Just recently I decided to upgrade my development machine at the office from Windows XP to Windows Vista. Taking into consideration the ability to play around with the new IIS7, as well as take the opportunity to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite. I can say I'm happy that I did, I even did a clean install since Vista Enterprise did not support an upgrade from XP. Then the fun started. After spending a day and a half re-installing all of my development tools, MS Office, hunting down new drivers for the video card, sound card as well as running Windows Updates, etc I was up and running without a care in the world. More...

While using Infragistics NetAdvantage for ASP.NET I noticed a bug while working with the UltraGauge (WebGauge) control. It turns out that if you disable session state for the page that this control is on or for the entire web application as I had done for performance reasons, you get a nasty error:

"Session state can only be used when enableSessionState is set to true, either in a configuration file or in the Page directive. Please also make sure that System.Web.SessionStateModule or a custom session state module is included in the <configuration>\<system.web>\<httpModules> section in the application configuration." More...

First of all, I have to give a major thanks to the BlogEngine.NET team. Without their amazing contributions to the .NET development community it would have taken me weeks in my spare time to get this blog up and running; that is with ½ the functionality because frankly, like most developers I know, I typically don't have spare time. This site is running off of the latest build, 1.3, and has a custom theme that I created for my own taste, which thanks to the team and the ease of the CSS compliant design, took only a couple of hours of development. If you like it, feel free to download it and use it (with proper credit of course ). You can download it here: Waves.zip (462.14 kb). More...