Note to self - a blog by Lucas Canavan
Ramblings of a .NET web developer, IT generalist and advocate of the Windows Azure cloud platform
Storing database connection strings for Azure cloud services (including encypting the connection strings)
As my Surface didn't arrive on launch day, I had nothing better to do on a Friday night so...
Date: 10/26/2012
Powershell script to re-install Nuget packages
Here's a simple Powershell script I wrote to re-install the Nuget packages that are associated with...
Date: 11/23/2011
Using a Windows Azure startup script to prevent your site from being shutdown
Did you know that, by default, IIS will shutdown your site upon the following events?a) After being...
Date: 09/30/2011
My SharePoint 2010 developer machine build post
I've built a few machines for SharePoint 2010 development lately so I thought I'd make a note of my...
Date: 07/09/2010
Azure ASP.NET to SQL Hello World! on the Introductory offer
“Inspired” by a pub discussion with a mate last night, I finally got around to doing a...
Date: 06/05/2010
Interesting freely available content from recent web conference
Thought I’d share that I noticed that the videos from the sessions at MIX10 are freely available at:...
Date: 04/03/2010
SharePoint Application Page Button Click Not Working After First Click
I was recently working on a SharePoint Application Page and encountered an issue whereby button...
Date: 04/02/2010
Skip buttons weren't working after installing Win7 RC
After installing Win7 RC on my production Media Center box (ie the box I literally can't watch TV...
Date: 05/23/2009
Building a Win7/2008 R2 box that boots off .vhd's
A cool new feature in Windows7 & Server 2008 R2 is the ability to boot from a .vhd file! Having...
Date: 05/23/2009
SQL updates failing on WSS Developer VM
I noticed SQL updates (KB960089 but also SQL SP3) were failing to apply on the WSS Developer VM....
Date: 05/15/2009
Unexpected prompts for integrated authentication on WSS Developer VM
After installing all outstanding updates on the WSS Developer VM I started getting unexpected...
Date: 05/15/2009
Troubleshooting 101
It’s been far too long between blog posts so here’s a post and a promise to blog more frequently......
Date: 04/13/2009
ASP.NET instrumentation (tracing) to a file
It's often helpful to instrument your code to help with troubleshooting, etc. Instrumentation is...
Date: 04/13/2009
Lucascan's top 5 tips for a healthy ASP.NET application
These tips are reasonably well-known and have been blogged by others. However, considering how often...
Date: 01/06/2008
.NET 2.0 WebException "The underlying connection was closed: A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server"
I've been working with a few customers lately that have been experiencing this WebException that has...
Date: 08/16/2007
Reducing Netmon trace file size via capturing only a single port using a capture filter
This is a handy tip to reduce the file size of your Netmon traces. This is particularlly useful when...
Date: 08/15/2007
Using Microsoft Network Monitor (Netmon) to capture a network trace
- Download and install Netmon from the following URL. Note, the password for the .zip is "trace"....
Date: 08/15/2007