February 2010 Entries
I had a pretty rough week attempting to get the Oracle client installed on my Windows 7 – 64bit machine. I’m going resist the temptation to throw stones, but let’s just say it was a frustrating week. Today I went to the Server Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 to do some work with the ADO.NET Entity Framework. When attempting to connect the designer to my local SQL Server, I immediately received this An unexpected error occurred in the Oracle Data Provider for .NET. Please contact the provider vendor to resolve this problem. Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh ...
My company issued me a new Dell Latitude E6400. It’s a fine machine, and I like it very much. Yesterday our system tech hands me the machine brand spanking new with our base company image on it (Windows 7 Enterprise – 64 bit). My plan was take the image on this machine and copy it to the solid state hard drive that I have in my personal laptop. I don’t need this Lenovo T61, but it’s got a blazing fast SSD in it and I want to use that – not this old school SATA thing that came w/ my...
Fiddler is a great tool for inspecting HTTP traffic. If you’re building a web services based application or AJAX intensive web application, you’ll need to check this out. Fiddler has been around for a long time and there’s a lot of good content out on the net about how to use this. There are several gotchas with this tool – like how it behaves with local addresses (i.e. localhost, 127.0.0.1, etc.). Be sure to read up on all of that if you’re new to Fiddler.
One lesson I learned today while playing with the latest CTP of ADO.NET Data Services, is...
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Are you getting 404’s on your deployed site when it works perfectly on your development machine? There’s a number of hidden gotchas when deploying an ASP.NET MVC application to a shared hosting providers. My provider of choice is Webhost4life.com. Here’s a list of issues I ran into and the solutions for each. IIS 6.0 vs IIS 7.0 There’s a number of issues you need to be aware of here. If you using IIS 6 -- and if you’re on Webhost4life there’s a good chance you are – then you need to make sure you’re virtual directory is...