Web developer checklist (check best practices, performance, usability etc.)
De chrome extension at http://webdevchecklist.com/ lets you automatically check your website on best practices, performance, usability etc. The result of a site check:
Tag: ASP .NET
ASP .NET MVC4 / Web Api – Create users and roles for SimpleMembershipProvider with PowerShell and C#
If you are using the SimpleMembershipProvider for FormAuthentication in a ASP .NET MVC4 / Web Api project, the following PowerShell / C# code can be used to create and delete users and roles. Create an
Fixing – A first chance exception of type ‘System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException’ occurred in System.Configuration.dll
After some NuGet package update, my Web.config file was altered and contained two entries in [connectionStrings] with the same name: <connectionStrings> <add name="DefaultConnection" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" connectionString="data source=s02.dev.nl\v2012;initial catalog=Test;Integrated Security=SSPI;Pooling=False;" /> <add name="DefaultConnection" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=aspnet-Test.UI-20130328110613;Integrated
Fix: Forms authentication timeout after 20 minutes, even if timeout is set to 1440 minutes
If you are using ASP .NET with forms authentication and set the forms authentication to 1440 minutes, this authentication will by default expire after 20 minutes, when the server gets no request during these 20
How to set DropDownList.SelectedValue for unit testing in ASP .NET web forms.
If you want to set the [SelectedValue] property of a DropDownList in a unit test, you must first add items to the [Items] property of the DropDownList. If you don’t add items, setting the SelectedValue
Simplest way to add forms authentication to you Web.config in ASP .NET, when using AspNetSqlMembershipProvider
If you’ve got a website and this website contains a Login.aspx and a Default.aspx page in the root. The simplest way to deny all unauthenticated user access to the website is adding the following to
Solving: Windows Authentication fails, when using a host header and accessing IIS on the local box.
If you are developing an ASP .NET website that uses Windows Authentication and add a host header in IIS to the ASP .NET web application, accessing the site on the local box, might not work.
How to determine the absolute path to the root of the website / web service in the Global.asax
If you want to use the absolute path to the root of the website / web service in the Global.asax you can use the property: System.Web.HttpRuntime.AppDomainAppPath
Solving Unable to generate a temporary class error CS2001 en CS2008
Error System.InvalidOperationException: Unable to generate a temporary class (result=1). error CS2001: Source file 'C:\Windows\TEMP\beo4ycyh.0.cs' could not be found error CS2008: No inputs specified at System.Xml.Serialization.Compiler.Compile(Assembly parent, String ns, XmlSerializerCompilerParameters xmlParameters, Evidence evidence) at
Solving: Could not load file or assembly ‘App_Web_squ1ikqu, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified in .NET 4.0
After we virtualized a production machine and booted this virtualized machine, .NET reported some errors after re-registering .NET 4.0 on IIS7 these error where resolved, but one WCF service kept on logging the error: Could