By Ben Noyce on
6/2/2011 1:29 PM
Another day, another nugget - this was too was so obscure I had to share. We recently migrated to use Amazon's AWS and EC2 (VPC) for a great deal of our infrastructure. Overall, fantastic - we can respond and build complete environments in hours. However, we started to see random network connectivity and latency issues with certain machines - they would be available for a couple hours at a time and then completely stop responding to *ANY* network requests. The only way to recover was to reboot the instance and start over...
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By Ben Noyce on
11/16/2010 11:17 AM
Another offering of random web deployment goodness...If you have been developing web applications for some time and turn the key to install the solution on a 64-bit system, in particular one hosted on a Windows 2008 solution, you may run into any one of the following errors (even if you are doing any Any CPU build):...
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By Ben Noyce on
5/22/2010 8:00 AM
If you have been successfully deploying web setup projects built in Visual Studio 2008 and migrate to VS2010 to find that your resulting installations require .NET 4, and correctly setting the pre-requisites on the installation doesn't help, this entry is for you...
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By Ben Noyce on
5/4/2009 10:13 PM
Not too long ago, after uninstalling a trial of a .NET licensing component (that shall remain nameless), I started receiving random errors within Visual Studio 2008. It wasn't until I received the following error from building a deployment project that a solution became clear...
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By Ben Noyce on
2/27/2009 9:41 PM
****UPDATED FOR USE ON GODADDY 2/2009****
Not too long ago, I spent FARRRR to much time trying to figure out how to do a manual install of DotNetNuke on my GoDaddy hosting account. After MUCH pain and frustration, I finally figured it out. However, for those lucky saps out there who don't want to experience this and simply get something working within 15 minutes, you can find the solution here and regurgitated below; I have validated it with...
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By Ben Noyce on
11/20/2008 8:58 AM
So, its been a while since I have had the opportunity to blog, but this one was obscure enough that I had to share a little bit of 'know'. Recently I built a staging environment for my company to be able to push our applications through typical deployment 'tiers', and decided that Windows Server 2008 and IIS7 would be a jolly challenge for the web environment. So, off I went installing the minimum amount of information needed in order to deploy our compiled web setup MSIs.
The time came to install the...
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By Ben Noyce on
2/13/2008 8:29 PM
=== UPDATE ===
Although the solution below is fine and dandy, this one is MUCH better...
XmlDocument document = new XmlDocument();
return document.CreateTextNode("YB If you want to add the text as the inner text of another XmlNode, simply add the XmlText result from the CreateTextNode(...) via the node's AppendChild(...) method.
Enjoy.
=== ORIGINAL ENTRY ===
Typically, when dealing with text in XML it is best practice to wrap the text secion in a CDATA element to ensure that...
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By Ben Noyce on
11/13/2007 12:57 PM
At some point in time when you are learning to leverage TFS, you will notice the lack of graphical support to remove projects that you no longer wish to have in your repository - sure, you could use the ol' "command line", but why? I found a great resource from a gentleman by the name of Julien Lavigne, who shared the source to his graphical solution found here. I took it one step further and made...
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By Ben Noyce on
7/27/2007 12:47 PM
So, if you have ever 'hap-hazardly' renamed a sharepoint 2007 host machine (without preparing sharepoint for the event), you will notice that sharepoint will refuse to work and documentation is 'skinny' to say the least. Here is what worked for me on a windows 2003 host (mine was in a farm):
1. Make sure Windows 2003 SP2 is installed.
2. Locate the 'stsadm.exe' file (e.g. :\program files\common files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\bin)
3. Open a command window, navigate the the location...
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By Ben Noyce on
7/24/2007 1:41 PM
OK, I wasn't going to place anything opinionated on this blog, but I found the following article and thought it deserved at least some daylight...
This letter was written by Charles Grennel and his comrades, veterans of the Global War On Terror. Grennel is an Army Reservist who spent two years in Iraq and was a principal in putting together the first Iraq elections in January 2005.
They wrote it to Jill Edwards, student at the University of Washington, who did not want to honor Medal of Honor winner...
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