http://sanjayuttam.com:/wordpress Predominantly .NET Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:15:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow, that was fun. I just spent a solid two hours trying to get my pretty new WCF 4.0 service running, using the online REST template on IIS7.5. It worked without any isssue in the debugger, and, let's just say the error messages were less than helpful. ... http://sanjayuttam.com:/wordpress/index.php/wcf-4-0/wcf-4-0-iis7-7-5-http-404/ Ah, there was a time early on during the days of classic ASP when I absolutely despised JavaScript.  I'm not sure if it was because my untrained eyes invariably missed the periods, or my clumsy fingers were not used to the case-sensitivity, or...I just didn't quite "get it".  Actually, it ... http://sanjayuttam.com:/wordpress/index.php/javascript/better-living-through-callbacks/ In the first post in this series, I provided a little info on the HandleError attribute in MVC 1.  In case you don’t want to flip back, the HandleError attribute can decorate a method or a class and will push your users to a generic errors view provided customErrors is ... http://sanjayuttam.com:/wordpress/index.php/c-sharp/c-sharp-code-examples/error-handling-in-asp-net-mvc-1-part-2-of-2/ I’ve been using ASP.NET MVC Release 1 for a bit now, and while it’s definitely not for every application, I happen to like it quite a bit.  There has been a lot of activity on MS-centric blogs regarding MVC, but there are still some really mundane tasks that there could ... http://sanjayuttam.com:/wordpress/index.php/c-sharp/error-handling-in-asp-net-mvc-1-part-1-of-2/ It took a bit for me to get comfortable enough with LINQ-to-objects to write ‘queries’ off the top of my head…but once you’re used to it you realize it’s much more concise, easier to interpret/read, and well..it’s less code.  Here are some real quick examples… This first example selects ... http://sanjayuttam.com:/wordpress/index.php/quick-tip/get-the-index-of-a-given-item-using-linq-quick-tip/ I’ll keep it short and sweet.  Was browsing this new twitter thing that all the kids are playin’ with and I saw an link to this story: You Deleted Your Cookies?  Think Again.  Short version: You can create cookie-like objects with flash, that: Don’t get ... http://sanjayuttam.com:/wordpress/index.php/misc/if-you-value-your-privacy-do-this-now/ With the release of .NET 3.5 SP1, MS has released a sub-set of the Dundas charting component. They also put together a neat little solution that’ll let you run a number of examples/samples locally so you can get your hands dirty. If you’re looking to do any work with the ... http://sanjayuttam.com:/wordpress/index.php/c-sharp/asp-net-charting-rendering-options/ I have been playing with both the iHttpHandler and iHttpAsyncHandler lately, and I came across some interesting information.  There are a couple of blog posts out there explaining when to use one over the other (see Mads Kristensen's post here, or Vlad Hrybok's post here) So when does it ... http://sanjayuttam.com:/wordpress/index.php/misc/ihttphandler-vs-ihttpasynchandler/ In the post below I am going to run down a short-list of some of the less-popular performance tips and the reasoning behind them.  There are loads of blog postings and articles on asp.net performance enhancements, and I urge you to check those out as well.  Onto the good stuff... ... http://sanjayuttam.com:/wordpress/index.php/c-sharp/the-uncommon-asp-net-performance-tips/ For my current project I needed to create some logic for users to upload an image...only problem was the image had to be of a fixed size, and therefore aspect ratio.  Enter the need for an image cropper.  You've seen them before on a number of sites, like linkedIn, facebook, ... http://sanjayuttam.com:/wordpress/index.php/c-sharp/c-sharp-code-examples/asp-net-image-photo-cropper-in-c/