and e-mail address for Kindle support if something goes wrong with your device.

Kindlechat

Kindlechat is a blog that discusses the latest Kindle news. It started in November 2007, not long after Amazon first released the Kindle. It has an extensive archive of topics related to the Kindle. Some of the most popular information found on the site includes ‘How to fill your Kindle for Free,’ ‘An Alternate Kindle Charger,’ ‘How hard is it to return an eBook?,’ and ‘How to skip more than 2 page on a Kindle.’ You can also access a number of Kindle reviews on the site and get help for your Kindle questions on the Kindle Support page.

A Kindle World blog

According to the author of A Kindle World blog, “This blog will explore the capabilities of this device with its immediate access to the entire global Net, through its 24/7 wireless feature. There will be ongoing tutorials and guides for little-known features and latest information on the Kindle and its competitors. Questions are welcome.” You can even have this blog delivered directly to your Kindle.

Kindle Review blog

The ireaderreview blog is dedicated to helping people decide if a Kindle is the right eReader for them and how to make the most out of their Kindle should they decide to buy. You can find numerous reviews on the site as well as handy tips and tricks for the Kindle. There is also a Free Kindle Books section of blog, which provides links to sites where you can find free content for your Kindle.

Amazon Communities and User Reviews

The Amazon site itself is a rich resource for impartial information on the Kindle. There are a number of forums you can join on Amazon to discuss various aspects of the Kindle experience. Just visit Customer Communities on Amazon and search for Kindle. The Kindle Community lists over 18,000 contributors and has thousands of discussions you can join. On the product detail page of both the Kindle and the Kindle DX there are hundreds of reviews of the devices from users themselves. These reviews can be quite helpful in learning the issues people have with the Kindle, as well as the many positive aspects of the device.

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