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Very often we are confused by the authentication and impersonation settings in asp.net web config, coupling that with the settings of IIS and NTFS file system, to have a clear idea of who has access of what of your resources just seems an insurmountable chain of hurdles. Read the rest of this entry »

The reason why I need to debug a deployed asp.net application is there are many things that are involved in a deployed situation and however are missing in the development environment like the impersonation debugging. Read the rest of this entry »

As xml is main format of data exchange between systems, being comfortable of navigation of xml data is very important for xml handling. There are many ways a search can be performed on an xml document, but here I am trying to demo how to perform xml search using xpath query and linq to xml which in my view are two of the easiest and most clean way of handling complex xml data, the real scenario could be mix of both, I deliberately did this in order to show how each mechanism is working without each other and hoping that under some restrictive circumstances there is still one option left to use. Read the rest of this entry »

As a programmer you might have to manage several wordpress installs for your customers, when problem comes up, you also need to quickly setup a development environment to pinpoint the cause through debugging. In essence it is an issue of backup and restore of an application, by putting it into a repository of version control system, it gives us a safer option we can provide to our customer, and more importantly without a version control system it is impossible for multiple users to work on same wordpress project including customers who are making content contributions Read the rest of this entry »

One of the solution of html to pdf conversion for .Net is using iTextSharp, and thanks to this article where a html to pdf builder class is provided to make the use of iTextSharp bit easier. But I found that the iTextSharp(v5040) has very basic css support. If you do not have complex css structure or styling of your html doc is mainly done through in-line markup, I do not see any problem about this solution, but if you want to print a heavily css styled html content which unfortunately is the most likely scenario, this solution is slightly unsatisfactory. Read the rest of this entry »