Another little thing that I stumbled across - when trying to hide a control from anonymous users, I just tried the following: Visible='<%#Page.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated %>' Now I would have expected that to just work. But when I viewed my page, the controls were still visible. After a b... [More]

I stumbled across a strange little thing the other day. I wanted to create a control that would show a list of users and if they had entered an email address, I of course wanted to show the address in one of the columns. I decided to go for a GridView - but I just couldn't get a HyperLinkField to ... [More]

A good friend of mine contacted me over MSN yesterday with a really strange problem (or so, he thought). Here's the scenario. He had made a .NET web service that exposes information from an internal system. Everything worked perfectly well in his development environment, but when he tried to publis... [More]

I find that I very often find myself sitting in a situation where I've been developing an ASP.NET website or other database-driven web application, making use of ASP.NET 2.0's membership and role providers etc. When I get to the point of having to publish the site to my shared hosting provider,... [More]

Okay, admitted, it's my own fault. I went skiing on Saturday at a small ski resort in Sweden called Isaberg. It's not that big but it's perfect for a one-day outing if you get a ski-craving. I'm not (at all) the best skiier in the world. Truthfully I only really tried skiing twice before in my life... [More]