Web Deployment Package

I have never worried about deploying a website. But it takes more and more time, so I have looked today for Web Deployment Package. This is a feature of VS2010 (or is it already included in VS2008?) this looks as a nice feature. I will analyse this in more detail and write the conclusions on this blog. When someone has some tips, let me know;)

Vista folders views keeps changing

An annoying thing in my Vista installation, was that the Folder views from Explorer keeps changing. Finally I have found a solution for it. Propaply this solution was long time ago developed, because Windows 7 is already released. But better late, then never;)

Configsource

A collegua of me sent a while ago a link about ConfigSource. I think this is an easy way for dividing the web.config is some logical parts. So I am goiing to use this in my (private) projects. Unfortunately the external file must be in a relative physical path to the application because of security reasons.

Update:The attribute configSource works only for a complete section and NOT for a single ConfigurationElement.

ToOADate

For a couple of my hobby web sites I use an Access database. When I upgrade these website to ASP.NET 4.0 Framework I have had also to update some calls to the database for the DateTime columns, I have to use the ToOADate() method.

Repeater: Custom ItemTemplate

When you want to create a custom item template in a repeater you have to readthis article. In this article the css-class and the html depends of the content of the data collection. So you want a different ItemTemplate for another row.

Web.config customErrors element

In de web.config of a (web) application it is possible te configure the customErrors element. Mostly for development I want to see the details of the errors so I can fix these quickly. But when the application runs for end-users I want to be informed about these errors and the users sees a friendly message "there is something wrong, this is registrerd".

ildasm.exe

In the command prompt of Visual Studio it is possible to call the windows tool
ildasm.exe. With this tool the assembly manifest is readable and so the related assemblies can be retrieved.