Monday, February 16, 2009
HTTP Handlers and modules are necessary components for any given web app. While it's conceivable that a developer may never develop a Handler/Module ever, there may be legacy handlers/modules that may exist or third party applications that requires to use them. More information on Handlers and Modules here. So recently, I ran into an issue where all of my old .ashx and custom handlers blew up when running under IIS. I had upgraded to Vista from XP and being that the web application was dependant upon alot of Handler calls, this proved to be the latest challenge in the life
Monday, November 10, 2008
I am moving to Vista. Reluctantly at first, but I've found this operating system to be quite feature rich and powerful; and so far I see no reason why to uninstall it (6 weeks and counting). It was probably the exposure to the volume of apple commercials that convinced me that Microsoft and Vista were the plague -- and as a developer I should do everything to avoid it. With that said, I've dev'd primarily on my XP instance in the past, and one of the tools that I need on occasion is the handy remote desktops application available only in
